There is no guarantee as to how long humans will be able to survive on Earth given the state they are in. The man is trying to have hope for the future and that is why they make the journey on a seemingly endless road. The man realizes that he won't last long so he pins all his hopes on the boy. As he lies dying, the last thoughts the man gives us are: “Goodness will find the little boy.” This has always been the case. It will still be the case” (McCarthy 281). He passed all the faith to the boy because the boy is the fire, the future, the civilization, the faith, and what the father knows is what is left of the good. In Tim Edwards's "The End of the Road: Pastoralism and the Post-Apocalyptic Waste Land of Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road'" he states: "the man, if not the child, seems to be a kind of anti- - Adam, who literally sees his uncreated world before his eyes” (Edwards 59). He thus says that man is haunted by the past wherever he looks. He constantly remembers everything that was, everything that is not. Nature is a link between the past and the present. It bridges the gap between what once was and its connection to what it has become. He does not reside in nature because he wants to be a part of it, but rather to find refuge from those who wish to harm him. As the man recalls his past memories through his dreams, he realizes the irony of the world and how his son