Post number seven The Inductive Leap

     In The Road by Cormac Mcarthy, the main character who is telling the story goes through a life changing event that brings him and his son closer together by the end of his story. In the begining of the story it is an entire different situation, at first it describes the man and his son walking down a highway full of fear not knowing what to do. Yet as the story goes on the man deals with situations thought of on his own and the boy follows him, trusting his father is making the right decision. The boy is very curious in the story by always asking questions to his father and learning how to survive in the new world they have been placed in. The father makes many inductive leaps in the book, when they are in a situation and his son offers a logical outcome that could save them, the father declines the idea based on the boys age. "Cant we help him Papa? No. We cant help him. There's nothing to be done for him." (McCarthy 57). However there are moments in the story when the father reaches out to the son in order to become closer to his son, to establish a relationship. "Please don't do this. I'm sorry. I can't do it alone." The father says that he can't do it alone to his son because the son is threatening to leave and the father is scared to lose the one thing he feels he must protect.