The Road VS The Pursuit of Happyness

As I read the book, it reminded me of two movies. One movie was called The Pursuit of Happyness. It premiered in late 2006, and featured Will Smith and his son Jaden. Will Smith plays Chris Gardener, who after investing his entire life savings his portable bone-density scanners, ended up homeless. His wife was unable to deal with their new lifestyle. She decided that it was best for their son, who was about five at the time, to stay with his father while she relocated to New York. A very similar situation occurs in The Road as well. The boy’s mother did not want to deal with living in a post-apocalyptic world. She decided that killing herself was the solution and that it was the father’s responsibility to care for the boy. Both mothers took the easy way out, which I found interesting. Even though only one of them died, they both were in a sense dead to the child they left behind. Neither child had contact his mother. So for Christopher, even though his mother was alive, she was dead to him because he never really knew her son. Another similarity is how we see the survival of both the father and the son is dependent upon each other. A number of times, in both The Road and in The Pursuit of Happyness both fathers had moments when they felt as if they couldn’t bear their circumstances any longer. It was their sons that held them together and kept them going.

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Would I Just End It All?

It would be very difficult to make a decision. Once I've made my choice I would not be able to go back and do it over if the outcome isn't what I'd hoped for. First, I need to be aware of all circumstances. Am i alone or do I have someone else to look after, like a younger sibling or any other relative? If I have a situation like the father in the book, will I kill the other person as well? Part of me would be a bit curious. However, I would not be able to bear seeing the world as I once knew it completely different from what I was accustomed. Wandering the streets, passing places where memories were made, or even stumbling across corpses of those I once knew is devastating. In the event that I was alone, I would end my life. However, I feel it would be selfish to end my life if I had someone to look after. So in that case, I would have no choice but to stick it out and allow fate to take over.