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" You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget" (12).

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 * characters- no names yet but theres a man (father) and a boy (son)
 * setting- everything charred, lonly, isolated, gloomy, melow, snowy, cold, rainy...
 * The girl who appears in his dream maybe his wife, and he regrets losing her which is why she keeps appearing in his dream.
 * charred- ruins... autistic used differently in the book.
 * " You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget" (12). true in many ways. We know from personal experience. The worst memories are the ones you'll remember the longest.
 * how the father and son relationship is strong even in a situation like this.


 * Rummaged- After losing all of their stuff they are much more desperate, forcing them back to looking over places they know have been picked clean.
 * Threadbare- The man and the boy's clothes are suffering from this
 * Cannonading- happened physically when the other man attacked them, and when the father argued with his wife.
 * There are similarities between this book and McCarthy's other book, //No Country for Old men.// He keeps a similar style in his works based on survival.
 * The world is barren
 * Father and son are so desperate they are not able to help others even if they were capable
 * Consider themselves "The Good guys"
 * The book is dull because that is what the mans life is
 * Akbar's opinion "They are gonna go down. There gonna find food. There not gonna freeze. Gonna find a house. Get some slur pees."
 * Akbar thinks they are going to die eventually
 * 7-11 Inside scoop- New slur pee, Bigger than a double gulp, has some weird name, "90 something ounces"-Akbar Khwaja
 * Would not mind Slur pees made out of people
 * Looking for hope (Village) in the south


 * Plot similarities to Texas Chainsaw Massacre... Nuggetz?!
 * People they encounter - indication that there could be people in larger groups with roles and more organization
 * The father still has a sense of wanting to keep the kid's hopes up, so he won't tell him they are going to die
 * The people in the room are there to be eaten: being kept alive to stay fresh
 * Father gives gun to to kid; doesn't want him to suffer the horrible fate of being eaten if he is caught, but decides against it because the kid is frightened
 * Finding apples and water: means that some people are doing better with food and resources than they are
 * More themes relating to memories: they are always mutilated when you try to bring them back
 * Boy: Loss of innocence and naive hope?
 * Father: Losing hope too, part of him wishing against his interest of survival that it would all just end


 * Why didn't the father and the son stay at the warm bunker? - The father knew that winter was coming so they needed to keep moving towards the south.
 * Why did the father and the son help the old man? - They helped the man because he was a good distance away and didn't look like a threat at all.
 * How is the old man surviving without any food? He says that he just stays on the street and waits for people to give him food. Does this mean there are still good people out there?
 * Akbar thinks that the father should have double checked the gas cap. The young boy doesn't know much better.
 * The group agrees that you should have a plan for tomorrow. It is the smart thing to do.
 * Keep your head up and keep trying hard good things will happen.

will the father be able to survive? no, his health is slowly declining, and whatever he's doing is for his son. what will happen to the son if the father dies? He's probably not going to be able to survive. why is the boy mesmerized on the road they travel on? sepulcher- tomb or barriel place promontory- high point of land or rock desolation- devestation... good word someone else telling you its not your fault, when you really know it is your fault, and that you lost something important, and something that couldnt be replaced. father tries not to cause worries, because if he told him it was his fault is would cause more stress onto the boy. Carmac McCarthy real name was Charles.

" They were moving south. there'd be no surviving another winter here" (4) "He could see the dissapointment on his face. Sorry it's not blue." (215) "People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wan't getting ready for them.It didn't even know they were there." (168) "You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget" (12) “Even now some part of him wished they’d never found this refuge. Some part of him always wished it to be over.” (154)
 * Quotes:**

Gelid - Extremely cold, frigid bivouacked - A temporary encampment often in an unsheltered area. Desolation (221)- Devastation; ruin Sepulcher (223)- A tomb grave or burial place colliculus(64)- one of the 4 parts of the brain Palimpsest - A manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing. Catamite - boy or youth who is in a sexual relationship with a man. Trundle - Move slowly and heavily, typically in a noisy or uneven way Charred (8)-to burn or reduce golden chalice(75)- golden cup, mostly used in churches.
 * Vocab section:**

"In life there are answers you cannot know."-They never knew what would happen next The circle of life- The father dies after he teaches his son to survive so that he may do the same. "There are good things and bad things to choose from."- The choice between whether or not you would have started eating others to keep yourself alive. "Others who share your values can help you"- good people help the little boy in the end Morality can still exist in such a world-
 * Themes**