The Road

While reading The Road written by Cormac McCarthy, I have found just depressing.  One of the scene, the man finds the soda machine and got a soda for his son as a treat.  Of course the child liked it very much.  However, the child told to his father that he won't have a chance to drink that soda ever again [23].  Why this sound depressing is because even though he is just a child, he understand how he is in a desperate situation.  In real life, normal child like him should be having tons of sweets and having a happy moment like his father did when he was young.  However, this child cannot enjoy that moment of life and must live in the cruel world.  After this scene, they have spotted the mummied dead everywhere in the city [24]. For  a child in a real world, that kind of scene would been terrifying and will be traumatized.  How ever, the child in the The Road have become used to it and became abnormal.  Even though child should  have a happy life, in this book, that just not happen.