Re-read the end of the book. They dumbed it down and blatantly explained it in the film, but the Man's mistrust of people in general prevented the family from intervening sooner. In the book the boy sees one of their kids at one point, and they hear their dog at another, at which point the Man gets paranoid and makes them hurridly move on.
It's all classic McCarthy, really. He aims to depress, and he always succeeds. The only giant difference I noticed was the over abundance of flashbacks featuring the wife. There should have been three at most, and very short ones at that. Otherwise it was a beautiful adaptation and I'm happy to own both the film and book.
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