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Themes: 1. In life there are answers you cannot know. 2. Religion: why some people turn to religion, maybe to ask questions and get answers from God 3.

September 9 Connections: Fear strong relationship (father and son) they were very dependent on each other, they had to rely on each other to survive

- This story relates to our fears today, for example the fear of 9/11. - fear of dying, related to a soldier in war scared of losing his life but he must continue fighting

What do you think the father and son are hiding from? They were hiding from road gangs, rapists/cannibals...hiding from death because it is basically all around them, they're surrounded.

What happened to the boys mother? She died, the boy had a dream that he didn't take care of her and she died alone. It was a sense of guilt that made him feel like something was wrong, and gave him the fear of dying alone.

What do you think the boy would do if his father died?

- He might keep going on his own - his chances of surviving on his own would be very slim, he is 11 years old - not a big chance that he would kill himself

What do you think the dream at the beginning of the book meant, and how do you think the rest of the book will connect to the dream? The dream was about the young boy leading his father into a cave, and they see a monster dwelling there...what does this represent? It could represent that that is how their future will turn out, that is where they are headed in life.

Vocab: Litany (pg, 31): form of prayer, each followed by an unvarying response. This was used in the book as a way to remember howtimes used to be, perhaps when he used to go to church Cauterized (pg 14): To burn or sear with a cautery --> talking about the burnt wasteland in the book

Recorder: 41- 89 September 13th

1. Why do you think the father and his son talk that way? Why does the son ask so many questions? and why does the father answer with a weak explanation? 2.Do we get any new information about the world before? 3. Where do you think they are? Do we have any clues where they are trying to go?

the boy just because he is young he asks a lot of questions. however the man knows that if the boy asks too many questions that he will find out that he isn't living in the world that he wants to live in. his father is his role model. The people in this world are harsh and mean. the boy is innocent and thinks the best about everyone, however sometimes it is good to be cautious like the father. we think that he lives on the east coast. they are trying to south because it is getting to cold and they will die if they stay too far north. we don't know exactly where they are at the moment but we think that they had just gotten out of the Appellation Mounts.

the paragraph on page 89 the whole page is imagery, they are talking about how they are cold and the area is cold. The wife is going to kill herself because she is unhappy. she doesn't want to live afraid of the other people. the mother says that the man better not live for himself and live for the child. the boy wants to die to some extent because he doesn't want to live in hardship.

if we were in their place would we have helped the burnt old man? What would we do if we saw the dog? eat or pet? conflict between the boy and man. very different views. "are we still the good guys?" what makes the borderline of being selfish and being the 'bad guys?' would you have eaten the man who the father shot if you found the body? Why did the man make a flute for the boy if it made noise and they wanted to stay hidden?

they have connections of conflict.

September 15th

The people in the red scarves could have represented the Nazis in WWII, like how they collected people.The boy was related to a death camp prisoner How long could the slaves have been in bondage (92)? Probably not very long because they eat the people that they catch after a while Are the bad guys going south as well? Everyone that the man and the boy have seen have been going south, including the lightning struck guy The man lying about dying. Was the man lying about them dying, or did he believe that they were going to survive

page 103. The boy asks if there is any chance that the passing people are good guys, the man says no.

page 132: The man not recognizing himself, its been so long since he has seen himself, and hes changed so much

110: quote about them starving. the boy lies about being hungry because he doesn't want to die. The boy has a sense of humainty and reason, the man no longer does. even though the boy never lived in the pre apocalyptic world

113: quote about the man telling the boy how to kill himself if the men find them. Scariest part of the book so far, some of the most action.

Bludgeon: to force into something (91)

truncheoned: The staff that is held by a leader. It was being held by the leader of the red people. This shows that even in this apocalyptic world there is still leadership

September 20th Questions: The boy fallows around the father because the boy is always scared. He was told to be the look out so he is trying to do his job. He knew that they were going to leave soon. What did they take from the bunker: Took as much food as they could carry, flash light/ lantern 154- strange creature: He is living in a new world he man trys to describe the old world but its like an alien came down and took over this new world. Connections: 185 modern day monopoly, there is only one person to get him what he needs 171: old man with fake name. people still value there names, it is all they have left, but they still have there name. 140: There are good guys out there, you don't know if the man is just trying to get the boy to feel okay about eating someone elses food, but this is the first time that the father felt confident about knowing that there are good guys. 157: the boy has never seen the sun, that why it is so cold, its almost like a border 167: the author put a name. it's not important because they are not going to know them for long. Vocab: The boy threw away the flute realized he doesn't need it and that people could find them if they used
 * 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.

September 23rd 189 “One night the boy woke from a dream and would not tell him what it was” Light at the end of the tunnel type of deal. The brighter the dream the closer you are to dying, and the son would have dreams of death and other scary things.

196 “”Do you think your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledgerbook? Against what? There is no book and you fathers are dead in the ground?” Contemplating who is talking. Is it the father? Is there God in this world? Is there someone that will judge him when he dies.

218 “But when he looked the boy was crying. What is it? He said. Nothing. No, tell me. Nothing. It’s nothing.” The boy thought about friends and having fun in the water, and like being at the beach. The boy wants to understand what having friends is like

191, talks about what had happened pre-apocalypse, the world was on fire. The man is protecting the boy, by not letting him see the dead bodies all around him.

198, talks about how woman have lost their maternal instinct to care for their child, but instead to feed themselves

188 Caustic- to be able to burn by chemical reaction

200 Leaden- dull heavy or slow

228 Verdigris- a bright bluish green e in crustaceous form on copper or brass due to atmospheric oxidation

Relationship between the father and the son, is just like for us. The father protects the child by knowing what the child should see because he knows that It will bother him. Just like in today’s society fathers know what their children should see and what they shouldn’t see.

September 28th

How did you feel when the father died? - sad, epic moment - kind of expected, the boy seemed desperate What made the father finally die? - shot by bow&arrow Were the people who took the boy after the father died really "good" people? - yes, at the time they seemed good. - could've all been an act How did you feel about the ending? - a good ending, sort of the only way they could end it - an expected ending Do you think the boy will survive? - Yes, for as long as he can

Quotes: about dreams from the man and boy the boy said the man's name over and over again right before he died, which was weird because the author never gave us any names. it just said the boy was calling his name repeatedly 1. "He fell into a dreamless sleep." 2. "I had some weird dreams. About what? I don't want to tell you." 3. "I don't have good dreams anyway. They're always about something bad happening. You said that was okay because good dreams are not a good sign." This reading had a lot to do with dreams. The man said that good dreams mean something bad...then in each of these quotes it signifies that the man isn't having dreams at all but the kid is having a bad dream.

Vocab:

torsional: the act of twisting or turning vermiculate: bearing wavy lines these words don't have a lot of meaning in the story but have a poetic effect to end the story