Getting to the shore...

Desperation is a theme ever present within the novel, McCarthy using the sense of travel to give the impression that the two characters are forever lost, forever feeling like foreigners in their home country.. However, when the characters finally reach their destination, it is sudden and not met with any joy.
'Like the desolation of some alien sea breaking on the shores of a world unheard of.'
McCarthy alienises his characters to give the impression that they have been abandoned by the world itself, as if they have commited a crime worthy of such a lonely punishment. Yet, the father has this continuous push to get to the shore, hoping to find some form of salvation, keeping him somewhat sane in a world forgotten. That hope keeps him willingly 'carrying the fire'
'He could see the disappointment in his face. I'm sorry it's not blue, he said. That's okay, said the boy.'
From this longing build-up to this event, the use of dishearted vocabulary tears any excitment away that i previously felt. Yet, it frustratingly engages me; now they've reached the shore, what will happen now? To turn the beach, our sunny haven, into such a dreary uninhabited place gives the reader the realisation on how distorted this world has become. We dream of blue skies, blue seas, yet the novel slams us back into reality; dreams do not always come true.