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Book Analysis - The Road

The lettering was in spanish. He started to call to the boy where he trudged ahead and then he looked about at the gray country and the gray sky and he dropped the coin and hurried on to catch up."(McCarthy 203-204).
             This sequence of events can be seen as a direct comment on humanity. Throughout the novel the audience is presented with very few things that are not ruined, or covered with dirt. In this passage one of these objects is presented, the white quartz arrowhead. Quartz is a flashy and shiny mineral, something much different from the gray flint the second two arrowheads were made from. Not only was the quartz arrowhead different in appearance but its condition is described as flawless. Arrowheads are reminders of the past, Native Americans used them centuries ago to survive. The arrowheads that the man and his boy find symbolize what humanity once was. The first one they find is the shiny new perfect version of humanity, the second and third are more flawed yet more efficient version of humanity. The arrowheads represent the survival of humanity. Then the boy comes across this coin "crusted" with debris and sentiment. As he chips off the layers of build-up he sees that it is a Spanish coin. Currency is a very advanced human concept. In the world the boy knows there is no use or need for such a concept. The coin symbolizes the old world. This shiny object covered in the black enamel of this meaningless world can be chiseled away and return it to its original value of meaning. It just requires a little work. This world can be saved it just needs a little work to take it from the ashes and build the world it once was. Earlier in this scene the earth is described as "soft underfoot". This means more than just mushy soil. It means that the world can be wiped down to the shiny clean world it once was. The earth truly isn't this hard merciless place it is interpreted to be rather it is just a little lost.


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