The father and son are on the point of starvation when they discover an underground bunker filled with food (McCarthy 138). ... But the sailboat named after the dove brings a message of despair; it originates from Tenerife, a Spanish island off the coast of Africa. ... This old man has survived not through divine assistance but rather through random chance; he and all the other survivors of the catastrophe are prophets of atheism, bearing witness to the absence of God from the universe. ... There is a growing body of evidence from sociology and psychology that indicates that the happiest natio...

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