Noah+Burks


 * __Literary Luminary:__**

1. “Then they set out along the blacktop, in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each other’s world entire”. (6)

2. “The right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor and death”. (18)

Discussion Leader:

1. What effect do you think the father's bloody cough will have on his eventual health?

2. Do you think the man reached out for their help, or did the lightning kill him instantly?

3. What importance does the fact that the man is finding all these places that used to mean something to him; his old house, an important spot to his childhood, play on the story.

4. How symbolic is the fire they scrimp together almost every night, as well as the snow and cold.

5. Do you believe the boy ever truly knew or met his mother, before she died.


 * __Connection Master:__**

1. I imagine The Road to be very close in situation to The Hatchet series. A different setting yes, one a wilderness, and the other the outskirts of cities, towns, and rural areas. But the situation is the same, a constant struggle for food, survival.

2. Many people can relate with me to a past hunting experience where we spent the entire night in the woods, awake. It got very cold, and incredibly dark, we can relate to The Road in the fear that is brought by the dark, and how easily the cold can sink into you and stay there when you're surrounded by it, given the chance.

__//**Vocabulary Miser:**//__

Harrowtrough: the effect created by a field being plowed. In the book, the word is used to describe the grooves within corrugated metal. The corrugate shapes of old harrowtroughs still faintly visible.

Skein: a long, loosely coiled strand of metal. "There were grey slag pools of melted glass in the ditches and the raw light wires lay in rusting skeins for miles.

(Need to remember to write down page number next time)


 * __Literary Luminary: __**

“Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.” (169)

“When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.” (5)

“How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said.

I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it.

Nobody would know it.

It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too.” (150)

__**Discussion Leader: **__

1. Did any one else feel as though the ending was rushed, yes the very ending was beautiful, but towards the end of the books conclusion i feel as though it was incredibly rushed, any thoughts?

2. Why do you believe the man with the shotgun helped the boy, what or who do you think he represents?

3. Would you take the chance the boy did and go with the man, or try to make it on your own and take no chances, almost like the boys father.

4. If you could extend the ending (past what was said after the boy agreed to go with the man) or change the ending (starting immediately after his father died) what would you say or change?