The Road (post3,question4)

What I noticed was that women were put in the position of needing protection which was a different position from the other book "on the road."
In the book The Road you can see that women want to know that they will be protected specially when there is danger. That's why McCarthy showed the conversation between the father and the mother before she left. She told her husband that she couldn't stand the fact that her son and her would not be fully protected as she expected to be and that she knew very well that her husband wasn't going to have the courage to accept the fact when something bad was happening to them or if something bad happened. Later in the book the father admits to himself that she was right about what she said, he realized this when at first the "bad guy" took the kid from the dad and later when they were almost caught in the house.
Another example, is when th father and the son saw the women pregnant with the two guys behind her. It was as if McCarthy was trying to show that maybe that's what the mother wanted, to truly know that she would be protected.

It was like this story that we read in English class called "a day in the park"( or something like that, I don't remember the tittle), it was about a mother, father, and their son going to the park together as a family. While they're sitting on a bench their son us playing in the sandbox, then another kid comes and starts throwing sand at their son. The mother sees everything and what to do something about it but she doesn't because she want her son to stand up for himself. The mom tells the kid( the one throwing the sand) to stop it but then the father of the kid tells him not to because it was a public park ( or something like that). Eventually, the mom looks at her husband for support but her husband doesn't say anything but instead gets up and tells them that they're leaving, the mother is so fustriated at the fact that her husband didn't back her up nor stood up to the man to protect her son. It was the same with the mother from "The Road " she wanted to believe that her husband was able to protect them but she knew that that wasn't true. Which to me it signifies that sometimes women need protection or need someone for support.

To me this is what the book says. In my opinion the mother was wrong because if the father wasn't capable of protecting them then he wouldn't have shot the man that try to hurt the kid.