Reading through The Road, looking for some serious elements that I could discuss, I found the most ridiculously shocking act of stupidity that I've ever read in a book throughout my whole life!!! I think that the extract is the only explanation needed:
"The waterfall fell into the pool almost at its center. (...) He turned and swam out to the falls and let the water beat upon him." (p. 38)
Is this for real??? Who in a reasoning state of mind could EVER think of swimming in the freezing cold the author describes in the book??? I even got to think that this may be foreshadowing of some sickness caught by one of the characters, because swimming in a place where there is snow and where you don't got any spare clothes or even shelter to get dry is simply so stupid that I'll guess that the kid will get pneumonia or some other horrible disease.
Lets just think about the hypothetical case where the kid dies of a cold or flu and the man is left alone in the middle of the road with the corpse of his dead son and a feeling of guilt that would provably drive him mad. The last thing I will say is that "if the kid dies, I TOLD YOU SO..."
To conclude, here is a video that represents the one and only more stupid thing that the one in the book:
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