Omniscient Narrators

In this chapter of How Fiction Works, the author has an interesting discussion about how narrators can seem Omniscient, and not actually be all that omniscient. He mentions that because we are drawn into the narrators mindset, it can seem as if they are all-knowing. I can see what he is saying. When you are completly enveloped in a person's opinions, their ideals and their beliefs, how can it not seem as if they are all knowing?  The Road is interesting way to look at this. You never see any other characters in the novel, and that completly removes any outside opinion, therefore making the father's opinion the only one we know.

This relates to another article we read, 'Forest of Civilzation'. In this article, we discussed how knowledge is affected by religion. The main point is that humans were oblivious to knowledge, and therefore everything they knew was correct. This is the same in The Road, while what the father belives might be wrong, we know no better from the point of view, and therefore he is all knowing. It all goes back to the old argument of 'Does a tree falling the forest with nobody around make a sound?'. I believe that it does, and by beliveing in it, it is the truth. That makes it correct knowledge. If nobody can refute the claim that something is correct, then it is. In extension, if there is only one opinion, it must be the correct opinion, further supporting the view that the narrator is omniscient.