The Road- The world

The world in the road is a post apocolyptic (most likely nuclear apocoyptic) where humanity faces extinction yet nobody in the world seems to care about humanity. Everyone in The Road is an opritunist meaning that they are not worries about others and they will take any opritunities they see to increase their own chances of survival. Nobody in this world is exempt from this rule even the protagonists are with eachother for their own survival, but not their physical survival but they mental health. It says that they are each other's entire world meaning that without each other they would lose their will to live and cease to do so. The world is nearly barren and seeing other people is rare and most often you do not want to see other people for they range from murderous raiders to cannibals. It seems the only people in the world who aren't insane and evil are the man and the boy. They are help together by the bond of father and son, they probably aren't completely flawed but they are not self rightous they are only trying to be good and stay alive for the sake of the other person. Strangely the world in the road is told from an oblivious point of view where the speaker doesn't actually know or care why and how the world got to this point, it only cares about the man and the boy. The speaker is like this because the man and the boy only care about their own survival and not the survival of the world as a whole. I like this point of view because instead of trying to create a large all encompasing world it creates a small world where there are only two important thing (the portagonists) so the reader cares more about each of these characters because they seem to be the only beacon of hope in the desolate world of The Road.