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**skein**- anything wound in or resembling such a coil **emaciation**- t o make or become extremely thin, especially as a result of starvation **truncheoned**- clubbed, cudgeled Souwester: a long raincoat often worn at sea Creosote: a dark brown oil distilled from coal tar and used as a wood preservative Bollards: a short, thick post on the deck of a ship or on a wharf, to which a ship's rope may be secured Ensepulchred: entomb Granitic: flinty; showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings Marauders: someone who attacks in search of a body Chifforobe: a piece of furniture with drawers on one side and hanging space on the other Jig: A device that holds a piece of work and guides the tools operating on it Harrow: a cultivating implement set with spikes, spring teeth, or disks and used primarily for pulverizing and smoothing the soil
 * MATCHING VOCAB: **
 * Verdigris - ** a green or bluish patina formed on copper, brass, or bronze surfaces exposed to the atmosphere for long periods of time, consisting principally of basic copper sulfate
 * Squall - ** A sudden violent gust of wind, often accompanied by rain, snow, or sleet.
 * Myriad - ** A very great or indefinitely great number of persons or things.

Quotes, match to a person and explain the importance of it to them: The man, the wife, the boy, the setting, the "good guy" at the end "The country was looted, ransacked, ravaged. Rifled of every crumb. The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it. Like a dawn before battle" (129). --> setting "I'll talk to you every day, he whispered. And I won't forget. No matter what" (286). --> the boy "I should have done it a long time a go. When there were three bullets in the gun instead of two. I was stupid. We've been over all of this. I didn't bring myself to this. I was brought. And now i'm done." (56) --> wife "He waited in the road and when the man came out of the woods he was carrying the suitcase and he had the blankets over his shoulder. He sorted through them and handed one to the boy. Here, he said. Wrap this around you. You're cold. The boy tried to hand him the pistol but he wouldn't take it. You hold onto that, he said" (285). -->man at the end

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 --> the boy

Questions

How do the boy and the man's reaction to others on the Road differ? why do you think this is?

Why didnt the man kill himself? how is he different from his wife?

What does this book tell us about despair and freedom?

What is the fire inside the boy? what is it's purpose?

who are the good guys? how are they different from the bad guys?

What was the purpose of making the man take off all his cloths? what did this achieve?

is the boy serious when he says he wants to die? does he fully understand the severity of his words?

Was the boy the only thing standing inbetween the man and death?

Do you think they were really heading south? or was that just something to tell the boy?