Dolce+Lindsey

Literary Luminary #2: "On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery" (241). -What is McCarthy using the trout as a motif for? -Why is the trout significant?

"You have to make it like talk that you imagine. And you'll hear me. You have to practice" (235). -Why would the dad encourage his son to talk to him after his death?

"If I'm not here you can still talk to me. You can talk to me and I'll talk to you. You'll see" (235)... "that the breath of God was his breath yet though it pass from man to man through all of time" (241). -Why is the woman so accepting of the boy talking to his dad over God?

Discussion Director #2: Why is the boy being so nice to strangers? How are the boys morals being tested? Do you think this is because of his religion? Why does the man leave the robbers stuff for him?

Vocabulary Miser:
 * 1) __ Decanting __ - To pour (a liquid) from one container into another.
 * 2) “In the service bay he dragged out the steel trashdrum and tipped it over and pawed out all the quart plastic oil bottle. Then they sat in the floor // decanting // them of their dregs one by one, leaving the bottle to stand upside down until at the end they had almost a half a quart of motor oil" (7).
 * 3) __ Effigies __ - a crude figure representing a hated person
 * 4) “…in the bottom of the bins they found a few ancient runner beans and what looked to have once been apricots, long dried to wrinkled // effigies // of themselves" (22).

Connection Master: In the book, the boy and man pass a body that has been struck by lightening. The boy doesn't understand why they can't go back and help the guy. His father keeps telling him that they can't help him, they can't help him. But the boy just does not get it. -This I feel is something we've all experienced at one point in time. For example, one time when I was younger I saw some people moving into a house, and I wanted to go help them, but my mom wouldn't let me. I didn't understand why, but now I see that she didn't allow me to because they were stranger. She was just trying to protect me, like the man was trying to protect his son.

McCarthy describes the mans dreams in the book. They seem to have some kind of meaning to him or memory. -Even though I can't recall the vividness of my dreams, I remember a slight image of a dream I once had. It was a memory, like on of the mans dreams.

Literary Luminary: “Dear people, thank you for all this food and stuff … We’re sorry that you didn’t get to eat it and we hope that you’re safe in heaven with God” (123).

1) What is the boy talking about in this quote? 2) What does the show about the boy(beliefs, character, personality)? 3) What do you think happened to the people who owned this safe haven?

"hideous shrieks coming from the house" (97).

1) What did the house turn out to be used for? 2) Do you think others have fallen for this trap? 3) What did the father and son do to escape this trap?

Discussion Director: 1) Discuss the event from this section 2) What would you do if you were in the position of the man and boy and you saw the men and pregnant lady coming? 3) Do you think there will be consequences for the boy swimming in the ocean? -- If so, what? 4) What do you think McCarthy was trying to point out when he wrote “When we’re all gone at last then there’ll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He’ll be out in the road with nothing to do and nobody to do it to” (145-146)?