Shuang+Liu

9/9/2013 Connection Master: (p1-30)

“A small space under the eaves. This is where I used to sleep. My cot was against this wall. In the nights in their thousands to dream the dreams of a child’s imaginings, worlds rich or fearful such as might offer themselves but never the one to be.” Here remains me that this place where the man used to sleep looks like where Harry Potter used to sleep, the place was small, but it was sweet and warm.

“The peeling wooden clapboards were largely gone from the lower walls for firewood leaving the suds and the insulation exposed. The rotted screening from the back porch lay on the concrete terrace. ” It looked like the house was pretty old, and was even rotted. The house just liked the house maybe in horror movie. The environment around the house was desolate. Nobody was around.

9/10/2013 Discussion Director:

 “In his dream she was sick and he cared for her. He did not take care of her and she died alone somewhere in the dark and there is no other dream nor other waking world and there is no other tale to tell”

1) Who is the girl which the man always dreamt about? What is the relationship between the man and the girl?

2) Why did the man always dream about this girl? Why did the author mention that “there is no other waking world and there is no other tale to tell” about the dream?

3) How can they survive during winter with heavy snow?

4) Why did the author always tell about the man’s dreams and the boy’s dreams? What were those dreams stand for?

5) Why did the man want his son to swim in the pool? And why did the man teach the boy how to swim?

6) What some of evidences did prove that there were still other people except the father and son?

9/12/2013

Literary Luminary: “We should go get him, Papa. We could get him and take him with us. We could take him and we could take the god .The dog could catch something to eat. We can’t. And I’d give that little boy half of my food.” <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Q: Why did the boy want to take the little boy, even the dog, with them? How did the boy feel when he saw the boy and heard the dog?. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Behind them came wagons drawn by slaves in harness and piled with goods of war and after that the women, perhaps a dozen in number, some of them pregnant, and lastly a supplementary consort of catamites illclothed against the cold and fitted in dogcollars and youked each to each.” <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Q: Those guys wore weird clothing. Who were they? Why were they so weird? How did those guys form this group?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Huddled against the back wall were naked people, male and female, all trying to hide, shielding their faces with their hands. On the mattress lay a man with his legs gone to the hip and the stumps of them blackened and burnt. The smell was hideous.”

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Q: why were those naked people down there? What happened to them? Who did enjail them?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">9/17/2013

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Vocabulary Miser:

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Carpenter: work as a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Rough stairs carpentered out of two by tens leading down into the darkness.” (p137)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cartridge: ammunition consisting of a cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">“He found a box of .45 ACP cartridges and three boxes of .30-30 rifle shells.” (p147)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">9/22/13

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Connection Master: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. “They lay in a field until dark watching the road but no one came.” (p186) From this quote, I can tell that this world already had no one except the man and the boy. Darkness is everywhere and around them; the road only had the man and the boy. It remains me that they were facing the end of the world, and they had no choice to do. Also, they had to face the death, struggle with surviving.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. “Years later he’d stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at the lies arranged in their thousands row on row.” In this quote, I can tell that this world already lose the control. Everything was out the control. People had riot, and lose their minds. It remains me the scenes from Disaster Movie which everything was on fire.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">9/24/13

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Literary Luminary:

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">“When the light broke over the beach again he saw that the boy was bent and was whispering to himself.”

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Q: Why did the boy whisper to himself? What was the meaning of that? Make a guess, what did the boy whisper to himself?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">“He shook his head. I don’t know what we’re doing, he said. The man started to answer. But he didn’t. After a while he said: There are people. There are people and we’ll find them. You’ll see.”

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Q: why did the man start to answer then he do not? Does this action show anything about the man changing? Why did the man say about there are people and they want to find them? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">.