Emma


 * Discussion Director:**
 * 1) Why do you think that the boy is so obsessed with death and ways that he himself can die?
 * 2) Who do you think the man and boy are hiding from?
 * 3) what do you think happened to the boys mother?
 * 4) On page 11 the boy asks his father what he would do if he died and his father said that he would want to die too. what do you think the boy would do if his father died?
 * 5) What do you think the dream at the beginning of the book meant? how do you think the rest of the book is going to connect with this dream?


 * Connection Master:**
 * 1) it connects to the hardship during the Holocaust. i felt this way because of the "Red" people who capture others and slowly eat them.
 * 2) the red army could also be the Chinese "Red" army.
 * 3) I have also realized that everyone that the man and the boy have seen are going South.


 * Vocabulary Miser:**
 * 1) [pg 149] ruse -- An action intended to deceive someone; a trick
 * 2) [pg 152] sumptuous -- Splendid and expensive-looking.
 * 3) [pg 155] grommets -- An eyelet placed in a hole in a sheet or panel to protect or insulate a rope or cable passed through it or to prevent the sheet or panel from being torn.

**Literary Luminary**:
 * 1) "I don't want you to look. They'll still be there." -- In this quote the boy and the man have come across a lot of dead bodies from a firestorm. The man doesn't want the boy to see the bodies because he is afraid that it will scare him. however, the boy isn't scared, he has grown stronger and he knows what things mean now. [pg 191]
 * 2) "DO you think that your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledgerbook? Against what? There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground." -- Im not sure what this quote means but it sounds important. i think that maybe the fathers means God and Devil and they watch to judge who goes to Heaven and who goes to Hell. however who can they judge now? all that is left are ruins and skeletons? [pg 196]
 * 3) "What the boy had seen was a charred human infant headless and gutted and blackening on the spit." this is more proof that the people have become cavemen. all sense or morality and love has vanished. the mother of the infant had lost all motherly instincts and killed her own child so that she could eat him. I hate that I put this quote in here but i felt that it was very important no matter how gross it is. [pg 198]


 * Discussion** **Director:**
 * 1) How did you feel about the father dying?
 * 2) Would you have reacted the same way to a thief?
 * 3) Do you trust the people who saved the boy at the end?
 * 4) Do you think swimming out to the ship was worth the effort?
 * 5) What is the most important character trait to have to survive in this world?