A Principle to Keep

Normally I'd do something about "Not eating people." But apparently that should be common sense. So I wrote about another moral.

Throughout The Road the idea of principles and the disappearance of them along the same level as society, with the most central and core beliefs breaking down years after the initial collapse. I think that if one principle could be maintained in an apocalypse, it would be family. In The Road, the mother kills herself. This is a large influence on the fathers beliefs, and the child's wishes. I believe the mother did more than just kill herself, she killed part of the boy and dad. If the mother had not done what she did, family would not have been treasured as much by the child and his father, because she would be there with them. After everything they knew was destroyed, their family was the one thing left. Loyalty within the family assures you're not alone in a world full of evil. Being alone in this world is the equivalent of being dead.