The Road by Cormac McCarthy Book [PDF]

The Road book begins with a father and his young son walking alone on the road through a vast wasteland in the winter season of October.

After the incident post-apocalyptic, it was covered with ash surroundings, reduced rubble, dark clouds, and hard-to-crack stones due to the extreme coldness in the town which makes resources more complicated. 

The father and son have a very limited supply of food, and some cloth to cover themselves and have only a pistol to protect against the lawless bands.

Their destination is toward the south coast sea direction because it is close to impossible to survive in the northern latitude with this cold. They move forward to the interstate highways to reach the sea.

During their walk, the man feels small reprieves when he finds the waterfalls and mushrooms in the woods, at the same time encounters a horrific scene of a man burning alive and about to die from severe wounds.

Furtherly, the man teaches the boy to use a gun to protect himself from cannibals in case of his unavailability.

One of the marauders discovers them on the road and seizes the boy, but his father reacts quickly and shoots him immediately to protect his son. Father and son leave the place and moves further to find some food as they are near the point of death.

Fortunately, they find a concealed bunker filled with supplies, food, and some clothes. As it feels like the appropriate and slightly safe place to stay, They decided to stay there for some days.

After gaining some strength, they again back on track to continue their journey, they encounter an older and puzzling man named Ely with whom they share some foods to help him a little bit and move further.

Their health conditions get down as long as their journey passes, and the boy realizes that the condition of his father worsening rapidly which makes him worry about his health and need to act immediately.

But the man ensures the boy that everything is well and not to worry about him, having never given spirit, Finally, the father and son reached the sea where they spotted a boat that brings them ashore.

They find supplies on the boat along with the flare gun. The boy’s health gets worse and bleeds internally but the moral of fighting keeps alive.

Further, they discover, their supplies, and food cart has been stolen by someone, they identify the thief, a man travelling alone, confront him, take everything at the gunpoint that he stole, and leave the place.

The man suddenly disappears, on the other side, while walking through a town inland, the man is severely injured by an arrow and heavily bleeding his leg. Realizing he will going to die very soon, he assists the son to use a flare gun.

The man pampered and advised the boy to continue without him expecting some miracle would happen. The boy cares him for some days, but unfortunately, he dies and the boy keeps sitting there with his body for three days.

Now in the end, would the boy be able to survive and fulfil his father’s wish or he would die too? You need to download The Road PDF and e-Book available in the section below.