Unconditional Love.

I have only read the first fifty pages and I can say this is not like any book I have read before. The way the author tells the story makes it an easy read but still at the beginning the reader or maybe just me is a little lost. Until now, I know The Road is a story about the journey of a man and his son as they struggle to survive. Why they have to survive? How they got to the woods where they wake up when the story starts? I don’t know. What I do know is that this novel reveals how unconditional love for your own child exists.

People always say that the moment you see your child for the first time you fall in love him, there’s nothing that you will ever love as much as that, and your goal will be always to protect him no matter what. In the Road, papa and the boy are on a journey where they don’t have permanent shelter, warmth or food. It was a hard situation. The boy was little and had to be taken cared of. The dad had to do everything he could in order to save him, because “the boy was all that stood between him and death.” (29) Papa does not want to keep living that way but he does for his sons because he can’t leave him.

Another reason could be that he, the father felt guilty for the loss of the boy’s mother. “he did not take care of her and she dies alone somewhere in the dark” (32). He still loves his child but feels he has to protect him more so that he won’t lose him. I even risk to say that the father is not living for himself right know but for his son. Probably if they were not traveling together and he were alone the story would be different, he would take other roads.
I can’t say that I have experienced this unconditional love because I haven’t had a child, but up to this moment in the story there is a bond between father and son. On the verge of death and terrible conditions, he has to live to protect his child or will he be able to even consider the possibility of dying knowing that’s his son will have to continue the journey alone and unprotected?