Along The Road

I came to realize something as I continued my way through the book, The Road. It was the mentioning of names because throughout the whole story, there is only one name that is given to us. It was Ely, an old man on the road who spent the night with the protagonists. But the odd thing is that it wasn't his real name, but rather a fake name to tell people whenever they ask him. Just in case he gets hunt down. The funny thing about this part of the book is that both the man and the boy begin to face phenomenal sites that just catches their eyes. The man's days is coming to an end as they find foods in houses to last for a couple of days as they travel to the coast.
How ironic about the road toward the coast can lead them into seeing more and more people. There might be a reason why the coast is the reason why they try so hard to survive at that point. Maybe because they want to see the sunlight to everything. They came to face a thief who took their wheelbarrow with the food and tracked the man to a point where he had to take off all of his clothes. Basically naked. The story speaks of bad people and good people, but the things that the man does is not actually a good doing. I feel like he's drifting himself in by trying too hard to protect what belongs to him and his son. What aspects does he gain by stripping a man naked and taking his clothes for warmth? Also, the guy who shot him with an arrow. Why shoot him with a flare gun when you can do something else? They might've been good people who thought the man and the boy was cannibals. Basically they were protecting themselves at any cost. If the end of the story results the death of the man then I believe that's a good thing. Foreshadows a new life for the boy.