The Road

The father and boy from "The Road" live in a post-apocalyptic world where everything is burnt down. Every day, they strive to keep living, to reach the coast. The boy, still innocent in age, can't mentally handle seeing the atrocities of the world. He can't imagine people eating other people to stay alive, and he is devastated when they have to leave the boy and dog behind. All the boy wants is someone else to talk to, but all he has is his father. The father has to stay strong not only for himself, but for the boy as well. He always tells the boy that they are the "good guys", and that they would never resort to such foul means of survival as eating others. The father doesn't have a choice in his own emotions, he has to be the bigger man in this situation. He says his only reason of living is to keep the boy alive. Without the boy, the father wouldn't have the emotional ability to survive thus far, and without the father, the boy would have died off early. Such a duo couldn't exist separately in such a hopeless environment.