It's been a long road, fighting off bad guys, starvation, and disease. And now the boy and man have finished their journey.All this time, I've been saying that The Road is a terribly dull novel, and isn't worth reading. I take back about half of everything bad I've said about it. I find most of the novel to be rather uninteresting, but the last little part of this story makes it worth reading entirely. The sheer sadness from the man's passing is touching. I Yeah, so that sounds a little strange, but what I'm trying to say is that the death of the man was so touching that people should read it. It's probably more than a little morbid, but I think it's an unexplainable part of human nature. The analogy I can think of is bad, but it might help explain how I feel about reading The Road's final section. Baseball games, football games, and basketball games are all a part of American society. Practically everyone watches at least one of these, and if not, they watch something else, like tennis or swimming. But when you watch them, people aren't really doing anything. Actually, they're probably eating unhealthy foods and creating a mess (sadly, I'm guilty of this). But if someone were to ask why, the most probably answer would be something like "just because" or "it's something you do". The reason why I think people should read The Road, or at least the ending, is exactly that. Because everyone should.
And...today in class, I checked the wrong box by accident. I said I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I'd like to take that back.
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