The Road Characters

In this book the two main characters, the dad and the son, it doesn't tell us their names. I looked it up online and all it talks about is the dad and the son or the little boy, it never says either of their names once. At the beginning of the book the author gives you the feel that the dad and the son have a special bond and are for each other very very much. "What would you do if I died? If I died I would want to die too. So you could be with me? Yes. So I could be with you" (McCarthy 11). Throughout the book, you can see that this special bond still exist even when times get rough they pull through and love each other very much. In the middle of the book, while they were walking down the road, they spot a gang and book it to the woods and hide in the grass. If the gang finds them, they are as good as gone. "He slung their knapsacks over his shoulder and they tore through the crumbling bracken. The boy was terrified. Run, he whispered. Run. He looked back. The truck had rumbled into view. Men standing in the bed looking out. The boy fell and he pulled him up. It's all right, he said. Come on" (McCarthy 61). While they were hiding, a gang member starts too walk over by them and you could tell he was about to turn into dad protecting mode. "He cocked the pistol and held it on the man and the man stood one hand out at his side, the dirty crumpled paint mask that he wore sucking in and out. Just keep coming. He looked at the road. Don't look back there. Look at me. If you call out you're dead" (McCarthy 63).  I think we will be seeing this side of the dad a lot more throughout the course of the book. My thematic statement for this book is, if you care for other people, often they will do the same for you. This develops the theme because the dad is always watching out for his son and other people so nothing bad will ever happen to them. "I with I was with my mom. He didn't answer. He sat beside the small figure wrapped in the quilts and blankets. After a while he said: You mean you wish you were dead. Yes. You musnt say that. But I do. Don't say it. It's a bad thing to say. I can't help it. I know but you have to. How do I do it? I don't know" (McCarthy 55). The dad cares a lot about his son and would never want anything to happen to him.