I didn't say he did. I said that's how the novel reads. The Road is a tediously bland tale of two people slogging through the most generic possible apocalypse while failing to hold a conversation.

It's a dreary playlist of unimaginative atrocities that ends >!on a silly christmas miracle when the boy is picked up by The Last Nice People on Earth when his dad dies.!<

It's easily the most overrated book I've ever read by far.