The Highway by Cormac McCarthy, the person protects and guides the boy throughout their trudge to the south. Nevertheless, within the story, they act extra as companions than father and son, and the person treats the boy as an equal each in motion and dialogue. Chased by cannibals, the boy he man seeks to defend the boy from each the cannibals and scavenge meals for them to outlive. As the person and boy trek down the street, cannibals intently hunt them and so they typically escape by hiding or by retreating away.

The man typically plunders empty homes, looking for meals and garments for them.

The man is profitable, discovering “crate upon create of canned items” (McCarthy 138). “Tomatoes, peaches, beans, apricots, canned ham, corned beef”, and so on. (McCarthy 138) offers the meals the person and the boy eats. The man carries a pistol with him used to protect them from cannibals. Earlier than the person dies, he offers the boy the pistol, telling him to “hold the gun with you always.

That you must discover the nice guys however you cant take any possibilities. ” (McCarthy 278). As talked about earlier than, the person and boy talk extra as pals than family..

At first of The Highway, when the person first woke “he’d attain out to the touch the kid sleeping beside him” to verify the kid’s well-being. The man will “learn me [the boy] a narrative” (McCarthy 7) and “held the boy near him” (McCarthy 29). The boy demonstrates nice maturity as he cares for the person by reminding him to “pour the recent water again […] and pour a number of the cocoa into his personal” (McCarthy 34) and always reminding the person to take heed of his well being. Ultimately, after the person dies, he was “wrapped in a blanket…” (McCarthy 286) and the boy “sat beside him and he [the boy]