The Road
Why does the man choose to live while the mother does not?
The road
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The road
Mother knows the world is dead and that whatever is left alive holds more horror than can be imagined. Death is the only salvation in a doomed world. Father cannot bear to see his only treasure simply killed. In his boy, the father sees God: "If he is not the word of God, God never spoke." Father simply cannot bear to see the only light left in the world extinguished.