Glimmering Hope

What would it be like to be on the road, hopeless, enraging… I would like to think that maybe just maybe on the road there is always a glimmer of hope, way off in the distance but still there. Why do the man and the boy keep going, keep walking? There has to be something driving them to continue despite no salvation in site. Maybe just maybe they think there is still a chance, something the man’s wife could not see, that glimmer of hope. I wish that at the end of the book the man could have seen his son saved before he died, then he would have been able to die peacefully knowing that what he had worked so hard to do had finally happened. It’s hard to think what I would be like on the road. Would I be able to see that hope or would I just give up? I wouldn’t know until I was on it. Maybe when at times nearly all their hope was lost they used each other to help keep on going, maybe a companion is what is needed to keep striving toward an uncertain goal. Whatever the reason is I liked the Road because the man and the boy never give up, they keep going with no foreseeable end in sight.

If people knew the story of their life how many would elect to live them?

I think that many would not and many would it all depends on that persons story and what that person is like. A courageous person with a horrible story might still decide to live and experience it while a person faint of heart might choose not to. If the life looks good many people will decide to live it out. One example of a life that a person would choose not to live is in the book when the man and the boy find the charred newborn on a stake over a fire. It’s only a guess but I don’t think I would have ever wanted to live if I were that newborn. Most lives today are lives worth living. In fact when you think about it most lives are worth living. It’s your one shot, no one knows what happens after death many people believe certain things but no one has ever come back from the dead to tell us what actually happens. Life might be your only chance to think, dance, play, smile, or well, live. The boy and the man in the book understand this somewhat and strive to survive when they could just as easily give up and die. They are a prime desire of humanity’s desire to live. I think that many people would choose to live, I would.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

If I were the last person on earth I believe I could go about surviving for some time at least as long as the world wasn’t completely destroyed and barren. I have a game plan. I would start by scavenging in old restaurants, buildings, and stores. As long as I found food and water in one of these places I would be able to survive for a little while. Another thing that would postpone judgment day is shelter. Although I would need to keep moving because of supplies some kind of shelter would keep me alive. After solving all of my basic needs (food, shelter) I think that the biggest problem would be loneliness. Loneliness would be a big problem because I believe with no one to convey my feelings to I would over time go crazy. To solve this conundrum I would look for other survivors as well as look for an animal of some sort to be my companion. One movie that inspired me greatly on what to do if I was the last person to my knowledge on earth is "I Am Legend". It is a story of a man in an after epidemic hit New York trying to make a vaccine for the disease. He solves the problem of loneliness by befriending a dog. These reasons are why I think that my game plan would allow me to survive after doomsday.