The Road

I am really enjoying reading The Road so far. I think it’s really interesting, and some of the topics that were brought up in class, about the book, really made me think. One topic was: is suicide really that bad when faced with a situation like this? When I was reading the book, I thought it was selfish of the mother to just leave her family like she did. When the point that would it be worse to suffer rather than just ending your life was brought up, I began to finally see why she would do something like that. I don’t necessarily agree with the decision she made, but I do understand why she did it.

            Another thing that this book made me think about is what we take for granted. This man and the boy don’t have anything except for a few items. They don’t have a proper home or access to food like we do. I think this book can help people realize that we shouldn’t take these things for granted like many do.

            Something else I found interesting was that this book is written very similarly to The Blind Assassin, which I read as one of my outside reading books first semester. The subject is very different, but I find this book easier to follow because the books have very similar writing styles in some parts.