CKG+-+FitzHugh

for HW

(1rst Reading) The quote: "you forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget" (12)

The meaning/discussion on quote: This is a pessimistic view of the world (your mind thinking about the bad things)

This quote is important because in many ways it is completely true. My preacher once said when he was talking the people of the church "try to not picture a horse in your mind". Everyone closed there eyes and for the most part failed. Things that you don't want to remember truly do seem to be more memorable. My personal experience not being able to forget something comes from a cross country race. I ran the race and finished with a good time, after the race i watched as a 4 year old girl and her mother walked in front of a stationary truck. The truck started moving and knocked both the mother in the daughter on the ground. I remember this clearly but i dont remember finishing the race or anything good that happened that day.

(2nd Reading) Vocabulary Threadbare - Having the nap worn down so that the filling or warp threads show through; frayed or shabby Cannonading - To assault with heavy artillery fire, A harsh verbal or physical attack. Barren - Not producing offspring, Lacking vegetation, especially useful vegetation.

(2nd Reading) Questions

Should the father have listened to his son about helping the other boy in need? Why or why not.

Why did the father not even try to get help from the people in the town? Did they have anything to loose?

Why did the father assume such bad things about the people in the town?

"Are we they good guys?" Are the father and the son the "good guys"?

(3rd Reading) Vocabulary Trundle - Move slowly and heavily, typically in a noisy or uneven way Mendicant - A beggar Palimpsest - A manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing. Catamite - boy or youth who is in a sexual relationship with a man.

(4rth Reading) Throughout this reading the father and son have run into many things for the first time. They find a bunker, meet a man named Eli, and find a train that isn't working. The boy and his father have been putting their heads down and putting in work trying to find a solution to their problem. After the hard work they have done I think that things are looking up for the first time. When i started to realize this, i connected with the book. I totally know how the boy and his father feel. During a long tennis match i try as hard as i can. And the sense of accomplishment after you have defeated your opponent is so worth it. Hopefully the boy and his father will keep trying and not give up because things are looking up.

(5th Reading) It is easy to tell that the fathers health is steadily going downhill, do you think he will be able to survive? If the father does die what do you think will happen to the son? Why is the boy so mesmerized by the road that they are traveling on?

(Final Reading) "In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery" (278)

"Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again." (281)