SMAC

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Simone Michael Cov Adam Catherine

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How does reading the road help identify with tragedies?

If this world was as strong as it is, the Road could easily become a reality. it highlights how easily a tragedy could occur, and the ramifications of a tragedy. How family can help you cope with a tragedy.It shows that how the leader acts in a tragedy determines how you act (when the father keeps the light on even through they need to save resources, helped keep the child calm and innocent.) Their desperation to be safe, by trying to find food, protection, and shelter is an example of how tragedy can cause humans to go to their lowest spot
 * The little boy is slowly losing his hope and will to survive. This is turning out to be very problemactic for the father because when he tells the little boy to do things, he doesn't care enough to do them. Since he's so young he doesnt fully understand the severity of their situation.
 * With the scarcity of their materials, the boy and man are becoming frail and weak - ,making it harder for them to continue on their journey.

In life there are answers you cannot know. (Yes and sometimes it is just best not to know things.)
 * Vocab Miser**
 * __Dessicated__ (185). - to dry out
 * __Vestibular__ (185). - refers to your sense of balance. Your sense organs that tells you which way is up and which ways your head is accelerating is the [|semicircular canals] . They are closely related to your hearing.
 * __Sappers__ (79). - A soldier employed in the fortifications of trenches or tunnels
 * __Portico__ - a structure consisting of roof supported by columns and piers usually attched to the porch. "Double stairs that swept up to the columned portico." (204)
 * __Vigilant__ - to keenly watch for danger "we have to be vigilant" (217)
 * __Outsized__: extremely large
 * __Corrugate__: wrinkled or furrowed
 * __Tempral__: Temporary ;
 * Quotes for the test : Pick 3 out of 5 to relate to a theme in the book.**
 * "Even now some part of him wished they'd never found this refuge. Some part of him always wished it to be over" (154).
 * "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).
 * "Did you have any friends? Yes. I did.....What happened to them? They died. All of them? Yes. All of them" (59).
 * "The boy drank and handed it back. Drink some more. You drink some, Papa. Okay" (202).
 * "It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too. I guess God would know it. Is that it? There is no God. No? There is no God and we are his prophets" (170).
 * Themes**

There are good things and bad things to choose from. (Yes, not everything is one sided.)

Others, who share your values, can help you. (Yes, then you can get different a point of view from someone who knows about it as well.)

Survival / Hope / Fear / Sadness / Desire / Never Giving Up / Fighting