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The pistol left in the sand has significance in the book. While it may not play a major role as an event in the story, it reveals some things about the boy. The boy knows just how important that pistol is. It is the only thing to defend both Papa and his son from everything that the world has left. However, the boy seems to not want the pistol, and I believe that he left it on the sand on purpose. The pistol only brings death, and from his experience, the boy has only ever seen his father shoot an unarmed roadrat. Not to mention that this pistol is what his mother used to kill herself, the boy knows that if they plan to make friends with any new survivors, his father cannot have the pistol.

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This is an image of the beaches of Dunkirk in WWII. During the war, British soldiers were to be evacuated from these shores while under airstrikes from German forces and before the German army was able to make it to the shores. Soldiers were starved, exhausted, and hopeless. The lines of hundreds of thousands of soldiers filled the beaches. They curved around the shore as each soldier was hoping to God that they would be rescued. Large open areas of white sand showed that soldiers felt much safer when next to an ally rather than spread out. This image is what comes to mind when I think of what happened in The Road. People must have gathered on the beaches in an attempt to run from the atrocities inland, but no one came to rescue them.

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Papa is getting ready to jump into the freezing ocean to swim over 100 feet to a boat. The ocean is foamy and white, not to mention freezing. The rocks on the shore seem to act like barricades, holding back the ocean from engulfing the land. Papa, however, stands outside the barrier of these rocks, ready to take on the monstrous ocean in order to salvage a boat off shore. Papa is willing to leave his son on the shore with a loaded pistol and swim in freezing waters, putting both his son and himself at risk. If papa doesnt make it back, his son is going to have to fend for himself, but Papa knows that the only way to survive is to take risks

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This is how I imagine the boy while he watches his father attempt to swim to the boat off shore. He stands watching in both curiosity and fear of what will happen. The fog on the hills blocks out the sight of what is upcoming and the beach stretches for what looks like an infinite amount. The boy and father can not stay on the beach forever and must go on into the unknown. The boy stands as close as possible to the sea, clearly wanting to know more about it, but it is dangerous so he cannot go in again. The image is clearly a darker one with no bright colors. The image conveys the idea of a bland world without people. Nature will forever hold the mark of humans, but in places like these, it is as though there has never been life at all.

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No matter what part of the book we read I cannot imagine it having clear skies. There are no genuinely happy and bright moments in the book where it seems like everything is going to be ok. Even when something good does happen like when Papa and his son find a bunker with supplies, they know that it is only temporary and must move on. The image here depicts what I imagine when I think of the overall environment in the book. Skies are always cloudy and everything is dead. The land is harsh and not very survivable. The steep hills and small beach show that even when Papa and his son reached the destination, it wasn't what they expected it to be. The ocean was grey and the sand was too. Everything created a feeling of dread, which is what McCarthy is going for, a sense of hopelessness but the protagonists still move on.