The Road

Symbols and themes

Explain how the flute is a symbol and what theme it ties to

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The father attempts to make something beautiful. Perhaps he wants to remind the boy that there was once beauty in the world: there was art and there was music. The boy ends up throwing away the flute. This represents the boys understanding that the flute no longer belongs in a world that has lost its humanity. The boy is perhaps the only good force left in the world and even he feels disillusioned.