the road rat scene

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Mccarthy uses the boy's toy truck to foreshadow the coming of the truck full of the 'bad guy's' , to help us understand the realistic life that the man and the boy now live in. That the description that they use shows a negativity of the world and show the men in 'bio hazard suits' and 'masks' showing some disordered and that the world in dangerous, these men are also consider the 'bad men.' He describe the truck that the men are in as ' lumbering and creaking like a ship' due to it showing the way that the truck is old and worn out, and also refers to Noah's ark and is ironic as they lived when the were on the ark these most likely are going to die. he then goes on to describe the road rat in so much detail as he is trying to slow the time down so that the next bit seems very sudden and sharp, as he goes from this long description to a quicker, snappy bit.we learn a lot about the man as he shows that he has a lot of knowledge as he knows the information about the brain as well as the ability to drop and roll whilst able to shoot the road rat in the head these skill don't just come to people normally these are skills that are taught which implies he had a different job. then the man hears the voice of his wife before she dies. then these men don't chase after them as they don't know how many people are there and the believe they might not be able to fight them or the are weak and hungry to care about fighting them. It takes the man along time to wipe the gore as it isn't that important to them, as living and eating is more important. As the man had been trying to keep them alive by moving around  therefore cleaning, they wouldn't have had the time.