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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 ~~The~~ Dead|cover the father with a blanket]] like they'd promised, and insist the boy keeps his gun when he tries to give it to them.}}

* [[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 the Dead|cover the father with a blanket]] like they'd promised, and insist the boy keeps his gun when he tries to give it to them.}}

* [[Rape As Drama]]: Alluded to as one of the many perils on the road - not least because it's often the precursor to [[I'm a Humanitarian|something worse]].

* [[Rape as Drama]]: Alluded to as one of the many perils on the road - not least because it's often the precursor to [[I'm a Humanitarian|something worse]].

* [[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 A Bone]]: The boy {{spoiler|loses his father, his only source of joy, comfort, peace of mind, and protection. Just as the story sets him up to travel the world as [[The Aloner]], the scavengers who'd shot at them earlier come to pick him up... and by [[Pet the Dog|all the available evidence]], they're trustworthy}}.

* [[Throw the Dog a Bone]]: The boy {{spoiler|loses his father, his only source of joy, comfort, peace of mind, and protection. Just as the story sets him up to travel the world as [[The Aloner]], the scavengers who'd shot at them earlier come to pick him up... and by [[Pet the Dog|all the available evidence]], they're trustworthy}}.

* [[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 A Bone]]: On top of {{spoiler|the boy finding a new family in the end like in the book, birds and animals can be heard during the credits, assuring us that the world isn't completely dead and life will go on.}}

* [[Throw the Dog a Bone]]: On top of {{spoiler|the boy finding a new family in the end like in the book, birds and animals can be heard during the credits, assuring us that the world isn't completely dead and life will go on.}}

** 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.}}