Quite peaceful and beautiful.

A road is an identifiable route, way or path between places. Roads are typically smoothed, paved, or otherwise prepared to allow easy travel; though they need not be, and historically many roads were simply recognizable routes without any formal construction or maintenance.

In urban areas roads may diverge through a city or village and be named as streets, serving a dual function as urban space easement and route. Economics and society depend heavily on efficient roads. In the European Union (EU) 44% of all goods are moved by trucks over roads and 85% of all persons are transported by cars, buses or coaches on roads.

The United States has the largest network of roadways of any country with 6,430,366 kilometres (3,995,644 mi) (2005). The Republic of India has the second largest road system in the world with 3,383,344 kilometres (2,102,312 mi) (2002). People’s Republic of China is third with 1,870,661 kilometres (1,162,375 mi) of roadway (2004)…

The Road is a 2006 novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. It is a post-apocalyptic tale of a journey taken by a father and his young son over a period of several months, across a landscape blasted by an unnamed cataclysm that destroyed all civilization and, apparently, almost all life on earth. The novel was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006.

Plot summary

The Road follows an unnamed father and son journeying together across a grim post-apocalyptic landscape, some years after a great, unexplained cataclysm has destroyed civilization and almost all life on Earth. Realizing that they will not survive another winter in their unspecified original location, the father leads the boy south, through a desolate American landscape along a vacant highway, towards the sea, sustained only by the vague hope of finding warmth and more “good people” like them, and carrying with them only what is on their backs and what will fit into a damaged supermarket cart.
Because of falling ash, the setting is very cold and dark and the land is devoid of living vegetation. There is frequent rain or snow, and electrical storms are common. Nearly all of the few human survivors are cannibalistic tribalists or nomads, scavenging the detritus of city and country alike for human flesh, though that too is almost entirely depleted.
Overwhelmed by this desperate and apparently hopeless situation, the boy’s mother, pregnant with him at the time of the cataclysm, commits suicide some time before the story begins; the rationality and calmness of her act being her last “great gift” to the man and the boy. The father coughs blood every morning and knows he is dying, yet he struggles to protect his son from the constant threats of attack, exposure, and starvation, as well as from what he sees as the boy’s innocently well-meaning, but dangerous desire to help the wanderers they meet. Through much of the story, the revolver they carry, meant for protection or suicide if necessary, has only one round. The boy has been told to use it on himself if capture is imminent, to spare himself the horror of death at the hands of the cannibals.

In the face of these obstacles, the man and the boy have only each other. The man maintains the pretense, and the boy holds on to the real faith, that there is a core of ethics left somewhere in humanity. They repeatedly assure one another that they are “the good guys,” who are “carrying the fire.”
On their journey, the duo scrounge for food, encounter roving bands of cannibals, and contend with casual horrors such as a new born infant being roasted on a spit, and people being kept captive as they are slowly harvested for food. Although the vast majority of the book is written in the third person, with references to “the father” and “the son” or to “the man” and “the boy,” at one paragraph only in the discussion of the journey the story is told in the first person.
Although the man and the boy eventually reach the sea, neither the climate nor availability of food has improved. Despite having succeeded in defending the boy through extreme hardship, the man has failed to find the salvation he had hoped for his son, and succumbs to his illness and dies; leaving the boy alone, though not long before he dies the father tells the boy that he can continue to speak with him in his imagination after he is gone. The boy holds wake over his father’s corpse for three days, with no idea of what he is to do next. However, on the third day, the grieving boy encounters a man who has been tracking the father and son. This man, who has “a woman” and two children of his own, a boy and a girl, invites him to join his family after convincing the boy that he is indeed one of the “good guys” like the boy and his dead father. A brief epilogue following meditates on nature and infinity in this altered environment.
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