Although he
is struggling to maintain his humanity, in the opening of reflects the
dehumanizing tendencies of his society. He goes to see a violent war movie and has violent
fantasies towards , though he does not even know her name. After he becomes involved with her
and they fall in love, he begins to truly reclaim his humanity: he has someone to protect, love
and be loyal to, someone he can share time and space with in the room above Mr. Charrington's
shop. In this room, he and Julia replicate normal, loving human life before the Party took
over.
In the ruins of the post-apocalyptic world of The
Road, it is the relationship of the father and the son and the love they share as
they travel south with their shopping cart that keeps them human. When they see a group,
including a pregnant woman, roasting a newborn baby on a spit, the contrast becomes clear: the
father would never sacrifice the son that way, and so the two become an emblem of humanity in
the dystopic dog-eat-dog world all around them.
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