This is an article on The Road and "The Allegory of the Cave"
tp://journals.tdl.org/cormacmccarthy/index.php/cormacmccarthy/article/view/852/616
More about The Road
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/books/review/Kennedy.t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.themodernword.com/reviews/mccarthy_road.html
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n02/philip-connors/crenellated-heat
http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2639&context=etd
http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/013_04/499
http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/013_04/499
http://network.bepress.com/explore/arts-and-humanities/english-language-and-literature/literature-in-english-north-america/?facet=publication_facet%3A%22Cormac+McCarthy+Conference%22
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/447754/summary
http://search.proquest.com/docview/198091990?pq-origsite=gscholar
This article will help with any questions dealing with God or religion in the novel.
"Yet, in The Road, the question of redemption returns, with allusions to biblical prophets and to the boy as a messianic figure. Three paragraphs into the book, McCarthy conveys the father's thoughts: "Then he just sat there holding his binoculars and watching the ashen daylight congeal over the land. He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: if he is not the word of God God never spoke" (4). The question, however, is: how are we to interpret this language within the context of a world that has collapsed? The context is critical here. How do we read images such as the breath of God and the messianic references to the boy after the end of the world? This is a persisting and unavoidable dilemma for readers of The Road - the moment you think redemption, you encounter its impossibility - the ending has already happened."
