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.