The Road

Section 3 pages 18-33 question 10

Why doesn't McCarthy directly state the protagonists location? 

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In this post-apocalyptic world, there are no locations-everything is dead. Locations imply a place to meet yet there are no people to meet there. Locations are a human idea for order and there is no order left in the world. 

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