The Road is the only post-apocalyptic story that I have completely read. I am currently in the middle of reading, along with my inquiry project book, World War Z by Max Brooks. World War Z is a novel about interviews a man did on survivors of a zombie apocalypse. The interviews explain how the apocalypse started, how it was solved, and how people lived afterwards. While The Road and World War Z are both the same genre, they are completely different. While The Road follows the story of an unnamed father and son duo, World War Z follows multiple people and multiple stories. Also, while the reader is told that World War Z is a about a zombie apocalypse, we are never told what caused the apocalypse in The Road.
The story/movie I thought of when I was reading The Road was the movie The Book of Eli. While The Book of Eli followed the character Eli, carrying the last surviving bible to the coast, The Road, is very similar in that the boy and the man are traveling south. We are told that the apocalypse in The Book of Eli was caused by a nuclear fallout. There a lot of similarities in the experiences the characters from both stories face. Both face cannibalism, having to fight for survival, a shortage of supplies, and in the end, death. They also share a religious kind of theme.
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