Maya+Schattgen

Connection Master page 1-30 1.Dad My dad has shown me how resourceful he is. When there is an issue with the house, he is usually able to fix the problem. The father in //The Road// uses what he has to survive.

2. //Revolution// is a show about how the world has lost power. This is relatable to //The Road// because the father once had a modern day world that he lived and it was taken away.

Quotations pages 31-82

1. "He's been struck by lightning. Cant we help him? Papa?  No. We cant help him.  The boy kept pulling at his coat. Papa? he said.  Stop it.  Cant we help him Papa?  No. We cant help him. There's nothing to be done for him" (50). - first person that they had seen in a long time -the boy learned more about life

2. "They came shuffling through the ash casting their hooded heads from side to side. Some of them wearing canister masks. One in a biohazard suit. Stained and filthy. Slouching along with clubs in their hands, lengths of pipe. Coughing. Then he heard on the road behind them what sounded like a diesel trunk. Quick, he whispered, quick" (60-61). - why has everyone given up their humanity?

Discussion questions 83-135 1. Why was the boy insisting that there was a little boy and then be so quick to forget about him? 2. What purpose did the people have to decorate the human heads? 3. Why does the dad consider everyone to be the "bad guys"? 4. Why do you think that the dad is so quick to tell the boy to kill himself after trying so hard to keep he alive?

vocabulary 136-185

1. **Kudzu (177)** 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 (184) ** deff: dehydrated or powered sentence- A human head beneath a cakebell at the end of the counter. **Dessicated** 3. **Patterans (180)** 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**.

Connection Master 186-235 The part where they meet people on the road and where they are looking for the people that are walking behind them reminds me of //The Hunger Games//. They are forced to fend for themselves and there are people out there that will kill them.

//Lord Of The Flies// also reminds me of the road. the boys where forced to change the way the lived to survive. The boy and the dad have to do the same thing. They lived one way but have to find a way to survive but they are just two people the boys on the island where a lot more.

Quotations 236-the end "The storm had littered the shore and he walked the tideline looking for anything of use. In the shallows beyond the breakwater an ancient corpse rising and falling among the driftwood. He wished he could hide it from the boy but the boy was right. What was there to hide?" (236). The man's fatherly instincts are still there. He wants to protect his son from seeing terrible things. The boy however has already seen such things. At this time there is no point in trying to protect the boy from witnessing this.

Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie"(239). This is saying that he is living a lie by trying to find assurance in his life. The fact that he will die is the only certainty he has in his life.

"What's the bravest thing you ever did? He spat into the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.  Really?  No. Don't listen to me. Come on let's go"(272). The man may be saying that getting up that morning was the hardest thing to do because he had to face the future of his life and the consequences and that means leaving the boy behind. That may be why he didn't want to explain anymore.