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- He grabs the pistol and then sees a group of people coming down the road. They are all hooded and masked and carrying lengths of pipe as clubs, and behind them is a diesel truck. The man hides the cart and then he and the boy run off into the trees with their knapsacks.
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Apr 11, 2015 · Answers 1. Walking into house they looked for signs of danger but failed to see the signs of life that had once lived within those walls.
The boy falls asleep and then the man sees four people, three men and a pregnant woman, coming down the road. They cross a bridge and disappear down the road. The man’s cough gets worse, bringing greater attention to his respiratory ailment and the frailty of his health.
He feels they have essentially killed the thief. The boy is also fixated on a “little boy” they see along the road. These impulses from the boy show that he wants to help the remaining people of Earth, not run from them, and that the boy has a different idea about what it will take to survive.
Sep 26, 2006 · Clamped to the handle of the cart was a chrome motorcycle mirror that he used to watch the road behind them. He shifted the pack higher on his shoulders and looked out over the wasted country.
The next morning the man whispers a vague prayer, asking to see God so he can “throttle” and “damn” him. Then they set out on the road and pass through an abandoned city. They see a shriveled corpse in a doorway and the man tells the boy that “the things you put into your head are there forever.”
The man remembers the boy being born by candlelight while they watched cities burning on the horizon. In the present the boy asks the man if he had any friends. The man affirms that he did, but says that they are all dead now. He assures the boy again that they are going south.
Earlier in The Road, the man usually instructs his son to turn his eyes away from the gruesome corpses they often see along the journey, and the boy wants to help people they meet. Here, they see the corpses of travelers who have been burned alive on the road's tar.
