In McCarthy's novel The Road, one of the main themes concerns cannibalism and the moral/ethical questions of survival. Although McCarthy negatively portrays cannibalism in this post-apocalyptic world, it is evident that cannibalism is necessary for humans to survive when there is no real food to eat. Whether they know what is actually good versus what is actually bad, they still have a reason to try to survive even if things are absolutely terrible around them. Stay alive, to bring fire for the good of humanity. In a world where everything is coming to an end, people resort to eating each other to survive. Where there are bad and good people, but what does it really mean to be bad? Eating humans or not helping people in need? In this novel the father tries to keep himself and his son alive. The father makes the boy understand that they will never be the bad people who eat other human beings. He makes sure the boy understands that it is wrong and that he should never think of doing it even if he was about to starve. Even if resort...