II:This secret can be looked at in the same light as the secret regarding what other humans, if there are many other humans, are doing the days after the disaster. We see this "family" at the end of the novel and one wonders if they are wandering people like the boy and deceased "Papa," or if they are living with other people either in a cannibal commune or some outpost of civilized humanity.
III: This secret may not be pivotal to the narration of the story, but very little outside of the events which directly effect the boy and the man are completely necessary. One of the author's goals of this novel seems to leave as much up to the reader's imagination as possible, so observed in that light, this secret is very important to the novel because it continues the trend of the author letting the reader know little or allowing the reader to assume almost nothing.
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I completely agree with what Nate is saying. I myself, wondered whether the family that took in the little boy at the end were of good nature or bad. The mystery in this directly correlates with the secret of how other surviving humans were living. The author's goal, it seems, is to give the reader little information, leaving a wide range of scenarios to conceptualize. The narration is interpretted through one's imagination and leaving such details out will allow the reader to develop his or her own adaption.
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