What Is The Boy Persuasive Essay

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Throughout the novel it always remains present how much The Man is willing is do for the sake of the survival of The Boy, he goes as far to say, "You wanted to know what the bad guys looked like. Now you know. It may happen again. My job is to take care of you. I was appointed to do that by God. I will kill anyone who touches you. Do you understand?
Yes”(61).The Man is almost constantly demonstrating his love, the evidently by his unflinching choice to shoot and kill the man that threatened The Boy’s life. In the story The Man doesn’t kill for food or out of ill will. He will only hurt anyone who simply wishes to kill The Boy. The precautions that he takes towards strangers is justified but is primarily for The Boy’s protection. In one point …show more content…

In The Man’s point of view that is only an option if The Boy is imminently harmed.This could be why whenever The Man is exploring potentially unsafe locations that he leaves the pistol with The Boy. In The Man and The Boy’s perspective they “each the other’s world entire”, because of The Man’s intense love for The Boy it gives him the will to persevere. As well as The Boy can be seen to be a remaining sign of god’s existence because he gives The Man aspirations for the future. In the beginning of the novel not much is said and you can describe their love as stark and silent but that is only due to their existence being survival from day to day. The statement “I love you” is never really said however it is implied, when given the opportunity The Man will show his love in other ways for example, giving The Boy the Coca-Cola. The Man will alway attempt to give The Boy “treats” when ever he has the chance. To The Boy he is frequently looking to The Man for faith, consolation and safety. In the desolate and weather-beaten world that they now live in The Man can only really show his love for The Boy out of remoteness of the hope and despair that he now

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