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I. At the end of the novel, McCarthy leaves us with a good amount of unfinished business. We never find out who the people are that the boy goes with, we don't know what happens to the fathers body when they leave, we don't know where they go or if they even get there. It also seemed that the people had been tracking the boy and papas progress.
II. This is just like the secrets established in the beginning of the novel, when you dont know what happend, you dont know where they are, you dont know if "papa" is the boys father or just some guy who is taking care of him. Both secrets i am discussing leave the reader in the dark not knowing to much about anything going on in the book at all.
III. In my opinion i don't believe that the secret is that big of a deal to the novel because its the end, if McCarthy had wanted us to know what happened he would have either told us or left us a sufficient amount of evidence to let us draw our own conclusions on the ending.
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I agree, I think McCarthy intentionally left everything open for us to make our own assumptions about. He wanted us to form our own opinions on what happened where he leaves off. I think this really adds to the tone of the novel because in a way, lets us feel a bit of what the characters themselves are experiencing. Through the text, the boy and Papa really don't know anything--whether there are good people out there, if they will find somewhere to survive, if there is some place that has managed to survive this apocalypse that can still grow food. Everything is meant to be ambiguous because the world that The Road takes place in is a world of uncertainty. We don't know if the boy will be safe with the people who have taken him in because the boy himself doesn't know if he will be safe with them. Leaving this all open is a very effective strategy.
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