CKG+-+Akbar

for HW " They were moving south. there'd be no surviving another winter here" (pg4) shows where there heading toward.
 * literary luminar:**

"In his dream his pale bride came to him" (pg18)theres a women who keeps comming in his dream. Maybe it was his wife.

"what is that papa?" (pg 19) shows that the man is the father and the boy is the son.


 * vocabulary:**

colliculus(64)- one of the 4 parts of the brain.

rummaged(69)- Search unsystematically and untidily through a mass or receptacle.

golden chalice(75)- golden cup, mostly used in churches.


 * connection master:**

some connections that I saw and made while reading the book were connection to horror films. especially on pages (110-114) where they go into that farm house and opened up the door on the floor and when down to see people in the dark hiding there that were captured and would soon be killed and then eaten. This part of the book reminds of the horrow film //Texas Chainsaw Massacre.// In that movie the people also went to a barn and then get captured and killed, so that part reminded of that movie.


 * Questions:**

why do you think the father and son didn't stay at the house where they had food and almost everything they needed?

why did the father and son help the old man, but not the little boy?

how is the old man still surviving without any food, and relying on people walking by?

does this mean there are still some good guys?


 * Quotes:**

"out there a gray desolation" (221)- this just emphasis the fact that everything is empty, and there's nothing out there. This also reminds me of a black and white picture; depressing.

"If he were god he would of made the world just so and no different" (219)- I'm a little confused on what this quote is trying to say. Is the father just talking about the world the way it was before the apocalypt or right now?

"He could see the dissapointment on his face. Sorry it's not blue." (215) "he watched the bleack sea wash up at their feet. Cold. Desolate. Birdless." (215)- This is a really dissapointing part because it was one of the only things the boy was looking forward too, but when they got there it was all ruined, and ugly. everything was messed up, and there was no sign of life.

"What the boy had seen was a charred infant headless and gutted and blackening on the spit." (198)- This is really disturbing because its a little baby that people were trying to eat. It's really nasty, and it was written in such a way that I can imagine actually seeing that, which I really dont want too.


 * vocabulary:**

vermiculate (287)- Decorate with wavy or winding lines.

torisiona (287)- Twisted shape or position.

skirmishes( 281)- An episode of irregular or unpremeditated fighting, esp. between small or outlying parts of armies or fleets.

tabernacle(273)- A tent or habitation.