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The motif of fire and ash in The Road is used to illustrate the duality of hope and despair, contrasting the light of the fire to the darkness of ash. This motif is supported by man’s inventive efforts to use natural resources in order to survive against the natural world and the people left in it.

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Keeping up with the symbolism of the fire meaning hope, the man tasks the boy with maintains hope in the face of the apocalypse.

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The ash fell on the snow until it was all but black. Pg.9

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The ash fell on the snow until it was all but black. Pg.9

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This imagery is used to focus on the darkness created by the apocalypse through it’s effect on humanity. The snow represents the once pure nature of humanity now blackened by the apocalypse’s ash.

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Just beyond the high gap in the mountains they stood and looked out over the great gulf to the south where the country as far as they can see was burned away, the blackened shapes of rock standing out of the shoals of ash and billows of ash rising up and down country through the waste. Pg.4

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Just beyond the high gap in the mountains they stood and looked out over the great gulf to the south where the country as far as they can see was burned away, the blackened shapes of rock standing out of the shoals of ash and billows of ash rising up and down country through the waste. Pg.4

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The imagery of ash is used to show the devastating and immense effect of the apocalypse on the land. It affects the country as far as the man can see, covering the land and spreading in the wind. The apocalypse has touched everywhere, both literally and metaphorically.

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No sign of life. Cars in the street caked with ash, everything covered with ash and dust. Fossil tracks in the dried sludge.pg.6

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No sign of life. Cars in the street caked with ash, everything covered with ash and dust. Fossil tracks in the dried sludge.pg.6

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This further establishes the setting. The world is lifeless and covered in ash. Where there had once been people and happiness, only gray ashy emptiness remains in the world. Only fossilized tracks of the world before remain.

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"On cold winter nights when the electricity was out in a storm we would sit at the fire, me and my sisters doing our homework." Pg.7

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"On cold winter nights when the electricity was out in a storm we would sit at the fire, me and my sisters doing our homework." Pg.7

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The diction here represents the hope and joy in the life before the apocalypse. Fire has already been strongly associated with hope and by including it in memories, the reader associates those memories with hope as well.

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"Everything too wet to make a fire." Pg.3

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"Everything too wet to make a fire." Pg.3

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As fire is symbolic of hope, saying everything is too wet to make a fire represents that it is growing too difficult to conjure hope in the world they live in.

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"The ash fell on the snow till it was all but black." Pg.9

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"The ash fell on the snow till it was all but black." Pg.9

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The imagery is focused on representing the apocalypse's effects on humanity. The snow represents the purity of humanity, being covered by the apocalypse's ash.

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"And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you?Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly." Pg.6

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"And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you?Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly." Pg.6

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The man uses ash to represent the bleakness of his current life. While his dreams of his past life were filled with rich emotion and color, his present is grey and littleness like ash. This ash is frequently brought up to show the man's apathy about his world.

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Ash moving over the road and the sagging hands of blind wire strung from the blackened lightpoles whining thinly in the wind. Pg.2

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Ash moving over the road and the sagging hands of blind wire strung from the blackened lightpoles whining thinly in the wind. Pg.2

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This ash imagery establishes the bleak setting of the apocalypse further. It conveys the hopelessness and gray atmosphere, and this helps the audience connect the isolation the man and boy are feeling strengthening their bond to each other.