Journal 6- The Road

The Road tells the story of a man and his son, the troubles they face while traveling south in a world that has almost been dissolved. I think it’s a very well told story, yet I’m not sure if it could happen in real life. People talk about Global Warming and the dangers it causes for our future, yet most people sit around waiting for someone to do something about it. There are parts of the book that seem realistic, and could happen but I don’t think it is all plausible. I don’t believe that with the technology we have its plausible that our civilization can disappear so easily. I think that if global warming did get that bad and cause that much destruction we would find ways to prevent it or help each other.
While traveling on the road one day, the man and the boy run into an old man that calls himself Ely. The boy pity’s on the old man and asks his dad if they can share the food they have with him. Although the man doesn’t seem convinced about sharing the food, he agrees to do so because the boy asked. That night the man built a fire and sat around it with the old man and his son. They sat around the fire and had a very weird conversation. The man says, “People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.”(Page 59) This quote stood out to me a lot. It made me wonder what “tomorrow” has in store for us. The old man he says “people were always getting ready for tomorrow,” when I read that I began to wonder if people knew what was going happen. Then there is also the part that says “Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even now they were there.” That part left me thinking for a while. What will happen to humanity if we don’t prepare ourselves for the future? This is our world; we live in it, there for we must take care of it. That includes our futures. We can’t expect to let “tomorrow” fall into place by it self. When we want to accomplish something we cant wait around and wait someone bring it to us, its never going to happen. We must prepare ourselves for what ever might come our way.

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