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Morality in The Road
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Moral Preservation in Death
- Father recognizes limitations
- Boy tries to preserve the Man's moral code
"You promised not to do that, the boy said. (...)
I have to watch you all the time, the boy said.
If you break little promises you'll break big ones. That's what you said.” (10)
Coca Cola
- Only reference to the world before is his father
- Tries to give him a childhood
"I want you to drink it.
It's because I won't ever get to drink another one isn't it?
Ever is a long time.
Okay." (6)
The Old Man
- The Boy sees humanity and the environment different than the father
- Provides for an old man with no reciprocity
- "Eat it, it's good" (52)
- Sanctity of human life
Good
Food In Relation to Morals
"It as an apple. He picked it up and held it to the light. Hard and brown and shriveled (...) Brown and almost tasteless. But an apple." 40
"We wouldn't ever eat anybody, would we?
No of course not. (...)
Because we're the good guys.
Yes."43
"Dear people, thank you for all this food and stuff. We know that you saved it for yourself and if you were here we wouldn't eat it no matter how hungry we were and we're sorry that you didn't get to eat it" 45
Imagery of Food
- Vivid Imagery
- Good Vs Bad
- "They pulled the morels from the ground, small alien looking things that he piled in the hood of the boy's parka. They hiked back out to the road and down to where they'd left the cart and they made camp by the river pool at the falls and washed the earth and ash from the morels and put them to soak in a pan full of water. By the time he had the fire going it was dark and he sliced a handful of the mushrooms on a log for their dinner and scooped them into the frying pan along with the fat pork from a can of beans and set them in the coals to simmer." (12)
Impact of Cannibalism
"Coldness and damp. An ungodly stench. The boy clutched at his coat. He could see part of a stone wall. Clay floor. An old mattress darkly stained. He crouched and stepped down again and held out the light. Huddled against the back wall were naked people, male and female, all trying to hide, shielding their faces with their hands. On the mattress lay a man with his legs gone to the hip and the stumps of them blackened and burnt. The smell was hideous." (34)
Cannibalism
Jocelyn Reid
- Cannibalism is the main defining factor
- Giving up survival, eating their own kind
- Integrity, hope, morals vs. physical survival
Societal Role
- Free of government, religion, and other institutions
- Pre-apocalyptic morality is seen as a subjective concept dictated by society
- Morality turns into self interest due to need for survival
- Due to self interest, the Man sees all the other survivors as enemies
- Moral Code