The Road
The Road
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- shitehawke0
I have not seen the film, but I have read the book.
The reason the world has become so devastated is never mentioned in the book, merely hinted at. Surely that makes for a more realistic depiction of what happens next. Government has collapsed and communications have broken down. The people don't know why the world is ruined they just have to learn to survive in it.The reason the kid has never seen a coke can is because it was never there, he was born into a land devastated, no proper food, society, nothing.
That part of the book was the worst bit for me actually, something so meaningless as a can of coke to us is completely new to the boy. And he will never have another one.