Dedicated to John Francis McCarthy

In an exclusive interview with the famous Oprah, Cormac McCarthy admits The Road was somehow a love story to his son John Francis. As people ask themselves from where did this tragic love story come from, McCarthy answers it was inspired in his son as they were in a vacation in El Paso. The author tells us he got his ideas as he stared through the window of the hotel in the city, and imagined the place full of fires in fifty or a hundred years. However, he only wrote some pages until he realized four years later in Ireland, that this would become a book. At a first glance, we could have thought that the novel comes just from a picture, but as learning it involves his relationship with his son, we understand that the father-son relationship of the book, might aswell relate with his life. Knowing the information attached to the novel, the novel becomes much more vivid and real. Even though we know the characters and the situation McCarthy describes are only fiction, their lives become a reality. Therefore, everything the father says to his son in the novel might be interpreted as McCarthy's imagination, or much more than that, McCarthy's real love for his son. Through an exageration of tragic life, McCarthy may transmit the real message to his son, "You can't give up. I won't let you". (189) The situation may be fake but the love will always be real.