The three quotes from The Road

This time, I started to find interesting and very exciting about this book while I was reading it which is very good. Of course it was still hard but there were some more things happening in this part so that I could really concentrate and keep focusing on the book. There were some parts that I was really impressed and I would like to talk specifically about three quotes from the book.

First quote;
“You put it in your mouth and point it up. Do it quick and hard. Do you understand? Stop crying. Do you understand?
……. Say yes I do Papa. Yes I do Papa” -pg 113
Actually this part was one of the most touching and sad scene that I’ve read until now. Nobody would know how it feels like to teach one’s own son to commit suiside. The situatioin was so bad that there was no choice for the man to make. Maybe it was the best idea the man could do for the son because it would have been better to die rather than to be eaten by cannibals. However, it really pains me to think of how much the boy felt terrified. Imagine your father pushing a revolver into and forcing you to kill yourself. It’s terrible. Anyways, he decided not to, but it still affected to boy a lot. We can see that the boy was trying to avoid the pistol on page 137.
“ If you don’t want to hold the lamo you’ll have to take the pistol.
I’ll hold the lamp”
I think that this part shows how much the boy was terrified and affected by the situation.

Second quote;
“ That’s okay. I think there may be things in there and we have to take a look. There’s no place else to go. This is it.” -pg 137
This was when the man and the boy find the bunker filled with ‘everything’. However, they encountered with a serious danger once before in the similar bunker. So when the man tried to go and check the inside of the bunker, the boy begged him not to go. What I noticed was that they (especially the man) really were in a fix which means that there was nothing elso to do but put themselves into a danger to search for food. The man didn’t know what kind of obstacles might be under the bunker, but he had to do it. The man is very strong and brave, I think.

Third quote;
“Because we’re the good guys.
Yes.
And we’re carrying the fire.” –pg 129
“Well I don’t think we’re likely to meet any good guys on the road.
We’re on the road.” –pg 151
One of the most frequently mentioned words in this book is ‘the good guys’ which comes from the boy’s lines. Sometimes I feel like the boy clings to being ‘good guys’ because his judgement of others is whether he/she is good or not. He believes that they are good guys so that they don’t do anything bad like bad guys do. We can find this from the second quote. When the man said the there would not be any good guys on the road, the boy said that they were there. It means they, the good guys are still on the road. I came to wonder if the boy really know what exactly ‘being good guys’ means. Well I don’t even know exactly, but I guess it’s kind of consolation so that the boy could withstand all the terrible situation before him. Beside, the words ‘carrying the fire’ also means the similar thing. Anyways I really pity him in his distress.