The Last Coke of The Desert

I find myself trying to write a blog post of The Road, when I just end up finding out that my labrador dog, Manchester, died in the farm today. Just needed to get that out of my head. Anyway, The Road picks up with an interesting part here. The father goes to find an old coke vending machine, and manages to get out the Coca-Cola and give it to his son. ''The boy took the can. It's bubbly, he said. Go ahead. He looked at his father and then titled the can and drank. He sat there thinking about it. It's really good, he said.''

It's incredible how the boy looks at the can and talks about how ''it's bubbly'' as if it was something he had never seen or felt before. I guess that this boy is probably not the only one who has never tasted the refreshing taste of a coke, which most of us take for granted and can find it in the next door store any day of the year. But, here, in a world destroyed by a cataclysmic event, having this Coke is kind of a miracle, and its probably one of the most optimistic parts we'll ever see in the novel, sadly. And the moment is quite remarkable also, because here, it sort of relates to the famous quote ''the last Coke of the desert''. Only that this refers to a real coke not to some arrogant hot gal.