Assignment #2

In the novel "The Road," the author uses descriptive imagery and sorrowful diction in order to display how Papa, the boys father, has to contend with a personal matter that occured in the past at the moment the the great fire burned the earth. Whenever the father and son go to sleep for the night, the father has a continueous flashback of his wife and when she left them to go die because she couldn't handle the pain anymore. Also bacause when the boy was delivered she said that the very day her son was born was the day when her very heart was ripped out of her. The father was unable to contend with this matter for a very long time and it haunts him during the whole trip with his son while they traveled south. Papa could never sleep for very long due to this tragic event that occured in the crisis of the fire. The father feels completly responsible for the lost of his wife and makes a promise to himself to protect his son until his last breath reaches to the surface. He has lost all  belief in god and says the boy is like an angel to him and even a god. Everyday he feels heartbreak and guilt and has made it his absolutly job to find his son a place to live in peace without anymore fear. This is something that any father would do for their son or any other family member that he has amazing love for.