Sabrina


 * Vocabulary Miser Pages 1-50**

Riprap: A foundation or wall (structure) that seem irregular. (13)

Effigie: A roughly made version of a particular person or thing. (22)

Starkly: Severe or bare in appearance or outline.

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 * Connection Master Pages 51-102**

This section talks a lot about the depression that the mother was going through and how she saw death as her "lover". I can't personally relate to this but I know that sometimes people reach a point where they feel hopeless and that death is the only answer. Depression is a very real thing that exists in society today just like in this book.

Natural disasters occur in the US sometimes and in my opinion are like this "apocalypse earth" but on a way smaller scale. People in this book such as the men who ride around the country looking for prey, can be described as inhuman and perhaps crazy. The disaster caused them to lose their sense of humanity and in the situation of a smaller natural disaster, people have been known to lose their sense of right and wrong as well. People steal and murder because they become desperate and let fear overtake them. I don't think anyone has gotten to the point of cannibalism yet, but that lack of right and wrong is still there, just on different scales.

At one point in the reading the man flashes back to when the mother was still with them and they came across a dog in their travels. The boy was very adamant about not hurting the dog and I feel like I can personally relate to his unwillingness to kill or hurt the animal. I would never be able to kill an animal or pet even if it would help me survive.

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 * Discussion Director Pages 103-154**

Why was the man so unwilling to help the people in the basement?

Would the man have been able to kill his son if it meant protecting him?

Why is the boy unable to let go of the thought of other little boy?

Was it the right idea to leave the safety of the bunker?

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 * Literary Luminary Pages 155-230**

"People were always geting ready for tomorrow. I didnt believe in that. Tomorrow wasnt getting ready for them. It didnt even know they were there" (168).

"Where men cant live god fare no better" (172).

"He'd not have thought the value of the smallest thing predicated on a world to come. It surprised him. That the space which these things occupied was itself an expectation" (186).

"When your dreams are of some world that never was or of some world that never will be and you are happy again then you will have given up. Do you understand? And you cant give up. I wont let you" (189).

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 * Vocabulary Miser Pages 231-END**

Seethed (237) - Filled with intense but unexpressed anger

Dredged (244) - Bring up or clear. Bring to one's attention

Wimple (286) - To bend, curve, or turn (like a river or road)