With Love

I certainly agree that this is a love story, it was poignant for me when I was reading about how much the man loved his son. McCarthy uses actions and situations to show the love the man has for his son. This is obviously reciprocated. One of my favorite parts was the scene where the man uses the last of the cocoa for his son. His son then makes his dad share part of it, even though he had selflessly given up the cocoa his son equally selflessly made him share it. The man obviously lives for his son and would have given up long since without the love he feels for the boy. Something I really liked was when they had to empty out the shopping cart, one of the things found in there was a toy truck, and this was just one of a few toys that the man hauls around with him. It would have been easy enough to give him only one toy, or not take the trouble to haul any toys around at all and yet he still wants to provide in every way possible for his son. Even in the midst of such difficult circumstances.