Meggie

=** The Road Notes **=

Pages 1-50
// Literary Luminary //

“A quarter mile down the road he stopped and looked back. We’re not thinking, he said. We have to go back” page 7

“Neither of them had spoken a word. This was the perfect day of his childhood. This is the day to shape the days upon” page 13

"On the outskirts of the city they came to a supermarket. A few old cars in the trashstrewn parking lot. They left the cart in the lot and walked the littered isles" page 22

"No. We cant help him. There's nothing to be done for him." page 50

Pages 51-102
//Discussion Director//

1.) How do you think McCarthy's style of writing affects the story? He doesn't use quotation marks, and there is a lot of spacing between paragraphs.

2.) How did the world get to be like this? What caused it.

3.) Do you think that the man will ever just give up? How bad does it have to get?

Pages 103-200
//Connections//

1.) Is this where our world is headed? 2.) If this ever happened to us, would we be prepared? 3.) There's a new show on NBC called the Revolution that reminds me about this book...

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//Vocabulary//

Writhe: to twist the body about, or squirm, as in pain, violent effort,etc.

Grotto: a cave or cavern.

Haggard: having a gaunt, wasted, or exhausted appearance, as fromprolonged suffering, exertion, or anxiety Coagulate: to change from a fluid into a thickened mass; curdle;congeal:

Corrugate: to draw or bend into folds or alternate furrows and ridges.

Last Pages
Literary Luminary

"Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery." Page 287

"He slept close to his father that night and held him but when he woke in the morning his father was cold and stiff. He sat there for a long time weeping adn then he got uo and walked out through the woods to the road." Page 281