Mitch

Discussion Master questions: 1-51
 * 1) Where do you think they are?
 * 2) Why do you think they scope out where they are going to go?
 * 3) Why can’t they make fires?
 * 4) What do you think the relationship between the father and son is?
 * 5) Why do they always hide their shopping cart?

Vocabulary: 51-102

Meconium (59): the milky sap of the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy.

Catamites (92): a boy or youth who is in a sexual relationship with a man.

Rachitic (63): a word that describes a sickly looking person.

Connections Master: 102-154 1. When they find the bunker, it's like coming back from camping and finding all of this luxury as if it is normal. 2. In their eyes, the bunker is like Noah's Ark. I say this because this is a place in which they are safe from all of the rain, and it even floods but they are able to wait it out because they are in a safe place. 3. The bunker also acts as a time capsule, it contains things from the man's past and what he remembers are now extremely rare. 4. I don't really know why, but when the man and the boy find the people in the bunker it reminded me of //Wrong Turn.// I'm presuming that this is because in the movie these people trap these other people in a house and eat them.

Quotes: 154-230 "What are our long term goals?"(160) "there were nights lying in the dark that he did not envy the dead"(230)

discussion Master: 230-end was it right to take from the robber who took from the boy and the man? what do you think the boy will do with his new family? what do you think the boy signifies throughout the book? do you think the man did the right thing by letting the boy live?