Wyatt+Henke

Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. Then he picked up the phone and dialed the number of his father’s house in that long ago. They were days fording that cauterized terrain. (14) How does the never to be differ from what never was (32)

**Connection Master** : think about the assigned reading and find 2-3 places which you can specifically relate to. Explain in several sentences what outside connections you can apply to help everyone understand and empathize a bit more. Connect to your previous life experiences, other things you've read, movies or TV shows you've seen. Make connections to help us understand the situation more vividly.

The boy took his truck from the pack and shaped roads in the ash with a stick. The truck tooled along slowly. He made truck noises. (60)

he woke in the night with the cold and rose and broke up some more wood for the fire. The shape of the small tree limbs burning incandescent in the coals. He blew the flames to life and piled on the wood and sat with his legs crossed, leaning against the stone pier of the bridge. (74)

jig - "the cord that came through the window was tied to a brass bell and was fixed in a rough wooden **jig**that had been nailed to the window molding" - A device that holds a piece of work and guides the tools operating on it harrow - "in the yard was an old iron **harrow**propped up on piers of stacked bricks and someone had wedged between the rails of it a forty gallon Castiron cauldron of the kind used for rendering hogs" - a cultivating implement set with spikes, spring teeth, or disks and used primarily for pulverizing and smoothing the soil

Why is the basement locked? to keep something in or to keep something out? Why are there people down there? are they trapped? or are they hiding? He seems very concerned with making sure his son doesn't get captured and even contemplates bashing his skull if the gun doesn't fire. could you do that? How are they able to eat almost anything? Aren't there germs still or are they all gone? As a result of the apocalypse or future advances before the apocalypse? Are all animals extinct? he talks about the cows but are there fish? birds? worms? anything else or just humans? if so, why just them? Is the water not affected? Why can they drink it with out cleaning it? they strain it but not boil it? Why was there not other people in the bunker? Wouldn't the people who made it have tried to get there when the apocalypse happened?

154 - 230 they now both have masks, why? 156

Do they have any long term goals? 160 Don't want to give him a false assurance. Long term goal is to live Why does the boy try to help people like the old man? 173 He is very innocent and he doesn't fully realize the affects of helping people how does the man know that the train was there after the disaster? 179

Why is everyone traveling south? Might be safer and warmer. trying to get away

230 - end (quotes) what do you want to do? just help him, Papa. Just help him. The man looked back up the road. 259 The man squatted and looked at him. I'm scared, he said Do you understand? I'm scared. The boy didn't answer. He just sat there with his head bowed, sobbing. You're not the one who has to worry about everything. The boy said something but he couldn't understand him. What? he said. He looked up, his wet and grimy face. Yes I am, he said. I am the one. 259 they went on in perfect blackness, sightless as the blind. 234