Thr Road- The end

         So I've finished reading "The Road" , and quite honestly it's one of the most depressing books I've ever read. I know it has important themes like morality, love, and family but it's just to sad. Really, I feel like crying right now. After all that the man and the boy has been through the man dies and the boy finds the good guys. But it feels right. If the book had ended in any other way the ending wouldn't have had a strong impact and it wouldn't be realistic. The world the boy and the man lived in was a dog eat dog world, literally. Reading this novel has made me think of alot of things, like if I was in that situation could i be resilient enough to endure it?To face all the hardships the boy and the man did in order to reach something that may not exist. The south may exist but what they think may be in the south may not. I  don't think I could hold out long enough with hope. This book has also taught me that the morality of humans is flexible. That in times of dire need people would put aside their conventions of right and wrong to suit their own purposes.Take the cannibals for example. Everyone knows that cannibalism is wrong, but if there was nothing else to eat would you resort to eating someone else? Like a friend or family member? This book falls into the post apocolyptian genre but unlike the other post Apocalypse novels or movies I don't see a warning. There is pretty much nothing we can do to prevent something like that from happening. I think the book is more of a way of telling how humane people can be even in extreme circumstances, like the man and the boy.