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* [[No Name Given]]: No characters are named throughout the novel.
* [[Papa Wolf]]: The father.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: A couple from {{spoiler|the scavengers who pick up the boy at the end of the book}}, showing that they're safe and trustworthy people to be around. {{spoiler|They [[Due to
* [[Rape
* [[Scenery Gorn]]: So very much. In this world, ashes fall like snow.
* [[Shrug of God]]: [[Word of God|The author]] has offered a few possible explanations for the world-ending disaster, and said that he himself has no opinion on the subject. See also [[The Un-Reveal]].
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: There's a whole cottage industry that's sprung up around debating this question. As noted in the description, there's a group that believes the book is mind-shatteringly depressing. There's another group that believes [[The Road]] is, through all the death and misery, a chronicle of the strength and beauty of the human spirit.
* [[Survivalist Stash]]: Our heroes benefit from several of these. The most spectacular example is detailed in [[Hope Spot]], above.
* [[Throw the Dog
* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]
* [[The Un-Reveal]]: What happened to the world and how it happened is only mentioned in bits and pieces, not enough to come to a conclusion. The novel is more about the eventual fate of its two characters more so than the mystery of the past.
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* [[Shout-Out]]: The Lonely Planet New Zealand guidebook. Australia and New Zealand are set up as possible safe havens in numerous post-apocalyptic works, including ''On The Beach'' and ''The Chrysalids''. In addition, [[The Film of the Book]] ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' was filmed there. See also [[Actor Allusion]].
* [[Thousand-Yard Stare]]: Ye Gods.
* [[Throw the Dog
** On top of that,{{spoiler|it was mentioned in the beginning of the movie that every animal died.But they find a beetle towards the end.Not to forget,the family in the end has a rather healthy dog.}}
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