Whenever you look at the sky, or even the horizon, it might be a neat color. It is the color of the earth. It is the color of a healthy earth that lives and supports life without much problem. But the very mentioning of a black horizon is enough to send a chill down your neck. It is the idea of death falling upon the planet and those who live in it. This is in page 91 of the word version of the story when they are at the shore camping. The sight of the sea is enough to bring happiness to a mind. But not here. This is a sad sight. No gulls, and no sign of life anywhere. A dead planet.
As we saw the idea of global dimming in class, I came up with a theory. The greenhouse gases
don't allow the rays from the son to go back into space but at the same time, they block it out
from reaching the surface of the earth. It is the same thing that is happening in The Road except
that it is far more exaggerated and simply kills off the life on the planet. In this story, there is only
the empty shell of what once was the green earth. "There is no sea smell" to the ocean and I find
no reason for them to be praying to god. He left that place a very long time ago.
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