choice to make their tracks obscure so that it can minimize the possibility of being followed by cannibals.
9. Brave
The father in The Road is a brave man. He never gives up in his attempts to find food for his son. He always pushes himself to search some stuff in some places they pass.
What should we do, Papa? I think we should take a look. We just have to be careful. If it’s a commune they’ll
have barricades. But it may just be refugees. Like us.
Yes. Like us. What if it’s the bad guys?
We’ll have to take a risk. We need to find something to eat 82-83. When finding an abandoned boat on the sea, the father decides to get there to find out
anything useful for them. He takes off his clothes and swims to the boat. The sea is gray and freezing but he does not care about it. He keeps swimming, takes the useful stuff, and
backs to the beach. In the last of the light and swung the tarp down and palmed the water off his arms
and chest and went to get his clothes. The boy followed him. He kept asking him about his shoulder, blue and discolored from where he’d slammed it against the
hatch door. It’s all right the man said. It does not hurt. We got lots of stuff. Wait till you see 246-247.
Further, he reveals his bravery when he treats his wound. He gets hot and sharp pain on his leg when passing on the main road. A bad people on a second- story building
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has shot at them with a bow and an arrow. He wipes his wound with water and tries to stop the bleeding.
He swabbed the wound with disinfectant and opened a plastic envelope with his teeth and took out a small hooked suture needle and a coil of silk thread and sat
holding the silk to the light while he threaded it through the needle’s eye. He took a clamp from the kit and caught the needle in the jaws ad locked them and set about
suturing the wound. He worked quickly and he took no great pain about it. ….
He ran the knot down the thread and pulled it taut and cut off the silk with the scissors from the kit… 285.
Based on speech and mannerism, the father is obviously brave. He is willing to take a risk to get what he wants. Besides, he is not afraid of getting hurt that is proved by taking
an extreme action in stopping his bleeding from his leg.
B. The Cause of the Struggles of the Father
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