The Fire Is Real

Published: Feb. 10, 2021, 8 a.m.

b'\\u201cThe last pages of Cormac McCarthy\\u2019s The Road are about the hardest thing any father will ever have to read. The man is dying. He knows it. He knows it means leaving his boy alone\\u2014alone in a terrible world. He knows he has just a few minutes left to teach, to prepare his son for life without him. What does he does? What does he say?\\u201dUsing this example from Cormac McCarthy\\u2019s \\u201cThe Road,\\u201d Ryan explains why we should teach our children about the goodness that is already within them, on to...'