The Price of Luck

In Cormac McCarthy's interview with Oprah, he mentions several things that are also shown through the book.  He says that he has never cared too much about money, because for him the most important thing is to do the things that make you passionate. In the book, this is reflected trhough the fact that the characters never talk about money, nor care about becoming powerful or superior. They are only struggling to survive and to reach a better future.

Another important aspect disscussed in the interview is McCarthy's luck. He starts the topic by saying that when he was younger he lived in Kentucky and he had a job housesitting (because he was homeless and broke). One day, he heard someone knocking on the door, and unexpectedly, received a check from a foundation worth 20thousand dollars. Oprah asks him if he considers himself lucky, and he responds that in the world's "luckiness" can be seen as a bell graph, where people move either to the "lucky" or "unlucky" side through their life. He says that currently he felt on the lucky side, but that he has never done anything to deserve it, so things may change in any moment.

This relates to the book's character's life, since in some scenes they appear to be unfortunate and cursed, but on the other hand, they face many situations where they survive mainly due to luck. For example, after they though they were going to starve to death, they found the bunker with food and supplies inside:

He stood the lamp on  the step and went up and took the boy by the hand. Come on, he said. It's alright.                                                                                                                         What did you find? I found everything. Everything. Wait till you see." (pg 138 - 139)