Kelsey


 * // Quotes 1-15 //**

“This was not a safe place. They could be seen from the road now it was day. They could be seen from the road now it was day.” (5) “Have you a heart? Damn you eternally have you a soul? Oh God, he whispered. Oh God.” (12)
 * Reminded me of Huck Finn and how they could only come out when it was dark because of Jim. This shows us the severity of where they are living, we don’t know much about the area but it is a place where they can’t be spotted in daylight. Telling the reader that this is a dangerous environment. Sets the tone for the rest of the book.
 * This quote stood out to me because its shows that the father is religious, he references God in many other instances showing that one of the themes in this book should be religion. This also tells the reader, who doesn’t necessarily know that the father and son have been through a great ordeal because he is begging God to help them out of the situation.


 * // 15-50 Vocabulary //**


 * Slogging pg. 30 à slogging in the context of the road means to walk or move with difficulty or effort. In the road the man and his son slog through rough mountainous and snowy terrains


 * Rhododendron pg. 40 à a Rhododendron is a type of plant usually a shrub ranging from a small shrub to a tree but that is rare. They are described in the road to be dead twisted and dead.


 * Escarpment pg. 37 à an escarpment is a steep slope or a cliff like ridge of land. Trees are hanging on to them in //the Road.//


 * // 51-102 Connections //**
 * Reading deeper into //The Road// I made a connection comparing the road to zombie apocalypse movies. I know this may seem weird but the premises are exactly the same, they both take place in barren wastelands with no life around them. Also in both things they both have someone to fear, in the movies it’s the zombies and in //The Road// they are strange cannibals. The main goal in both these is to find salvation in //The Road// it is somewhere south east of where they are.


 * I also made a personal connection that could also be general with the theme of hope in these pages. We start to see the boy lose some hope, saying that he wishes he was dead. Along with the recurring question he asked his dad, whether or not they were going to die. I myself had times where I have lost hope about minor things and know that people everywhere lose hope when they are in life or death situations like in the road.


 * // 102-154 Discussion Questions //**
 * Is it better to have seen the world before the destruction and to have lost it like the father? Or is it better to not have known what the world was like, like the son?
 * Will the son be able to kill himself when the time comes, how will the father react?
 * How do you think the son and the father have kept their humanity and sanity in the midsts of all of this death and destruction?
 * “The bad guys” are cannibals and terrorist, do you think that they are still human, how do you think they lost their humanity?
 * Things seem to be going to well for them when we leave off, do you think it will last explain why?

//** 154-230 Connections **//
 * I made a personal connection to the young boy in this reading, we see him caring for everyone and wanting to help everyone. When I was younger i never used to let things go, and sometimes now it is hard for me to let things. The boy had his mind set on helping the people they had meet on the road, like elly, the dog, and the boy he saw even if it would endanger him he still wanted to help. This shows that the boy still has held on to his humanity and his youth.
 * I made a connection with the father comparing him to my uncle because they both act as the voice of reason. The father has to stay practical and say no to his son many times when he wants to help people. This in the long run is in the greater good for them, and maybe the son will understand that when he is older. My uncle like the father makes decisions that I don't agree with but in the long run are the better choice. They both are very practical people my uncle and I not being in the same situation as the father and son on the road, but on minor scales my uncle makes certain decisions like the father.
 * I made a connection to the desperation that is shown in this reading, the father and the son have to put themselves in these life threatening situations by entering the unknown so that they don't starve. I connected on this in a minor scale, sometimes we need to do something so badly that we risk something in return.

The father thinks that him and the son are going to die and if they die the fire goes with them that is why he said that it would be the last day of the earth. The boy is starting to get irritated with his father because he begged him not to take the man’s clothes. In turn the man probably died because he froze to death or got sick. Shows how the boy is always caring for other people while the father has to be practical and in turn they are helping themselves survive. In the last paragraph of the book talking about the world and how it will never be put back together.
 * // 230-end Quotes //**
 * “Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie.”(238)
 * “You have to stay near, he said. You have to be quick. So you can be with him. Hold him close. Last day of the earth.” (250)
 * “…the boy said: But we did kill him.” (260)
 * “Yes. But in the stories we’re always helping people and we don’t help people” (268)
 * “Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back.”(287)