The Road Considered one of the four major novelists of his time, Cormac McCarthy has won numerous awards such as the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement 2009. in American Fiction, which places him at the highest rank in American literature. His tenth and final novel, The Road (2006), known as his most traumatic but also intensely personal work, won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 2007, as well as the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (2007) and the Quill Book. Award (2007.) The Road is one of three novels that were made into a film and were shown in theaters in 2009. Nominated for various film awards and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Road is a deeply shocking way to watch the brutal annihilation of human civilization. The Road is the post-apocalyptic story of a journey undertaken by a father, the man, and his young son, the boy, "each other's whole world" (McCarthy, p. 6). The man and boy, buoyed by love, travel across dark and sinister America a few years after a massive, unexplained cataclysm destroyed almost all of humanity and the environment. The land is covered in ash, extremely dark and cold with recurring rains, gray snow and earthquakes. Throughout the novel, the boy calls the man "Daddy", and they both refer to each other as the "good guys" who carry the fire; “the “bad guys” being other human survivors who became cannibals. The man, haunted by his dreams and recalling through flashbacks his childhood and his wife who committed suicide at the time of world destruction, protects his son from starvation and attacks, even though he realizes - even though he is dying. The father and son rumma... middle of paper ....... Looking at these effects, it is obvious that they revolve around how the world's intestate disappearance has affected humanity. The journey the man and boy took through a depressing America truly reveals the reality of a doomsday. We all come from unpredictable societies and unfortunately we poison everyone we come into contact with and we simply don't care about our surroundings. “On this road there are no divine men. They left and I left and they took the world with them. Query: How does “never being” differ from “never being” (McCarthy, p. 32)? This quote gives an idea of ​​the kind of catastrophe that could have struck the world and that the prophets left, taking the world with them. Everything that happened to humanity in the novel The Road has been completely destroyed, as have the moral principles that the man and the boy, even we, value..