Cami+Parrish

Vocabulary for pages 1-30: Gryke- noun. A limestone pavement is a natural karst landform consisting of a flat, incised surface of exposed limestone that resembles an artificial pavement. "He descended into a gryke in the stone and there he crouched coughing and he coughed for a long time" (11). Refracted- verb. T o deflect (light, for example) from a straight path. "The faint light all about, quivering and sourceless, refracted in the rain of drifting soot"(15). Chifforobe- noun.  closet-like piece of furniture that combines a long space for hanging clothes with a chest of drawers. "Cheap stuffed furniture together with an old handmade cherrywood Chifforobe" (22). Literary Luminary for pages 30-82 "It was a waterfall dropping off a high self of rock and falling... Wow, the boy said. He couldnt take his eyes off it" (37) "A picture of his wife... Then he laid it down in the road also and then he stood and they went on" (51). "I am done with my own whorish heart and I have been for a long time... My heart was ripped out of me the night he was born so dont ask for sorrow now" (57). Questions: Quote one: Why was this sight so amazing for the boy? Could it have given the man hope? Quote two:What was the significance of him leaving a picture of wife behind? Quote three: Who is this quote revering too and what does it mean? What happened to the man's wife? Connection Master 82-135 1.There where two things in this section that really reminded me of //Goodnight Mr.Tom.// The first being the relationship between the man and the boy, in goodnight Mr.Tom the man saved the boy's life and protected him much like how the father is protecting his son in //The Road//. The second being the gory descriptions of certain scenes. The section on page 90 in the road talking about dried and dead humans reminded me of how I felt when reading about the awful abuse of the boy in //Goodnight Mr.Tom// under the stairwell sitting in his own escarpments. Although the books have completely different concepts they affected me in similar ways. 2. Reading this chapter just made me think of human nature and how there are really no people in this book that can be labeled bad people. The people that are eating others are just following the rules of survival of the fittest and doing what they can to stay alive. The father of the boy knows about human nature, which is why he is avoid all other humans, whereas the boy is to trusting and thinks everyone will do the right thing. 3. I cannot not really relate to this book on a serious level because my life has never been in danger and I have never experienced the end of the world, but I can relate to the feeling of not wanting to go on. The boy is young and everyday he is getting weaker and seeing worse and more gory things it seems. I lost my father when I was in 3rd grade and couldn't even move for three days and every day was another step closer to realizing he was never going to come back. I think that every day the boy is losing some of his young ignorance and losing hope. Discussion Director: 1.What did the son and the father find right when they were about to give up all hope? What was the significance of the bunker? In what ways would you consider it to be a time capsule of the old world? 2. Why did the boy say a prayer at the table before breakfast? How did he know that some people pray before meals when his father had never told him and he was not alive in the old world? 3.Do you think the father son bond in the new world has any similarities to the father son bond in the old world? 4. Who do the boy and father meet on the road? How does the boy and the fathers first judgements of the man differ? Why do they help the man? Vocab: Page 186-235 __Caustic__- It can be sarcastic in a mean and bitter way, but in the book it means a substance that is able to burn or corrode organic tissue by chemical action. "In the past when he walked out like that and sat looking over the country lying in just the faintest visible shape where the lost moon tracked the caustic waste he'd sometimes see a light" (188). The caustic insecticide destroyed the field of flowers. __Harrowtroughs__- The turning up of earth; When dirt is moved or stacked on top of things. "The corrugate shapes of old harrowtroughs still faintly visible" (195). After the huge rain storm the fresh harrowtroughs in the field were refilled with dirt. __Promontory__-This is an area of high land that jets out into large bodies of water. "At the end of the strand their way was blocked by a headland and they left the beach and took and old path up through the dunes and through the dead seaoats until they came out upon a low promontory" (221). I watched the ships go by from dawn to dusk on the rocky promontory.

Literary Luminary 235- The End Quote one: "Standing there raw and naked, filthy, shivering. Covering himself with his hand. He was already shivering" (257) Who is this quote referring too? What effect does taking a man's cloths have in this new world? How did the boy feel about what him and the father did to the man? What did the father and the boy end up doing? Quote two: "He watched him come through the grass and kneel with the cup of water he'd fetched. There was light all about him"(277). Who is this quote about? How does this represent the bond between the father and the boy? What is the significance of the boy being surrounded by light? Quote Three: "We can't just leave him here. Yes we can... Could we cover him with one of the blankets? I'll do it. Go on now. Okay" (285). Why did the boy cover his father even though his father asks him not too? Even though the father died do you think he succeeded in his goal? What was the fathers goal?