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1080 civilization v backgrounds2/19/2024 The pair reaches the sea, where they discover a boat that has drifted from shore. They soon run out of supplies and begin to starve before finding a house containing more food to carry in their cart, but the man's condition worsens. Farther along the road they evade a group whose members include pregnant women, and soon after they discover an abandoned campsite with a newborn infant roasted on a spit. They encounter an old man with whom the boy insists they share food. They stay there for several days regaining their strength and then carry on, taking supplies with them in a cart. Later, when searching a mansion for supplies, they discover a locked cellar containing people whose captors have imprisoned them alive in order to eat them limb by limb and flee into the woods.Īs they near starvation, the pair discovers a concealed bunker filled with food, clothes and other supplies. The father shoots the marauder dead and they flee the marauder's companions, abandoning most of their possessions. They attempt to evade a group of marauders traveling along the road but one of the marauders discovers them and seizes the boy. The father has tried to teach the boy to use the gun on himself if necessary, to avoid falling into the hands of cannibals. The pair has a revolver, but only two rounds. He assures his son that they are "good guys" who are "carrying the fire". Realizing they cannot survive the winter in northern latitudes, the father takes the boy south along county roads towards the sea, carrying their meager possessions in their knapsacks and a supermarket cart. The boy's mother, who was pregnant with him at the time of the disaster, has committed suicide at some point after his birth. The book was adapted into a film of the same name in 2009, directed by John Hillcoat.Ī father and his young son journey on foot across the post-apocalyptic ash-covered United States some years after an undefined extinction event the death of all plant life and virtually all animal life. The novel was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006. The book details the grueling journey of a father and his young son over a period of several months across a landscape blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed industrial civilization and almost all life. The Road is a 2006 post-apocalyptic novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy.
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