Are we there yet...Almost...Will we ever get there...Sometime, not now...The Road

All I have to say is that the boy is not only naive, he's nice.
First, he does not know what he is talking about half the time but he still talks about it. Crows???
It's expected of him not to know, but he still talks as if he does. On the other hand he does catch on really fast.
Bright kid, but a real smarty pants.
Second, he sees a random guy on a road, in a world full of hungry carnivorous cannibals. What does he do?
He goes up to him, sympathizes with him, and gives him food. IDIOT!!! Listen to your father he could have made you his dinner. The kid is lucky the old man was nice.
I have no idea how the old man has even survived this long. He's half deaf and probably can't see the road correctly. Anyone could have jumped him,  and "gone on with it". He wouldn't have minded, unless he was still alive at the time they "went on with it..." I shudder at the thought.
I admire the old mans bravery and will to survive though.
In my opinion I think the old man was the comic relief of the story. His being old and having characteristics of the old, is mildly amusing. This is mainly pointed out during the conversation between him the man and his son.
All the while he still had the wisdom that came with age.
I like a quote he said.

"People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didnt believe in that. Tomorrow wasnt
getting ready for them. It didnt even know they were there."


The he also said, "Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave."


That actually made me laugh at the irony of it. I remember one of my classmates (Fatima) was criticizing, with good reason, the fact that all the people in the world are still trying to live, but for what?  They have no reason to live, but they still keep trying.
I guess the man is shedding light to her statement. :P
I think the old man could have been a philosopher with the way he talked about life, god, death, and everyone else. Then again, he could have just lost his mind. Either way, philosopher or deranged old man, its all the same thing right?

Besides all that stuff i also think that as the man gets sicker, he is also getting more and more paranoid. Probably out of worry for his son but still. Its quite noticeable.
They stay at a house. Then the kid becomes paranoid. Like father like son as they say. :P
What i have come to notice, is that in the conversations that the father and son have, they say okay a lot.
It is as if they have been through so much crap that they are able to readily accept anything. They don't hesitate to do anything either. Unless of course, they are being paranoid or scared.

Cormac McCarthy does spend a lot of time describing macabre scenes. Makes you wonder what goes through his head all the time. How does he sleep?...I don't know about him but i'm going to have trouble sleeping tonight. with all the detail of heads of infants, dead bodies in graves, humans burned and charred in the heat. One word comes to my mind, eww.
Does anyone else think it is odd how the dude knows so many words that are simply synonyms for dead stuff???Sepulchre??? what diction that is, eh? lol
Then of course comes the beach...the good old sunny bright fun warm beach....
NOT!!! exactly the opposite...smog full, wet cold, ashy, down right depressing beach. Just like everything else in that world. Who swims into the ocean to scavange a ship?? Pirates all over again
I swear that man would probably be the worlds best scavenger. I wonder where he learned that from.
So much mystery...so little time. I take that back They still arent "there" yet. Will they ever get there? Probably, just not yet...smh....