The Road page 43 Summary

The book is slow to start and abrupt in it's beginning however the writing is extremly descriptive. It starts off with the man wakinjg early in the morning in what is an empty and destroyed world he waits for his sone to wake quietly watching him sleep. The story continues as they travel on and the relationship between the man and his son unfolds showing the codependence between the two charecters. As it goes on they follow the road going south for warmer weather. A critical part of the story is revealed in a flashback of the man and his wife arguing before she leaves. This helps to create a background for the story showing a previous life and the history behind their journey. As they travel they come across a groupd of men traveling in a truck when they are discovered the man shoots and kills the offender. At this point in the story forshadowing seems to hint at devastation in their lives but this early on it is hard to tell.