Father and Daughter

          In "The Road" the main bond and relationship expressed is the relationship between Father and son. They both care deeply about each other even though they both feel as if they are not really sure what the other person is thinking. The lack of understanding they have of each other makes their relationship more distant but their dependency for each other keeps them together. They are each other's world and they must trust each other and work together in order to survive and keep existing in this bleak post apocalypse world they live in.           My father and I have a similar relationship to the father and son in which I do tend to trust and lean on my Dad more than my Mom. My Dad and I aren’t big communicators but we have a trust and respect foundation the same way the man and son do. We do not feel like we need to express everything we feel and think in the moment but at the end of the day I know we can depend on each other in case of anything. My mother and I have a good relationship as well, one in which communication plays a greater role. This differs from the boy and his mother’s relationship in which the mother abandoned them because her love for her son was too great to watch him suffer. Because of the abandonment though, the boy probably feels as there is no trust or connection between his mother and him.