At the first sign of light, the man leaves the boy to study the land around them. He thinks it is October, but hasn’t kept a calendar for years, indicating that the world has been in this desolate state for an extended period of time. He and the boy are […]
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Man struck by lightning The man and boy come upon a burnt man on the road, a man who’s been struck by lightning. They follow him for a short time, but the man eventually sits down in the road and they overtake him. The boy wants to help, but the […]
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The boy goes unnamed throughout the novel. As the man and boy travel on the road, the boy is the only source of light in his father’s life. Similarly, the man is all that the boy has, and the boy doesn’t want to live unless his father remains with him. […]
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The man goes unnamed throughout the novel. He is the boy’s father, his papa, and believes that he has been entrusted by God to keep the boy safe and to protect him from harm and the evils in the world — even if that means killing him before the bad […]
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While the boy sleeps, the man reflects upon one of his dreams of a creature with dead eyes. The man’s dreams play a large role throughout the novel; the man tells both himself and the boy that good dreams are to be feared because they indicate a form of acceptance, […]
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