The Road The Man And The Fire Quotes

In the book The Road the man and the boy kept saying “we are carrying the fire” the author kept bringing this quote back into the book when the man and the boy had little hope left. This quote is a symbol of hope and a sign that if they keep going their will be a better outcome eventually. In the movie I am Legend some characters keep referencing the Bob Marley lyric “Light up the darkness” the main character Neville is trying to achieve his life motto, to cure the world of a disease that takes over people. The quote is saying that Neville wants to bring back light and goodness into the world. Both of these quotes they use in the book and the movie symbolize hope in desperate times of need and it shows the characters that good times are ahead. The characters in both of the stories get through very hard times but they preveal and believe that their are better times ahead.

They keep saying this because it makes the boy and the man have hope that something good will come along, and to keep their spirits up even though there life is very hard and tiring. One scene in the book is when the boy asked the man if they would ever eat people, the man said no they would not the reason why was because “we are carrying the fire”. The man is showing the boy that carrying the fire is protecting them, no matter what happens to them that if they are carrying the fire they will be alright. The boy knows that if they are carrying the fire they have a sign of hope and that the world is not over and light will come through. Another scene in the book that brings up carrying the fire is when the father is dying. When the father is dying he tells the son that he now has to carry the fire alone, the boy hesitates because he doesn’t think he is ready for it and he doesn't want his father to leave him but the father knows he is ready. The son knows that he will always be carrying the