MAAS

Meggie Anna Allegra Sara

Constitution Discussion Notes: Discussion Notes:
 * 1) 1. Come prepare
 * 2) 2. Respect others in the group
 * 3) 3. Have fun
 * 4) 4. __#|Participate__
 * 5) 5. Communicate
 * 1) Who are the characters we are following?
 * 2) Papa
 * 3) The boy
 * 4) Confusing not having names
 * 5) What is their goal?
 * 6) Their goal is to go south.
 * 7) The boy is making sure his father doesn’t die, because he doesn’t know how to survive by himself.
 * 8) It is difficult for a child of his age to have to learn that there is no way to help the man that was stuck by lightening.
 * 9) The boy had never seen the world before the world went bad.
 * 10) Man’s wife killed herself because she thought that they were going to die anyways. She knew there was nothing to live for; she thought what the point in living was if they were going to suffer.
 * 11) A little hint of maybe she is still alive.
 * 12) The boy wished that he was dead as well.
 * 1) what event caused the world to be contaminated?
 * 2) Do you think the man will ever give up? How bad does it have to get before he stops.
 * 3) if the son dies how would the man react?
 * 4) he believes that there is no reason to live without his son.
 * 5) His father is trying to be a good dad, even though everything is bad around.
 * 6) the only purpose of the dads living is his son.
 * 7) if the man's son died then he would give up.
 * 8) Son wouldn't know how to live without his father.
 * 9) The son doesn't show emotion. His morals are different than kids are today.
 * 10) he hasn't been taught differently. His whole life is looking for food and trying to find a safe place to live for the night.
 * 11) The son is always asking if they are going to die, it is almost like he wants to die.
 * 12) What was the man's life like before the world was changed?
 * 13) The killing didn't have any emotional effect.
 * 14) The son doesn't understand the idea of easy words.
 * 15) how old is the son? when was he born and was he born at the beginning of the contamination?
 * 16) The mom left because she believed there was no way they could survive.
 * 17) Why does the son answer in quick short points?
 * 18) he possibly wasn't __#|educated__.
 * 19) he has just been with his father.
 * 20) he has no other people to communicate with.
 * 21) good and bad guys.
 * 22) how he gets his son to understand the idea of good and bad, who to trust.
 * 23) The man has morals.
 * 24) the son is piecing things together, but he doesn't understand why they are bad.
 * 25) The only reason the man is running is for the safety of his son.
 * 26) The father is torn because he knows it is bad for his son, but there is nothing he can do for their lives.
 * 27) The son wants to help the little boy in the old town, where his father grew up.
 * 28) hallucinations from the boy
 * 29) they steal coats and blankets for them so they can stay warm, and dry.

9/10/12
 * 1) what do you think the boy was thinking on the first few pages?
 * 2) he was probably confused and scared because he had a vague knowledge of the "bad guys" but he wasnt sure if they were going to live or die?
 * 3) the people in the basement, how did you react?
 * 4) felt like i was in a horror movie.
 * 5) kept picturing the people trying to get help and survive?
 * 6) was it a smart idea to leave the people or should they have stayed behind.
 * 7) it wasnt their problem to fix so there was no need for them to stay.
 * 8) the best they could have done was killed them.
 * 9) the room was something easy to picture but not anything you wanted to see.
 * 10) the revolution on NBC
 * 11) it is related to the story but instead there is a blackout, and many people died.
 * 12) do you think they are going to make it to their destination?
 * 13) we think they are both going to die.
 * 14) but if they make it to the south then we think that the boy will be able to adapt to the world around him.
 * 15) the boy
 * 16) the boy is learning how to survive, and following his father is teaching him how to act around everyone else in the world.
 * 17) the boy will learn how to survive on
 * 18) is it worth survivng in the world?
 * 19) they are losing hope, but the boy has more hope than the father does.
 * 20) he has been brave and been through so much.
 * 21) the father knows that the world before was better, he is losing hope.
 * 22) interdependent.
 * 23) the boy still thinks there is hope, so not telling the son that the father is sick, is keeping him hopeful.
 * 24) humans are just born with the will to live.
 * 25) if this happened today would we be able to survive?
 * 26) yes because of all the technology and we can used processed food to survive and eat.
 * 27) despair
 * 28) having to survive and live knowing they might not live for the next day.
 * 29) the son has more hope than the father because he has been raised in a different way than the father. Ignorance is bliss, so not knowing what the world was like before the contamination has given him a different point of view from the father.

Discussion Notes 9/13/12

What is your opinion of the father now? - Trying hard to be a good father - He is being rude to other people when he doesn’t need to How is the son’s action changing? - He is being to have his own opinion to help other people - He wants to help other people and instead of telling his father then not telling him, he begins to tell his father that they are going to help Why has the father been able to survive this long? - He has survival skills that allow him to survive. Do you think the cannibals are still looking for them? - The cannibals are not just looking for them they are looking for anyone to eat. What do you think will happen next? - The father and the son are going to die What is going to happen to the boy? - The father is getting extremely sick - They are both getting extremely sick? - Father is holding on for the son, and he doesn’t want to leave the son. - The son is so innocent à he trusts more people than his father. Reactions to the father telling the son to kill himself - The best way for the son to die if he had to die Connection to the bible The boy is always having morally correct ideas Humans are born with the right intentions. Son is growing faster than a normal child. The boy is extremely nice to Ely - The man didn’t want to stop and help Ely but his son wanted him to - If it was just the man then he would be acting rude towards a disciple. Only character that has a name- Ely

Discussion Notes: 9/17/12
 * 1) what do you think the meaning of the last paragraph is?
 * 2) saying that the world is never going to be the same.
 * 3) looking back at the happy times
 * 4) no turning back to the old times.
 * 5) was the son's choice about joining the group the right one?
 * 6) smart decision to help him survive.
 * 7) the people were trust worthy
 * 8) was it the right thing for the father to leave the son how he did?
 * 9) he was too sick to keep going.
 * 10) after being hit with the arrow he couldn't keep going.
 * 11) he told his son that he couldn't watch his son die in his arms.
 * 12) he couldn't recover
 * 13) did the son show maturity?
 * 14) he showed that he was grown up at the end then throughout the whole book
 * 15) took care fo the father after he died
 * 16) what are some questions that were left unanswered? are there some things that you would like to know?
 * 17) wanted to know what the names were.
 * 18) how old the son was during the book.
 * 19) the connection between the little boy seen in the town, and the family that takes the son with them.
 * 20) they had been following the father and son throughout the whole story.
 * 21) were the people in the house that shot the arrows, were they cannibals?
 * 22) father was trying to assert the dominance.
 * 23) father was stopping the son from helping
 * 24) son was like we already killed him because they took everything.
 * 25) son is too generous at times.
 * 26) he doesn't think logically at times.
 * 27) worried about others dying instead of others.
 * 28) what does the future hold for the son?