Words from McCarthy

McCarthy explains to Oprah how the book came to his mind, telling us about a night he spend in a hotel at El Paso with his son. Its interesting to see how the story comes to life. McCarthy mentions how he was awake in the night and he looked out the window, everything motionless but the sounds very alive. He could see the image of flames and destruction in his head. Four years later he writes the novel always having the thought of his son in mind. It takes him 4 years with his son to continue writing the book, we can see how in reality and in the book McCarthy and the father share lots of time together with their sons, listening to them and teaching them. They have lots of affection for the little boys. The night in the hotel , helped him through the books setting, were we often find the father awake in the middle of the night and the child sleeping. Making nameless characters McCarthy allows anyone to relate to the book, never mentioning their identity. I can even say the book is about McCarthy and his son, telling the readers about experiences the have. In the book, the way the father and son react towards each other is more than an imaginary idea. Giving the novel a personal tone, we see how the father protects the son under any circumstance even killing men if he needs to. The reason why the world is the way it is in The Road, is because humans are always searching for perfection. They have a set of ideals and goals they want to reach bus as McCarthy says in the interview, they will never be accomplished. However without these "dreams" of perfection, humans wouldn't get anywhere I found an interesting connection between the interview and the book. McCarthy mentions he didn't know where the book was going to end while he was writing it. Somehow, this idea relates to the book because the characters, the boy and his father, have absolutely no idea of their destiny, for all they know, they could be walking towards death or to salvation. Their faith depends on how McCarthy decides to end his fiction book. Even then McCarthy has the power to terminate or continue the life of the two male figures that appear in the book, however he has absolutely no idea of what their end will be.