Why Do You Think The Thief Was An Outcast

Why do you think the thief was an outcast? Suggest reasons why his fingers had been cut away. Why do you think the thief responds to the boy by surrendering? Explain the man’s punishment of the thief. Do you think he did the right thing? How does the boy feel about his father’s action?
The thief was an outcast because he was by himself without anything but the butcher knife and the clothes on his back. The fingers on his right hand had been cut away most likely because he was an outcast probably as a result from going against his commune. Another possibility is that his fingers could have been used as a source of food. The thief sees something “very sobering” in the boy causing him to surrender. The thief finds that the boy represents the idea that there is a hope that humanity still exists as the boy still has a strong sense of what is right and wrong in a world that gone to ash so he is unable to continue to attempt to take everything they
What is McCarthy saying here? Why do you think he used these thoughts to end the story? Do you think McCarthy ended the story with a hint of hope or, do you think he mean to suggest that there was no hope left in the world?
The last paragraph of The Road begins with the word “once” which suggests that the world has lost the last piece of hope left in the world. The trout swimming upstream against the strong currents with its descriptive detail revealed by McCarthy alluded to a beautiful natural world that once was. The trout represents the world fighting to stay the way it is, beautiful and sweet prior to the apocalyptic world that is portrayed in the novel. McCarthy shows that the human race took everything from the world except for the idea that there was one a beautiful world however, I think it is a message to the audience of hope to realize the darkness within humans and keep the darkness from turning the world into a world like The