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>>> Sometime. Not now.” (10) > “Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other’s world entire.” (8)
 * ** “You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.” (12)
 * § What does this foreshadow about the book?
 * o “Are we going to die?
 * § How do you think these two people feel about the situation?
 * § What does do you think he means by “sometime”?
 * § What relationship do you think the boy and the man share?

>> What is the point of the man teaching the boy how to swim? >> Do you think the boy will ever be able to have a childhood?
 * "He said the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor and death." (18)
 * Why does the man feel this way about his dreams?
 * Is he trying to repress something?
 * "But he knew if he were a good father still it might be well as she had said. That the boy was all that stood between him and death." (29)
 * What would happen to the man if he didn't have the boy?
 * "The boy didn't answer. Then he said: The winder wasn't turning." (37)
 * What does this say about the boys psyche?
 * What do you think was the subliminal message for the crazy penguin?
 * "He held him and floated him about, the boy gasping and chopping at the water. You're doing good, the man said. You're doing good" (39)

Vocabulary!

Siwash (68)- to camp without tents, to camp with only natural shelter

Meconium (59)- the first fecal excretion of a newborn child, composed of bile, mucus, and epithelial cells

Frieze (90)- an ornamental band or strip on a wall

Connections Master!

What really struck me from this reading was the condition that the people under the basement were in. I have read //The Road// before and this was one of the scenes that stuck out in my head a lot. I had been waiting for it to come, and when it did it was still as striking as it was the first time. The people in the basement that were crying out and calling for help reminded me of the infected people that I had seen in the movie //I am Legend.// They were naked and the shied away from the light at all costs as they gathered into a corner. These "zombies" were nothing at all human, they were monsters and shells of their human selves. They had human emotions and their habits had turned them into something unrecognizable. This is just like the people that were awaiting their death in the house. They too had become zombies because of the sheer terror that they were under. Like the infected, they hid from the light and did not know how to respond once they saw it.

Quotes!!!

"What if they tried and they just got half way or something and then they were too tired? Would they fall back down?" (157)

"Where men can't live gods fare no better. You'll see." (173)

"...he'd sometimes see a light. Dim and shapeless in the murk. Across a river or deep in the blackened quadrants of a burned city. In the Morning sometimes he'd return withe the binoculars and glass the countryside for any sign of smoke but he never saw any." (188)

"Do you think that your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledgerbook? Against what? There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground." (198)

Quotes!!!!

"He set the empty tin between his feet. Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie" (238).

"No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone" (248).

Here they camped and when he lay down he knew that he could go no further and that this was the place where he would die." (277)

"She said that the breath of God was his breath yet though it pass from to man through all of time." (286)