Cormac McCarthy's The Road is an end of time novel. It is an easy read about a father and son trying to survive some sort of apocalyptic event. Seemingly everything is burnt. The father and son wear masks to keep out the ash. They are traveling south hoping to get to a warm place, hopefully a better place. The father tries to keep up his son's spirits. He tells him that they are the good guys--the carriers of the fire.
They come across shady, bad guys, cannibals, thieves and other desperate people. It's desolate. The boy keeps his father humane. The boy is the carrier of the fire. The reader can see that the boy is the future and it will be good.
