Cavaliers

"No matter what I will not send you into the darkness alone" (247).

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__9/8__ Quotes Connections Questions Thoughts and questions
 * 1) pg. 18 Like the dying world the newly blind inhabit, all of it slowing fading from memory
 * 2) Author is good at defining the world without just saying what the world is
 * 3) Society is reacting to the world
 * 4) How it is a shock and they aren't use to the extreme change
 * 5) adapting and forgetting the world
 * 6) pg. 34 The boy says that he feels like he has to worry about his father
 * 7) the father protects him but he can't
 * 1) Fear
 * 2) Fear of death
 * 3) pg. 17 Mostly he worried about his shoes, and food, always food
 * 4) The Hunger Games
 * 5) Post-apocalyptic society
 * 1) Father and Son
 * 2) selflessness
 * 3) Dependency
 * 4) neither could live without the other
 * 5) Nostalgia
 * 6) father want's the son to maintain some sort of childhood
 * 7) keep him happy in a horrible world
 * 8) Pg. 11
 * 9) dependency
 * 10) one could not live without the other
 * 11) foreshadows later events
 * 12) pg. 23 Soda
 * 13) born before conflict
 * 14) growing up in a world in ash
 * 15) doesn't remember other world
 * 16) pg. 34 Father-Son conflict
 * 17) Father looking out for son
 * 18) but the son doesn't want to live without his dad
 * 19) break little promises will break big ones
 * 20) Most important theme
 * 21) selflessness
 * 22) desperation
 * 1) What happened to the wife
 * 2) father remembers first date
 * 3) Possibilities
 * 4) mother died while giving birth
 * 5) How quickly did the world deteriorate

__9/13__ Vocab Connections Quotes Questions Imagery
 * 1) Sappers: used to doing what they have to, trying to survive
 * 2) Idiom: things losing their meaning, names don't mean anything anymore
 * 3) Characters don't have names, lost identities
 * 4) Everything but survival loses meaning
 * 5) Lost kindness/humor
 * 6) Boy wants to help man struck by lightening
 * 7) Father wants to protect him from death, strangers
 * 8) Nothing they could do
 * 9) Hurts people to help others, can't afford that
 * 1) Survival
 * 2) Importance of family
 * 3) Sacrifices
 * 4) Father makes them for the boy
 * 5) Boy recognizes
 * 1) Pg 50 Can we help him?
 * 2) Father looking out for his son
 * 3) Has to forego compassion to look after his son
 * 4) Pg 57 Scene with mother
 * 5) Mother lost all hope after son was born
 * 6) Wishes she had killed herself before baby was born
 * 7) Couldn't imagine her son being born in such an awful world
 * 8) Not surviving for himself
 * 9) Mother wanted to get dying over with
 * 10) Pg 66 Flight from kidnappers
 * 11) Point in boy's life where he grew up suddenly
 * 12) Traumatizing
 * 1) What does the father expect for the future?
 * 2) Doesn't expect anything specific
 * 3) Needs a goal in order to survive
 * 4) Something he's working towards
 * 5) Boy still has naive hope
 * 6) Father hopes that there will be other people
 * 7) Someone else who can look after the boy
 * 8) He can let go
 * 9) Throws away the wallet, picture of his wife--why?
 * 10) Residual resentment
 * 11) She left them alone to fend for themselves
 * 12) She abandoned them, they abandoned her
 * 13) Will they be able to remain the good guys? What is their definition of a "good guy"?
 * 14) Remain good until they can't be anymore
 * 15) Have to defend themselves
 * 16) If the father killed someone for their resources would that make him bad?
 * 17) Ending one life to save another
 * 1) Everything is dead
 * 2) They don't know what time of year it is
 * 3) No means of keeping time
 * 4) Not important to them
 * 5) Desolate mood
 * 6) Barren
 * 7) Not much hope

89-135 Vocab 1. Truncheoned (90)- club carried by police officer 2. Beggared(90)- beggar 3. Bedlam (97)- state of wild uproar 4. Accrue (116)- to gain 5. Palimpsest(127)- writing material, something you write on that you've used before and erase

Connection Description McCarthy did of breaking into house and finding people=terrifying, connected to disgust and terror Connection with Son, over fear of being alone - when he talks about how he wishes the little boy was still with them=fear of being alone - uncertainty of future

Quotes Page 91, descriptions red=blood Page 92, descriptions slave Page 100, emphasis on boy trying to look after father Page 113, Father trying to protect son, make him understand Page 132, Passing the mirror, don't recognize themselves Page 135 the boy was losing his innocent, naivity

Discussion Questions 1) "carrying the fire" - symbolizes hope, and the fire inside of them 2) "were not going to die" - man has to beleives that he's going to get the boy to the south, the boy may be a bit more realistic 3) "im not hungry papa i'm not" - they need food, the Fathers really hungry and the boys being the realistic one 4) him dropping the fire, the man asking for help - without fire they can't survive, they can't help the man and survive themselves, its about self preservation

