The Road Pages 53-73

Parallel: My parallel is the connection between the son and his mom. Though she left him at a young age, she and the son both have thoughts of death. After the apocolypse, the wife/mother is having a conversation with her husband and how she wants to die and should have died. In the end, she kills herself with obsidian, which is a glass volcanic rock. After seeing his mothers death, all he wishes for is to die so he could be with his mom.

Contrast: "All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain"(54). The word provenance means "the orgin". The sentence talks about the things you hold special in your heart comes from pain. I thought this sentence was a contrast because the things that are special in your heart are usually things you enjoy or love. Having everything you enjoy come from pain gives the things you enjoy a dark background or meaning.

Questions:

I did not understand the part where they encounter the other man (62-66).

Is the boy dying? (69-72)