The Road Section II

Questions

1.  Why don't people band together and help each other out?
2.  Why did this disaster happen in the first place?

Parallel

"He dreamt of walking in a flowering wood where birds flew before them." (18)

"The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose." (47)

The man dreams about and so desperately wants to see beauty and flowers than even when seeing the horrible sight of human bodies in the truck, he thinks about how the flame looks like a flower.

Contrast

"In his dream she was sick and he cared for her." (32)

The man says: "No.  We can't help him." (50)

The man is always willing to give help to his son (that's what he lives for) and his wife in his dreams, but he doesn't care at all for the poor man they pass by on the road.