DJ's for The Road

Text Evidence	Page #			Analysis
"People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there."	142			McCarthy portrayed a nonchalant attitude in the presence of the father and son. Tomorrow wasn't promised and they were at the breaking point.
“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, don't you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget."	10			McCarthy does a good job with figurative language. He’s believes that things that one puts out of their mind might be important in the end and need to be remembered. And those careless memories that are in our head constantly may need to leave.
"He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe.”	110			The world that they live in are torn down and a desolate one. It leads the reader to believe that this world is post- apocalyptic that will and cannot be restored.
"Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you."	160			McCarthy is saying that when your dreams are non-realistic or not achievable and one is still happy with that dream, that means that person is giving up and  the father refuses for his son to give up.
"The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it.”	24			whats done in the dark eventually comes to the light and this leads the reader to believe that there is something that is being hidden that McCarthy will eventually enlighten the audience on.
“Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”	169			No one wants to live in this destructive world, but no ones wants to die they would just rather know what was going to happen to them.
“There is no God and we are his prophets.”	143			The father has given up spiritually. he believes that if there really was a  God, he would not have put them through all the distress that he has thus far.
"You have to carry the fire. I don't know how to. Yes you do. Is it real? The fire? Yes it is.”		234	The fire carries as a recurring symbol through out the novel symbolizing the urge to keep moving forward despite of the father and his sons' current conditions.
"The world shrinking down about a raw core of passable entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion.”		75	All things of the world that McCarthy created are slowly but surly coming to an end.
“What's the bravest thing you ever did? He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.”		272	Each day is a constant struggle to survive which ties into the theme of survival and resilience.