Amy+V

Vocabulary Miser: In Class on 1st day:
 * 1) pg. 8: **Charred**- To partially burn an object so that it’s surface is blackened
 * 2) pg. 14:**Solitary**- Done or existing alone

First reading assignment (15-50)
 * 1) pg. 18 **Tottering**- to move in a feeble way. to shake or rock as if one was about to collapse.
 * 2) pg. 47 **Shorn-** cut off with scissors or shears

Literary Luminator: pgs. 51-102

1. pg. 88-89 "The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat..."

2. pg. 96 "The snow whispered down in the stillness and the sparks rose and dimmed and died in the eternal blackness."

3. pg. 83 "Because we're carrying the fire."

Connection Masta : pgs. 102-154

1. A big connection in my oppinion is about the setting and environment of the book. It really reminds me of the movie called the Book of Eli, with Denzel Washington. The movie is also set in a postapocalyptic world where the main character is on a journey through it. In the movie, the sun doesn't really show, there is ash everywhere, people are crazy and/or cannibalistic, and society is in total chaos. That is just like //The Road.// //2.// Another connection that I thought was awesome was when the man and the boy saw themselves in the reflection of a mirror and were startled because they had not seen themselves in such a long time. (That is on page 132). It says: "They came upon themselves in a mirror and he almost raised the pistol. It's us, Papa, the boy whispered. It's us." I was excited when I read this part because it is just like the book //Night// by Eli Weisel that we read in 9th grade English. In that book he said after his time in the concentration camp, he looked at himself in the mirror and was shocked that he didn't recognnize his own appearance because he had not seen himself for over a year.

Disscussion Director : pgs. 154-203

1. Overall, do you think the boy is more of a help or a hinderance? (pg.**165**) (pg.**176**)

2. Why would the man ask the old man who called himself "Ely" this: "Tell us where the world went"? (pg. **166**)

3. On page **185**, why do you think those three men let the man and boy go so easily? Usually they have more of a fight.

4. How was the boy so calm when they were walking through the road with corpses that had burned in a fire? (pg. **191**)

Vocabulary Miser pg. 205-end

1. promontory pg. 221- A point of high land that juts out into the sea or a large lake; a headland.

2. laddered pg. 250- Something that resembles a latter. (This is how the boy's ribs were)

3. ensepulchred pg. 273- A chamber that is used as a grave.

Extra : I know that quote finding wasn't my job, but I found so many awesome ones that I have to share them. (I'll talk about them in class) -"Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie" pg.238. -"You'll be all right he said. He was terrified" pg. 247. -"I will do what I promised, he said. No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone." 248 -"The thief looked at the child and what he saw was very sobering to him" pg. 256 -"A sound without cognate and so without description." pg. 261 -"I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant" pg. 279 -"Do you remember that little boy, Papa?" pg. 280

Extra: One more point I want to say is something I noticed. I realized that McCarthy often makes a similie comparring to something nice in the old world. pg. 206 "They wandered through the rooms like sceptical house buyers." pg. 261 "holding them in his hand and squeezing them like a man checking for ripeness at a fruitstand." pg. 272 "...like icing on a cake."