As I worked on my questions for Reading 3 on The Road, I noticed something that really grabbed my attention. The “fire” in this part of the reading seems to be representing “love”.
As we read on page 145, the old man said, “I’ve not seen a fire in a long time, that’s all. I live like an animal. You don’t want to know the things I’ve eaten.” This I believe, is referring to the fact that the old man had not experienced love in a long time as he said "I live like an animal." and he was feeling loved as they were feeding him , which no one else had fed him before. As we read on page 143, when the father is questioning the old man, the father says “People give you things. Yes. To eat. To eat. Yes. No they don’t. You did.”
We also see it earlier in the story when the old man looked at the boy, the author also mentions the fire on page 143, “Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave. He lifted his head and looked across the fire at the boy. Then he looked at the men.” This could be showing that the old man saw love in the boy. In addition to that, on our reading 4, the Father mentions that there could be a Father and a boy on the other side of the ocean, the boy asks “And they could be carrying the fire too?” And, we have seen through the story that the fire is something they are carrying and others aren’t.
I think, this symbolism of the fire could be important to our reading because this could be the author's implication of love in his own relationship with his son and how he views the lack of love in the world. This could mean that, according with the author the world around us is lacking that kind of love and perhaps the author only sees that love through his son or in their relationship. As it is told that he wrote this book in dedication to his own son.
We can also use this symbolism to reflect in the author's implication to the idea that no one is carrying the fire to think about the world around us. Does the world seems like it needs love? Perhaps we could ask ourselves are we carrying the "fire", the true "fire"?
As we read on page 145, the old man said, “I’ve not seen a fire in a long time, that’s all. I live like an animal. You don’t want to know the things I’ve eaten.” This I believe, is referring to the fact that the old man had not experienced love in a long time as he said "I live like an animal." and he was feeling loved as they were feeding him , which no one else had fed him before. As we read on page 143, when the father is questioning the old man, the father says “People give you things. Yes. To eat. To eat. Yes. No they don’t. You did.”
We also see it earlier in the story when the old man looked at the boy, the author also mentions the fire on page 143, “Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave. He lifted his head and looked across the fire at the boy. Then he looked at the men.” This could be showing that the old man saw love in the boy. In addition to that, on our reading 4, the Father mentions that there could be a Father and a boy on the other side of the ocean, the boy asks “And they could be carrying the fire too?” And, we have seen through the story that the fire is something they are carrying and others aren’t.
I think, this symbolism of the fire could be important to our reading because this could be the author's implication of love in his own relationship with his son and how he views the lack of love in the world. This could mean that, according with the author the world around us is lacking that kind of love and perhaps the author only sees that love through his son or in their relationship. As it is told that he wrote this book in dedication to his own son.
We can also use this symbolism to reflect in the author's implication to the idea that no one is carrying the fire to think about the world around us. Does the world seems like it needs love? Perhaps we could ask ourselves are we carrying the "fire", the true "fire"?
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