We are all going to die!!!!!!

    Before I discuss the very cognizant inevitability, of the mass extinction of the human race, it would be nice to pick out some interesting quotes from The Road, and discuss them. Interesting enough, one very heart felt quote is uttered by the man, he goes on to say " Can you do it? When the time comes?....Could you crush that beloved skull with a rock?" During this quote the man and the boy fled from the house where the people were being held as rations for the cannibals. This quote is iinteresting because, here the father deliberates on whether he can be able to kill his son, in the face of extreme danger. In spite of his beliefs prior to the event, he knows that he in fact cannot hold his son dead in his arms, and decides upon waiting out the situation and hoping that the cannibals leave. The quote is filled with so much anxiety and emotion that it screams indecision. In a way the quote alludes to the fact that in life, we are met with situations where we have to make tough decisions, and the confusion that these situations entail reflect the apocalyptic nature of the world in which we live. Another quote that is worthy of noting would have to be the one in which the boy says "They're going to kill those people, aren't they?....They're going to eat them, aren't they?....And we couldn't help them because then they'd eat us too.....An that's why we couldn't help them." With this quote, we can kind of infer that, the boys belief in his father's sense of morality is being challenged. It seems that this is a recurring theme. The dad makes a decision though immoral, in the interest of survival, and the son questions it. It's almost as if the boy is learning bit by bit the reality of the world that they live in. A reader responding to this quote would absolutely understand what the boy is feeling, being young and questioning your parents why an alternative to the decision that they made couldn't have been chosen. For instance, when I was six, my father and I were walking and we saw a hungry dog. I saw the sorrow in the dogs eyes and wanted to help it, but ultimately my father decided against it. I asked my father why we couldn't help that dog, and to this day I am still awaiting the answer.
         Now for our feature presentation. We all know that we are going to die. We also know that if not sooner, someday the human race will come to an end. The question then that is imposed is How are we going to die? Well, a number of sources have their opinion, including Yeats and T.S. Eliot. Yeat's interpretation of the world ending is a bit more biblical and scientific. Its more of a compilation of the possible ways in which the world could end, ranging from the highly probable to the impossible. This is contrary to Eliots beliefs which is mostly rooted in imagination. Eliot believes that there will be an Apocalypse of the mind of men. Eliot writes that instead of the mass destruction, or bang that is often believed to be the way that the world  ends it would end with a whimper. In a way Eliot's beliefs compare with McCarthy's take because after the destruction of the world the minds and inner feeling of the people went through an Apocalypse. Many of them were forced to make decisions that were immoral just to survive such as consuming the flesh of other humans. though Eliot's take have few similarities to McCarthy's Yeats takes the cake. Yeats and McCarthy's take are so similar that for not the differences in who conceived them one could say that they were the same. It could be argued that McCarthy was influenced by the many situations on Yeat's list. What ever it may be both authors believe that the world could end with raging flames possibly due to the ignorance of men.