The+Roadies

Amy Ethan Karley Maddie

Consitution: 1. Communation is key. If you have not done the required homework talk to your group about it!

2. You must share all ideas in your head no matter what!

3. Don't be boring. Be creative!

4. COME PREPARED.

If any of these rules are broken you will have to suffer the fate of the characters in the book. =**__Notes:__ 1-50**=

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 * //Literary Luminary://** 1-50

-"He said the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor and of death." Page 18

Death trying to lure him in with painful memories of the past?

-"Each in the other world's entire" Page 6

They must depend on each other for hope to stay alive.

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 * //Vocabulary//**//: 1-50//

-Charred and Solitary describe the story so far in the book.

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 * //Discussion Director://** 1-50

- The little boy wanted to help the burnt man but the father said no, one of the reasons he carries a pistol- you can't trust anyone

- What do you think these dreams are leading up to? Or is it death trying to lure him in?

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 * //Connection// //Master://** //1-50//

-Relationship between father and son. They have to depend on each other in order to keep hope alive.


 * //Discussion day 2://**
 * //Discussion Leader://**
 * **//What is wrong with the man?//**
 * //He's sick, coughing up blood. Will he die? Will he kill himself if the son wasn't around?//
 * **//What happened to the world?//**
 * //The son doesn't know anything about the world before. In a flashback he was talking to his wife in a house while she was pregnant suggesting it didn't happen until a little after the son was born.//
 * **//Who are the bad guys?//**
 * //They kept referring themselves to the good guys. Who are the bad guys?//
 * //Getting anything they can for themselves, not worrying if they hurt anyone else//
 * **//Why did the woman kill herself?//**
 * //She wanted to avoid being raped and murdered for food. She thought she could just get it over with//

//**Literary:**//
 * //(88) Talks about how the world is coming to an end. Things that mattered before, no longer do. The earth is dying (the snow and sky are gray)//
 * //(96) Describes where they are. It's symbolism for how they are doing right now//
 * //(83) "Because we're carrying the fire." They have the will to survive. They're carrying the torch of survival//


 * //Connection Master://**
 * //He took his ID out and put it on the road and just left them there.//
 * //The son saw the boy, we think the boy had a hallucination. He needs a friend he wants a friend. Just like when you smell food, you can almost taste it.//
 * //Paranoia is extreme compared to now.//
 * //Going south to get the equator for warmth//


 * // Vocabulary Miser (51-102) //**
 * 1) //Page 54, Provenance: The beginning of something's existence; something's origin. //
 * 2) //Page 58, Obsidian: A hard, dark, glass like volcanic rock formed by the rapid solidification of lava without crystallization //

// Day 3 //

// Discussion Director // // 1. Could the father kill his son if the time came? -mixed opinions // // 2. Why are they going south? -"good guys" civilization -to get warmer // // 3. Why does the father not directly tell the child that the other people were cannibals? -hide the truth to keep him innocent // // 4. Do you think the father not leaving him will foreshadow anything? -maybe // // 5. Why would he wager their lives in chance? Is luck on their side? -its his last extort, not usually //

// Literary Illuminary // // 1. pg 113 Would the kid be able to kill himself? // // 2. pg 121 and 123 the apple and the water, for once it was about him, almost selfish // // 3. pg 131 dreams of the past world and how good they were //

// Vocabulary Miser // 1. krugerrands (pg. 142)- a South African gold coin with a portrait of President Kruger on the obverse

2. coolingboard (pg. 130)- a plank for laying out a corpse 3. canebrake (pg. 115)- a thicket of canes

Connection Master 1. The Book of Eli, the setting and placement is similar, ash, gray, no sun, city is in chaos 2. The book, Night, he was scared when he saw himself in the mirror and the boy and the father were the same, becasue it had been so long and they have been through so much

