A thought..rethought

When I first started reading this book, I thought that the man wanted nothing more than to live. He was trying so hard to keep the boy and himself alive, always searching for food, always looking for shelter. He even used up one of his precious bullets to save them, when they killed the man who wanted them to go back with him.  After a while though, when they had travelled for a really long time, and had not found any food. They were both starving, and dying slowly, and he admitted to himself that deep down he knew it would be better to just die. He knows there is not really much they will do, that life will always be like this for them, and he realises there is no point to living, they have nothing to live for.