![]() The stranger lunges for the boy but the man shoots the stranger in the forehead. The man and boy accidentally encounter one of these strangers. On the way observe a truck of “bad guys,” the gangs on the road who rape, murder, and eat other people. The man and boy cross a mountain range, where they suffer through snowstorms. His wife had killed herself, trying to escape what she felt was inevitable rape and murder. The man sometimes has good dreams about the past and his wife. They suffer from cold, exposure, and frequent starvation as they travel the road and search abandoned buildings for food. The man sometimes coughs up blood and the boy constantly asks for comfort and reassurance. ![]() They plod along in the darkness with a shopping cart, two knapsacks, and a pistol. ![]() The plot begins as they are traveling south down the road towards the coast, somewhere in the Southeastern United States. The protagonists, a man and a boy, his young son, are never given names. ![]() In this landscape everything is dead and burnt, the sun is blotted out by ash, all plants and animals are extinct, and most humans are either lone travelers or members of cannibalistic communes. ![]() The Road takes place after some unknown apocalyptic event has nearly wiped out the earth. ![]()
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