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What is the setting?

Where are they headed?

Is there evidence of how long this has been going on?

What would you do in this situation?

Decanting-to pour

51-102 connection person

At this point in the story the characters are contemplation suicide because its just gotten so bad physically and mentally that they just wanted to give up. And that happens a lot in today's age. When life hits little to hard people give up. Relating to the book, I mean they have some good reasons for thinking this way and It doesn't have to be an apocalyptic event to bring you to that level but there are some bad places to live at in the world like Syria were there's constant war. While death is an ongoing theme in this book, there are still some moments when good things happen. When the man and the boy are walking on the roads and decide to stop and make a campfire I felt I could relate to this. Setting up camp and making a fire is usually associated with joy. At least if your life doesn't depend on whether you get that heat from the fire or not. But there have been times in my life where i've been so cold i thought i'd get hypothermia or something. When it used to snow in Virginia... and I snowboarded, one time I got the wind knocked out of me and i just sat there face down in the snow. It was kinda scary but I was fine.

Vocab-Skeins- A tangled or complicated arrangement, state, or situation.

102-150

quote guy

pg146-"We hope that you're safe in heaven with God."

pg137-"This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up."

pg130-"What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return."

Vocab-Swag- Sentence-"the water swinging and gurgling in the shrunken swag of his gut."

A festoon, heavy around the center