Thank GOD It's Over! Alternative Ending.....
Hey all you Carter fans, stand up and clap your hands! I finished a choice book from start to finish...I know, I doubted myself too. While I did happen to finish my book, the ending troubled me. ATTENTION: SPOILER ALERT!!! Here's the deal... The ending to The Road was overall just depressing. The man ends up getting fatally ill, as his bloody cough worsens. All the boy can do is watch his father get worse and worse, until he eventually dies. The father's death was so sudden and abrupt I was caught off guard, as if McCarthy wanted to show death as an insignificant event. Anyways, the boy stays with his father for a troubling three days before finally saying goodbye when he decides to join a a different group of travelers (who by the way are "good guys" and say that they "carry the fire" too). The death of the father and the parting of the boy was hard to digest, especially because one of the key topics of the story is the relationship they had shared....