The+Pedestrians

Brandon Nate Meghan

CONSTITUTION 1. Do your individual work. This includes reading and your group job for the week. 2. Participate in group discussion and be wiling to share your ideas with the group even if you think they are stupid. 3. Respect other people's ideas. NO PUT DOWNS! 4. Try to stay focused so we can get our work done more efficiently 5. Look both ways before crossing //The Road//

- We still don't know what happened to the world. - How much time has actually passed? They talk about ever and years having gone by. They talk about staying on the state road and the boy doesn't know what that is or what a state is.--> Maybe he was born after the initial collapse of society. - He uses colors to describe different settings. Everything is described as grey and real life and in the dreams that they talk of, they are rich in color. - The boy's dream about the wind-up penguin was really strange. Does it have any significance. The man used to have a wife but she died and we do not know how he died. -There is no trust in other people. They seem scared of something whether its people or not, we still don't know. - They use really meaningful language all the time. There is no change in the tone and doesn't allow anything to stand out to the reader.
 * Pages 1-50****-** The book has slow start they just keep walking and walking. No big events have happened yet

VOCAB -Gryke -Thesbian - Autistic - Decanting

- What were the importance of the flashbacks to them now? -Kill each other/ suicide like the mother or stay alive and seek help so they will be raped -How has the dad and son relationship deteriorated? -Its like any child/parent relationship where the parents is trying to do what is best for the child even if they don't like it. However, in this book it is to the extreme. -They are complete opposites because they were born in different eras. -The dad has common sense and the boy doesn't but that comes with age. - With this new information, how long do you think they have been on the road -We know the woman was pregnant when the event happened and that he was born in the middle of the whole thing. -The boy might be 8-10 years old maybe.
 * pg 50-102**

- will to live would keep you alive no matter how desperate, lots of despair though - why do we read fiction? to have ability to make up whatever we want from the story, leaves lots of room for interpretation - we would not stay in the bunker, not safe enough not enough protection, lots of food though, we would try to take as much as possible. - fake bullets were made to imitate real bullets to scare people - god is indirectly referenced but not necessarily known by the son, "prays" to the people like god - the husband seems to have real experience in the situation at hand, think he had military experience before, survival experience - what is carrying the torch? don't seem to be trying to rekindle civilization at all, maybe just a way to keep the son wanting to live - winterish time of year
 * pg 102-153**

VOCAB - Cheroot - Skeins - Siwash - Swag - Chattel

- I think he is going to die - Lots of foreshadowing about man dying - Boy can't understand anything that the world used to be like - What is anybody's identity? Don't know boy or father's name or man they helped - Always find more food after a while - Ely seems to be the opposite of what they are yet at the same time they are the same since they want to live
 * pg 154-230**

VOCAB - Bivouacked - Loggia - Verdigris - Promontory - Fey

- man realized he was definitely dying and thats all that was true (shown in Meghan's quote) - (276) sees himself dying - is the little boy that the boy saw the same boy in the family at the end? - the dad made the son prepared for certain things, but he is still a child, lead by example - dad was special forces maybe, so accurate with flare gun and new had to search the boat, did he know before the event happened that it was going to happen? - was the boy taken to a community? probably couldn't have survived without them - parts of the book where it sounds like God talking to the man, boy and dad each others "Gods" - boy reminds us of Bain
 * pg 230-287**

VOCAB - Salitter - Rickets - Crozzled