THE ROLE OF FATHER AS A SINGLE PARENT IN MC CARTHY'S THE ROAD

Moch Ichwan Aqilah. 2024. The Role of Father as a Single Parent in McCarthy’s The Road. (Supervised by M. Syafri Badaruddin and Abbas)

This research discusses the role of a father as a single parent for a son in the novel The Road which tells the story of a father and his son living in a dead world, they are forced to survive with difficult conditions. Almost every day they worry about their survival, lack of food and threats to the people they meet are always in their minds. They walked towards the South where they hoped there would be new life but when they arrived there the conditions were the same as they got before.
The structuralism approach is the scientific method used by researchers in analyzing Cormac McCarthy's The Road. This approach discusses the intrinsic elements of The Road such as characterization, plot, setting, and theme. The research data is processed qualitatively and the research results are displayed descriptively.
The results of this study indicate that father has a dual role to care for and protect his child, father is able to present the role of a mother in dealing with his child with love and affection in accordance with the concept of parenting by Lamb there are twenty-one of the total roles of father as a single parent. On the other side, the absence of his wife also gives implications to fathers who act as single parents in caring for his child, there are nine implications experienced by fathers.