The RoadNamed one of the four major novelists of his time, Cormac McCarthy has won numerous awards such as the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2009 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, which places it in the highest rank of American literature. His tenth and final novel, The Road (2006), known as his most traumatic yet intensely personal work, won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Literature, as well as the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (2007) and the Quill Book . Award (2007.) The Road is one of three novels that were made into a film and was released theatrically in 2009. Nominated for several film awards and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Road is a profound and deeply shocking book. looking at the devastating annihilation of human civilization. The Road is a post-apocalyptic story of a journey undertaken by a father, the man, and his young son, the boy, "each other's world" (McCarthy, p. 6). The man and the boy, supported by love, travel across desolate and gloomy America some years after a huge and inexplicable cataclysm has destroyed almost all of humanity and the environment. The land is covered in ash, is extremely dark and cold with recurring rain, gray snow and earthquakes. Throughout the novel the boy calls the man "daddy" and they both refer to themselves as the "good guys" who bring the fire; “the “bad guys” are other human survivors who have become cannibals. The man, haunted by dreams and memories of his childhood and of his wife who committed suicide at the time of world destruction, protects his son from hunger and attacks, even as he himself realizes that he is dying. Both father and son rumma...... middle of paper ....... Looking at these effects, it is obvious that they revolve around how the headed end of the world has affected humanity. The journey that the man and boy took through depressing America actually reveals the reality of Judgment Day. We all come from unpredictable societies and unfortunately we poison everything we come into contact with and we simply don't care when it comes to our environment. “On this path there are no men of God. They left and I remained and they took the world with them. Question: How does never being differ from that which never was” (McCarthy, p. 32)? This quote gives an idea of ​​the type of catastrophe that may have befallen the world and that the prophets have left, taking the world with them. Whatever happened to humanity in the novel, The Road, has been completely destroyed along with the moral principles that the man and boy, even we, value..