Letter to Cormac

If I were to write an open letter to the author Cormac McCarthy, I would ask him what were his motive and or vision.  The overall plot took a more pessimistic outlook and I was wondering why he chose such directions.  Don’t get me wrong, The Road was a great novel, but at times it was difficult to detect the theme of the story.  One theme that I could come upon with the story was the concept of trust.  The son trusted his father that he would never leave his side no matter what.  That’s a hard promise to keep in an apocalyptic world, but it was a promise that the son expected his father to keep.  In beginning of the story, the son asked the father, “What would you do if I died?”  The father simply said, “If you died, I just would want to die too.”  The son took this statement by his father as a commitment from him (the father) that he would never leave his side, or die before him.  Another thing I would like to commend McCarthy on is how well is implemented the concept of protection in this novel.  Throughout the whole story, whenever the father found something, weather is was food, a hygiene utensil, or something for warmth, he always made sure that his son ate, or reaped from the benefits first before him.  I think that said a lot about the father’s character under such gruesome circumstances.