How are they described, what role do they play in the book and how is their appearance used by McCarthy to evoke fear and tension throughout the novel?

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The lack of fresh food also means that they are inadequately provided with vitamins. Also the water that they drink from small rivers and puddles may make them sick. Again food has an ambiguous meaning. While they desperately need it to continue their journey it could also poison them.

Only from time to time they find some fresh food on their way, for example morels 40 or apples. It may also be a sign that they are reaching warmer climate, that not all life on earth has gone or that the planet and nature are even slowly recovering. The apples are a sign of hope that not everything in the world has died as the blossoms of apple trees have to be fertilized by insects and also a good example for the rare, but funny humour McCarthy displays when he creates an image of the man who has in his arms nearly more apples than he is able to carry and also in the hood of his parka and in his pockets.

The man later finds a cistern of clear and sweet water of which he drinks until his stomach is full. The place where they stopped is like an oasis in the desert for our involuntary nomads. Once they enter a supermarket completely plundered except for one tin of Coke that the man offers to his boy.

The Coke may be seen as a symbol and the fact that there is only one can left of a drink that was sold million times a day in the past makes it even more obvious that the United states, the American way of life and all the ideas, ideals and feelings which were linked to it are definitely gone. Asked why he uses the image of Coke McCarthy answers: McCarthy uses onomatopoeia when the man leans the nose of his son to the "slight fizz" 22 that comes from the can to include the reader. Nearly everybody will remember the bubbling sounds that are produced by a freshly opened can.

For the son it is his first Coke and at the same time a link to the life of the man before the apocalypse. The latter so offers his son a small glimpse into the beautiful past when things had flavour and drinks bubbled in your mouth.

The deep love which the man shows to his son by offering him the most precious items of food they scavenge is a deep and powerful contrast to the atrocities that happen around them every day and runs through the whole story. It gives the quite depressing book some spare moments of brightness, hope and optimism.

Even if it is unsure that his son will live on he does not try to regain his health by eating something but instead passes all to his child. Not only the cannibals but also the main actors have turned into some sort of hunter-gatherers, except that they only gather. And like them they have become nomads, which is the only lifestyle which enables one to survive in a desert-like nature.

Even if they found a place where they could grow things they would not be able to defend it against others. Here again our wanderers appear to be thrown back into a past long gone. They are still part of the food cycle only this time they find themselves at the very bottom and have themselves become food in a society where only the survival of the fittest counts.

Every time they look for food in houses they must feel and behave like deer eating out of garbage cans: Economics - Case Scenarios.

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Introduction The Road is set in an apocalyptic scenario in which most of humankind and the environment seems to have been destroyed by an unspecified catastrophe. The Role of Food In most post-apocalyptic novels food is not rare shortly after the catastrophe because there are so many leftovers of the former civilization and they are easily accessible from abandoned stores and supermarkets.