The Road Is a Meaningless Book

"I think this ring's true enough at the end, and i think it's a very poignant ending," he says. "We're all due a little bit of positivity and light from time to time, and especially when it's darkest." The boy slept close to his father that night and held him. But when he woke in the morning, his father was cold and stiff. He sat there a long time weeping. And then he got up and walked through the woods to the road. When he came back, he knelt beside his father and said his name over and over again.