Jebidiah's+Tearful+Departure

Lit Circle 1: What do you believable inspired the author to write such a hopeless and empty plot? - He just likes to write about the bad parts of the human race.

About the dream? - We are trying to decipher what it represents.

About the drumming? -We believe it represents death coming after them.

Is it fair for the father to keep the kid alive if he wants to die? - Yes it is as the kid is too young to make that decision.

Vocab Words: Sodden- Wet through and through; thoroughly wet. Languor- the state or feeling, often pleasant

Ever: At all times always

Glaucoma- a condition of increased pressure within the eyeball, causing gradual loss of sight.

Cauterize- Burn, sear, or freeze flesh using a hot iron or electric current or caustic agent.

Discussion 2 1.) What would have you done in the situation between the father and the stranger in the woods? Would you have gone with him? - Shot him making him done to one bullets - Kill the guy to protected the son

2.) Do you think that the son actually saw a little boy? - No

3.) What would you do as the papa? Would you continue south even though the strangers are heading that direction as well and they can be dangerous? - Keep going south

4.) Why do you think the mother left them? Why did she give up? - She did not want to live this way

Using the bullets to kill them selves

Mom thought of this

Why would the dad what the boy to live? - For the how of that there is a batter spot - More intestinal

Discussion 3

He didn't forget about it he just gave up because he knew his dad wasn't going to go back for the kid. The heads that were decorated were the cannibals were marking their territory. He is not stopping for long periods of time because he wants to get his down south because he could be dying He doesnt trust anybody because he doesn't want to risk his sons life. Nobody can be trusted. So they wouldn't torture his son and they wouldn't be able to eat him alive.

Connections This is just like the Game Last of Us, and the movie Zombieland, because it is post apocolyptic and they are both using the road to get somewhere.e

Lit Circle 4: What did you think about the man they ran into? - Very mysterious, had something to hide. How long would have you have stayed in the bunker? - I would have stayed for maybe a week-ish, then scout around and stay there for a couple more days. The boy had a dream that the dad died, do we think it means something about the story? - We think it foreshadows the death of the dad in the story. Do you think this will have a good or bad ending? - Maybe good, because the more happy things that happen, the more the characters talk, there are still a lot of obstacles to overcome though. If you had to, would you eat humans to survive? - We would probably do it because it would be the only way to survive. 1. Kudzu def : an asian vine of the legume family that is used for forage and erosion control and is often a serious weed in the southeastern U.S. sentence- the road descended through a jungle of dead kudzu. 2. Dessicated deff: dehydrated or powered sentence- A human head beneath a cakebell at the end of the counter. Dessicated 3. Patterans deff: any of several coded signs lift along a road. the most common ones consist of crossed springs sentence- the were signs in gypsy language, lost patterans.

Integrity- When the meet the old man, and also when they choose to to eat humans to survive.

Honesty- When the dad says that they are not even close to dying even though they are starving.

Lit Circle 5:

1. In your opinion, what animals do you think that have survived (taking into account the snakes)? cockraoches, some dogs, maybe a bear or two. Any nurtured animal lived, al wild animals are dead except for those who can scavenge and live without food for some time. The problem is they can't tell the difference between clean and dirty water.

2. "When your dreams are of some world that never was or never will be and you are happy again then you will have given up. Do you understand? And you cant give up I wont let you." whats your point of view on this quote? If you start hinkking about thinking about a better world, and you wish you were in a better world. You have given up and you don't want to live in your old world anymore. Plus if you dream of a better world and you wake up from the dream you will be very dissapointed.

3. Based on what the man and boy have found (the coin, the boat, the books in the boat) can you make an assumption of where they are are? Why do you think McCarthy put things that are Spanish in the novel? They are close to the ocean, close to the south where they are trying to get to. There has to be water for there to be a boat.

4.Do you think the characters in this book are dynamic or static? Why? I think the characters are dynamic because they dont ever really develop. They just kinda talk. But tere conversations slightly develop but its like a roller coaster ride, they begin to talk longer and about different things but then something bad happens and they stop talking for some time.

Last Discussion (The End)

1. What do you think the final passage at the very end meant? 2. What do think "carry the fire" means? 3. What do you make of the ending of the story with the death of the father and the son being found by the other family? Do you see hope in this ending? 4. What was your overall view of the book? 5. What was his message? 6. What is good?
 * The final passage represented death, and the fact that there will never be life like before the Apocalypse. As the man says, the deconstruction of the world reveals how it was created.
 * The fire is hope and determination, and to carry it is to continue the struggle of survival with a purpose.
 * We did not like it, because, throughout the book, the father mentors and guides the boy. After he (the father) died though, the rest of the story felt rushed, and we couldn't "connect" to it.
 * The book was extremely dark and miserable, but incredibly hopeful as well.
 * Love is natural and instinctual.
 * You have to be willing to take a risk or let go of the past.