Fragments

The fragments McCarthy uses to write the book lead you to understand the fragmented life of both the man and his son. Their lives are unstructured in every aspect and he gives us fragments to better understand their broken day-to-day life and their personal experience on the road: Pieces of dreams, experiences, road, towns, people, animals, ash. The road they travel is fragmented; by creating the writing in a fragmented sense McCarthy is creating the setting of the road, giving emotion to the road that the man and his son travel on.

He also introduces the reader to a sense of scavenging. While the man and his son are scavenging, McCarthy leads the reader through all of the bits and pieces he gives us to understand the story, and in a sense, scavenge what we learn and read survive to the end with the man and his son.