The Road

Anderson Riddick

Character Sketch

Spoiler

From the first moments of the book The Road we know that the unnamed father is a caring, loving person that is determined to make sure that his son survives although he worried about his own fate. We see him many times in the book prepared to give up because of an unknown sickness that he is suffering from although there are places where the sickness is not mentioned for at least 30 pages at a time leaving the reader to question the severity of it. The father reminds me of Peekay from the power of one because he never gives up and he is very humane. He tries to avoid violence as much as possible but if his son is threatened then he is forced to hurt people which is shown when he says "Look at him one more time and i will kill you" We see this twice in the book and it shows how protective he is. I think is a great man for protecting his son until [spoiler] his death near the end of the book [end of spoiler]