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Originally Posted by Abecedary
I'm assuming there were almost zero animals left. He makes mention of animal bones a few times (fish, birds), but that's about it. And the one mention of there being nothing living in the lake (according to the dad). A very barren place indeed.
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That's what I got as well. No birds, no fish, no insects even, though I find it somewhat difficult to accept that ONLY humans remain alive, surely some animals would be eating the humans (as per The Year of the Flood
) and surviving. Humans unaware of the wild would likely be somewhat easy prey.
Another theme which runs through other McCarthy books is the uncaring and random nature of reality/the universe. I think this theme is heightened by what we don't know about the story -- the characters names, the reason for the disaster, even the fallen apart map (which may be a symbol in itself).