Questions- 1. Is boy helpful or not?- Helps because he keeps the man alive and gives him hope. He hinders because he left the gas valve on and he was giving away their food to Ely. 2. Tell us where the world went?- does he want an answer? We think that it's possible that the man has been around for so long that he might actually know what happened to everything physically and mentally. 3. How were they let go so easily by those three guys? - Maybe those people were actually good guys, even though they are still considered as enemies. they didn't want to eat them and they weren't savages like other people they have encountered. 4. How was the boy so calm?- he's seen it all already. After a while he just got used to it maybe. Adults to the boy are all evil because all the other adults that they have seen have been a threat.
 * Reading154-203 Amy**

Connections 1. Setting reminds maddie of what is in her re-occurring dream. Same setting in her dream. 2. 155- impossible to tell what day or time it is. She hates that feeling of not knowing.

Quotes 1. Ely "nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave." No one likes this hellish world, but no one wants to die. 2. Who are they hiding from?- each other because no one can trust each other any more. 3. 191 they couldn't leave because everything was on fire. This shows maybe what happened in the crisis/ disaster.

Vocabulary 1. Bivouacked 168- just complicated word 2. Kudzu 177- reddish green weeds 3. Trundling- a rolling motion or noise 181 4. Dessicated- to dry out to the point of no moisture 184. kind of describes the situation of the world right now.

Ely Questions: 1. How do man and boy differ in reaction to strangers- man doesn't trust them and the boy wants to help them. 2. Ely looked?- Like a bundle of old rags. They give us an idea that he has been through a lot. Rough situations. Perhaps born a beggar and has survived because he was already accostomed to this style of life. 3. Reacts to God?- The man still can't even trust God or believe in him. The boy is innocent and he can accept a God. 4. Religion?- No morals. People have lost hope. God wouldn't let this happen so there isn't one anymore according to most people. 5. Starved and threadbare Buddah?- Simile. 6.

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**__Discussion Director: 230-End__**
Maddie 1.) If the father never died, would the father trust the man in the road the way the boy would? 2.) Whenever the boy is most afraid why does he think of the little boy? 3.) Would the father be happy if the boy was taken into the family's care?

**__Vocab: 230-END__**
AMY

1.) promontory pg221- A point of high land that juts out into the sea or a large lake; a headland.

2. laddered pg. 250- Something that resembles a latter. (This is how the boy's ribs were)

3. ensepulchred pg. 273- A chamber that is used as a grave.

Extra : I know that quote finding wasn't my job, but I found so many awesome ones that I have to share them. (I'll talk about them in class) -"Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie" pg.238. -"You'll be all right he said. He was terrified" pg. 247. -"I will do what I promised, he said. No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone." 248 -"The thief looked at the child and what he saw was very sobering to him" pg. 256 -"A sound without cognate and so without description." pg. 261 -"I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant" pg. 279 -"Do you remember that little boy, Papa?" pg. 280

Extra: One more point I want to say is something I noticed. I realized that McCarthy often makes a similie comparring to something nice in the old world. pg. 206 "They wandered through the rooms like sceptical house buyers." pg. 261 "holding them in his hand and squeezing them like a man checking for ripeness at a fruitstand." pg. 272 "...like icing on a cake."

__**Connection Master: 230-END**__
__**Karley**__

Connection Master: 1. pg. 162 the father mention that the boy needs to get sunlight to get some vitamin d. This past year I had a serious vitamin d deficency so i can relate to how they felt. It makes all your joints hurt, and makes movement hard, I can have sympathy towards them from my own personal experience. 2. When the father dies the boy mourns his death. A few years ago my grandmother passed away, it's not at quite the same level, but I still feel for the child because I know what it is like to lose somebody close to you.

__**Literary Luminary: 230-END**__
Ethan

246- "Like God? Yeah. maybe somebody like that." Why would the boy care to have God know where they are?

272- "What's the bravest thing you ever did?...Getting up this morning..." Why would something like that be so hard?

281- "Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again." What meaning do you think is in the father's last words?