Section 17 pages 205-213 q 4

I predicted pretty well what happened. The land near the ocean brings no sense of solace or respite. The place is dead and scattered  with various dangerous people. How could the place be any different from the rest of the world that is breathing its last gasps? 

The coast will not be the happy refuge that the man and the boy had anticipated, and I do believe they will make it there because it would be silly if both the man and the boy died before the novel ended.