McCarthy is able to combine a tragic tale with a heart-warming, father-son story. Living in a post-apocalyptic environment, feeling both chased and abandoned, it's only reasonable to embrace whatever relationship you have left. Their life style is affected drastically, this is seen through the conversations they have. They restrict their conversations to topics related to survival. The tension felt in these conversations is depicted in the following quotation. “We need to eat, he said. Are you hungry? The boy shook his head. No. Of course not.” (McCarthy, 69) The father asks his son wether he is hungry, and he replies by shaking his head, the reader can infer the son is trying to relief some responsibility from his father. The father replies by saying “No. Of course not”, thus implying a similar situation has happened before. This is an example of the limited conversation they maintain in the novel. The sentence structure in McCarthy's novel are short, representing how shallow their life has become.
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