The Road

The road

Theme that is connected with mother.

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The wife relates to the theme of futility and death, it is ironic that a mother would want to kill herself and her child: it goes against nature. Nature, however, is dead. The mother realizes that old emotions no longer apply in a world that is reduced to savagery breathing its final gasps of air.