The most important theme in The Road would be the relationship between father and son. This is done on purpose. McCarthy references his son a lot in his interview with the Wall Street Journal. He says, "A lot of the things that the kid [in the book] says are things that John [his son] said." It makes it evident that throughout the process of writing the whole book, McCarthy was thinking about his son. His son even gets something out of the success of the book. McCarthy says that John has the only signed copies of the book so that he can sell them when he's old enough.
His son is brought up several more times in the duration of the interview, and McCarthy mainly says the same things. The theme of father and son would mean most to other fathers. He mentions the fact that he got 3 letters from 3 different people that said essentially the same thing. The dads, after reading, just went to their kids and held them. The relationship between the father and the son in The Road is nothing extraordinary, but the fact that it doesn't change after an apocalypse just goes to show everyone how strong the bond between parent and child goes.
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