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9/28
 * 1) Vocab
 * 2) Vocab
 * 3) gelid
 * 4) Icy; extremely cold
 * 5) bivouacked pg. 168
 * 6) Stay in such a camp: "the battalion was now **bivouacked** in a field"
 * 7) Quote
 * 8) "But when he bent to see into the boy's face under the hood of the blanket he very much feared that something was gone that could not be put right again"(136).
 * 9) boy beginning to lose hope
 * 10) "The richness of a vanished world. Why is this here? the boy said. It is real?"(138).
 * 11) contrast to previous quotes
 * 12) renewed hope
 * 13) "The boy sat staring at his plate. He seemed lost. The man was about to speak when he said: Dear people, thank you for all this food and stuff. We know that you saved it for yourself and if you were here we wouldn't eat it no matter how hungry we were and we're sorry that you didn't get to eat it and we hope that you're safe in heaven with God. He looked up. Is that okay? he said. Yes. I think that's okay." (146).
 * 14) sad
 * 15) shows boys innocence
 * 16) Connections
 * 17) When they find the food they decide that they can't stay because it's not safe
 * 18) have to consider short term and longer term because even though it was a place where all needs were met it was dangerous
 * 19) Old man
 * 20) helped them by showing compassion
 * 21) while some don't help, others do
 * 22) father regrets not getting certain things
 * 23) relates to today because alot of people have regrets but you have to let those go in order to move forward
 * 24) Questions
 * 25) Food store
 * 26) how did the food store go unnoticed
 * 27) everyone that might have known died before they had a chance
 * 28) 136
 * 29) boy mentions heaven and god
 * 30) Because of how everything in the world has deteriorated is religion maintained
 * 31) Many people are living in the moment surviving
 * 32) depends on how many people were able to maintain their humanity
 * 33) How much of the world is left
 * 34) population
 * 35) very few
 * 36) they are no longer people, just hunters and survivors rather than people with emotions and feelings
 * 37) Ely
 * 38) fake name
 * 39) only thing capitalized
 * 40) would the author had capitalized his real name
 * 41) his identity
 * 42) wants to protect what is left of his old life

1. Connections The boy lost his Father but was taken in by others carrying the fire, I haven't lost a member of my immediate family but I've lost grandparents and have sort of been adopted by elderly family friends so I can get a shallow understanding of what he

2. quotes pg 286 signified an end to the physical Father Son relationship, but how the Son will continue to keep it alive in spirit pg 277 He wasn't giving up, his body gave out, but he never mentally gave up pg 261 Death coming to him, him describing the end, and what his life has been like.

3. questions 238 what does he mean by "every day is a lie" - symbolizes their survival, does it serve a purpose? are they surviving for something? pg? the boy says "i don't understand what were doing" what doesn't he understand? -hes loosing hope pg 278 dads dying, talking about not baring the thought of holding his own son - his mentality changed from the beginning of the book where he was saying "if i go your going with me" now he has hope for the boy to survive on his own 4. Vocab for pages 235-end
 * Souwester** (239) - A long raincoat, often worn at sea
 * Shelflife** (248) - The length of time a product may be stored before beginning to lose its effectiveness

1. In life there are answer you cannot know 2. The ties that bond a relationship are stronger than the obstacles that try to break them.
 * Themes of books**

__Stuff for the Test__ **Sappers** (79) - a combatant soldier who performs a wide variety of combat engineering duties, typically including, but not limited to, bridge -building, laying or clearing minefields, demolitions, field defences, general construction and building, as well as road and airfield construction and repair. **Idiom** (89) - an expression, word, or phrase that has a figurative meaning that is comprehended in regard to a common use of that expression that is separate from the literal meaning or definition of the words of which it is made.
 * Temporal**(11) - enduring for a time only, temporary
 * Vestibular** (15) - pertaining to a vestibule, a vestibule is any small body cavity or space at the entrance of a passage or canal
 * Bedlam** (97) - a state of wild uproar
 * Accrue** (116) - to happen as a result of growth or addition
 * Gelid** (136) - icy; extremely cold
 * Bivouacked** (168) - stay in such a camp: "the battalion was now **bivouacked** in a field."**Promontory** (221) - a high point of land or rock projecting into the sea or other water
 * Sepulchre** (222) - british, a buriel vault, tomb or grave

"Like the dying world the newly blind inhabit, all of it slowly fading from memory" (18). "Can we help him Papa? No. We can't help him. There's nothing to be done for him" (50). “If they find you you are going to have to do it. Do you understand? Shh. No crying. Do you hear me? You know how to do it. You put it in your mouth and point it up. Do it quick and hard. Do you understand? Stop crying. Do you understand?" (113) "But when he bent to see into the boy's face under the hood of the blanket he very much feared that something was gone that could not be put right again" (136). “Maybe there’s a father and his little boy and they’re sitting on the beach. That would be okay. Yes. That would be okay. And they could be carrying the fire too? They could be. Yes” (216).