Week 5

I just finished reading The Road by Cormak McCarthy. The man and the boy stay on the beach of the ocean for a while, and the boy gets a fever. They stay a few days until he is better. Then they go out on the beach a ways together. When the man and the boy come back, everything is gone. Somebody had taken their food, blankets, and tools and left them! The man was furious and sprinted to the road. They find a grain of sand on the left side of the road and started running in that direction. After a while, they found out a skinny man had taken everything and was still trying to get away. The man caught up, threatened with his gun, and took the supplies back. It started to get cold there, even by the ocean, so the man and the boy head even farther south. They pass through a town and just as they were leaving it, the man got hit in the leg with an arrow. The man tipped the cart and shot the guy with the bow, which was up in a building, and the man with the bow died. The mam fixed up his wound and the boy was sad. He had always thought that they were the good guys, the heros. The boy relized that they didn't help people like in all of his father's stories. He relized that they kill people too. The man and the boy keep heading south and the man can't stop coughing. He relizes that he isn't going to make it to another day. He tells the boy this and the boy is really sad. He tells the boy to keep going and find the good guys. He said that he knows that if the boy tries hard enough, he will find good guys and live happily. The man died that night and the boy cried. He wrapped up his father in a blanket and took his gun and headed for the road. The first thing he saw was a man heading for him with a shotgun on his back. He finds out that he is a good guy and goes with him. He lived on and even found out that there are things called fish that live in the rivers.

I think that this book was really sad. I always thought that in the end, the man and the boy would find a town of friendly people and live happily ever after. It was the saddest thing when the man died. After all that he had been through and done for the boy, he still had hope the boy would go on in happiness. It was hard for me to think that the boy was all alone. It made me happy knowing that the boy still found good people to live with, but I still cried at the end of this book.