![]() ![]() When the father feels that there is no hope for them at the end of the road the boy always reminds him that they are the good guys because he, the father, told the boy that they were good. There can be good and evil in the world but neither can balance the other out. If there was nothing but good in the world everything would be better but if there was nothing but evil in the world, then there would be chaos. To think there is both good and evil in the world makes the world balance out. evil is developed through point of view, foreshadowing, structure, setting, and imagery. In Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, the theme of good vs. The boy is good a bad, he does get angry with his father but in the end he is the father’s moral compass to keep him on the right track. According to Jean Paul, “The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.” Throughout the novel the boy has this unsettling mindset that he is both the god and bad guy, which he can good but bad as well. ![]() When thinking about good versus evil critics ad readers have this mindset of there is one good guy and one bad guy and that there is no mediator, until you read the book The Road by Cormac McCarthy. ![]() The theme good versus evil is a well-known theme throughout many books, not just novels. ![]()
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