The Road

I love this book! I started reading it and I was really confused because I had no idea what was going on but then I realized that was the point, and I slowly started catching on… I was hooked. I think The Road is really deep and I love a lot of the quotes in it. “You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget”, I underlined this quote in my book because I liked it, and it’s just really true to a lot of things in life. In the book, the boy is seeing so many things that young kids don’t need to see and as much as he doesn’t want to remember them… he will. When the man is having flashbacks he’s remembering the bad things about his former life with his wife and such, we see only a glimpse of the good memories when they hold hands in the movie theaters. Another quote that I liked was “The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That Ever is no time at all.” I think it’s sad that the boy has to go through a life like this, that he says he doesn’t care if he dies and he doesn’t even know how long he’ll live his life. I think McCarthy does a really good job at building the suspense in the book, you never know what’s going to pop out of the woods or what’s going to be in the random towns they come across. If it’s not suspenseful then it’s very descriptive and detailed which normally I get really bored with in books but for some reason I really like reading all the details of this book.