Theme of The Road

One of the themes in the road, and possibly the biggest one is humanity. I say this because in the book everything is has gone bad due to some massive event that caused the sun to be blocked out, the vegetation to die, and the society go mad. Now we wont be able to recongnize one another because of how the event made everything chaotic making us do things we would have neve thought of doing. I know everybody has principles or things they would never do, but in times like these would you steal or kill if it benefited you and your family. Another thing that humans have that makes us not as human is our greed. Some people have an insatiable desire for money and wealth, and they are willing to do bad things to get the money and wealth. An example would be a bank  robber, this is because the bank robber is taking the money from the bank that belongs to people, and he only wants it for his own selfish greed. That is one of the many themes of The Road, but it certainly is a big one because this is what will eventually bring us to our doom, not a meteor or a bomb, but how we are able to live after without working together.