He pushed away the plastic tarpaulin and raised himself in the stinking robes and blankets and looked toward the east for any light but there was none. In the dream from which he'd wakened he had wandered in a cave where the child led him by the hand. Their light playing over the wet flowstone walls. Like pilgrims in a fable swallowed up and lost among the inward parts of some granitic beast. (McCarthy 1.1)
I believe that this quote refers to the story of Jonah and the Whale. Jonah was a good man, as well as a prophet. He was supposed to travel to Nineveh and inform the people that they need to repent. He ended up being swallowed by the whale because he failed to inform the people. In my mind the man and the boy are like Jonah and the world has become the belly of the whale. They wander the world of desperate hunger, a world so terrible it would discourage anyone, but they do not give in.
"When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him." (McCarthy 1.1)
Based on what I have read thus far, The Road is extremely violent. McCarthy begins the book very tenderly by showing the love between the father and son. Writers say that it should take the entire first paragraph to present the entire novel. McCarthy explains the book in the first line. To sum it up: Its dark, cold, and bitter outside, but no matter the conditions, no matter the hardship the characters still love each other.
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