The Cause of all...

When we first start reading The Road, we notice that the world has been raided by some kind of apocalypse. The reason of this apocalypse remains unknown and this may be because the author expects us to interpret this as a cause of our own or something like that kind of profound stuff, but I still can't stop asking myself, what happened to the world of The Road?!? After reading further into the novel, I found something that may be the answer to my suffering.

The enlightenment came to me as a snowball hitting the head of a child on a winter paradise.                                       

                                                       

 And guess where I found the clue... 

Eh... yep on the book.

(Jaja, Headshot!!!)

It was made clear to me when the kid ingenuously asks his father that if "...there could be fish..." (p. 22) in a lake they see from the top of a hill, but the real stuff is in his father's answer, "there's nothing in the lake." Is not one of my clearest explanations, but the as I said, this appeared in my head. Could it be something like a pollutant that got into the water and as it followed waters cycle it got into all over the world? Makes sense to me... this could explain the gray snow and water. But simply can't explain why society collapsed, I honestly hope that the answer is deeper in the novel, because I'm almost banging my head against the wall trying to figure it out. 

(OMG!!! Is the evil pollutant!!!)