Cormac Mccarthy The Road Survival

People lose their humanity during certain circumstances in order to survive. In the book, The Road written by Cormac McCarthy, all humanity is lost in order to survive the volcano apocalypse. In the book there was a huge volcano apocalypse that almost wiped out the human race entirely. The whole world was falling apart the system that everyone followed was no more the small amount of people who survived were fighting hunger,coldness and also cannibalism. The world turned dark and ashy from all the smoke from the volcanoes all the cities were abandoned and there was no nature left to see. People saw no solutions so they started to turn into cannibals and thieves in order to survive. While traveling on the road, the father and the son meet people
The father and the boy wanted to forget all of the destruction from the apocalypse and so they decided to go to the beach. When they got to the beach, they were not surprised or impressed by the ocean. Instead they thought it was colorless and unpleasant. Since both the father and the son traveled for almost the whole day they were tired and so the boy slept in the tent but the father decided to take a swim. While the boy was asleep, he was unaware of his surroundings and of the dangers around him. Soon after the boy fell asleep a thief saw the opportunity to take the cart with all of their materials. Once the father came out of the water, he saw that everything was gone and started to scream at the boy they saw some cart tracks leading away so they followed. Sooner than later, they caught up with the thief as soon as the father saw him he screamed stop. When the thief, heard that he turned around with a knife in his hand, according to McCarty “ If you don not put down the knife and get away from the cart, then said, I am going to blow your brains out. The thief looked at the child and what he saw was very sobering to him” (256). After the father got his cart back, he was not finished with the thief he told him to take his clothes off as it says, on the road “ Take your clothes off what? Take them off. Every god damned stitch.come on.
The nights seemed longer and hotter each day for the father and the son because they were starving. After a while they decided to look for food in the first house they see. Sooner than later, they saw a house and decided to scavenge it as they were approaching the house the boy, though it was too risky and sketchy to go in. As it says on the road, “What if theres someone here papa? Theres no one here. We should go, papa”(106). The father knew it was a risk they had to take in order to survive. When they went inside the house they saw a pile of clothes and blankets. Then they found a door that lead to the basement, they assumed someone was hiding food there since it was locked. As they went in they smelled a very bad stench then out of nowhere as Mccarthy describes it “ Huddled against the back wall were chained male and females, all trying to hide, shiilding their faces with their hands. On a mattress layed a man with his legs gone to the hip. The smell was hideous.” (111). This demonstrates humanity's capacity to be wicked because it tells you how brutal people turned into after the apocalypse happened. They turned into cannibals that captured people and put them in the basement to eat them one by one to survive. It was basically a slaughter house for the cannibals. They gromsumly tortured and killed the innocent