(59)Undoubtedly so, a common film joke, when families are on a road trip, is for the youngest child to pester the adults with the typical "Are we there yet?" over and over. In The Road, the unnamed child asks questions which do not please the father. While his questions are not nearly as unnecessary as the question of an impatient toddler, the boy’s questions, nevertheless, give the father unwanted thoughts. The father is bombarded with a series of direct questions in staccato style:
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(64) I believe that this style of short questions and answers emphasizes the hopeless heart of the characters and their enchained thoughts. On the other hand, when the father finds the apple orchard, the paragraphs seem to bloat with eagerness, in an attempt to send as much information to the reader in one time. As the reader, I shared the father’s relief, when he described how "he went row by row till he'd trod a puzzle in the grass. He'd more apples than he could carry. He felt out the spaces about the trunks and filled his pockets full and he piled apples in the hood of his parka behind his head and carried apples stacked along his forearm against his chest. He dumped them in a pile at the door of the barn and sat there and wrapped up his numb feet." (62)
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