The Road setting

The setting for my book is very simple however the description is so detailed that it brings a basic setting obvious importance. "The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening." Page 15. This quote is a the beginning of the story describing the dark and dangerous world they now live in as the struggle traveling on a road of uncertainty. As the story progresses we see what is perhaps the most important part of the setting, we see nothing. He describes a broken and deserted land covered in a blanket of ash gray in the sunless world. The emptiness of the road is what truly makes the story showing in depth the relationship between the boy and his father as well as the desperation felt in a world of nothing.