Charlie+Garbutt

//Lit Circle 1:// //"... there is no other dream nor other waking world and there is no other tale to tell.// //On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world. Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?" (27)//

//"The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know because I would never have come this far. A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and shield it from harm with your body." (49)//

//Lit Circle 2:// Sodden- Wet through and through; thoroughly wet.

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

Lit Circle 3: This book is hugely reminiscent of a video game called The Last of Us. As there are two people trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic territory.

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.

Lit Circle 5: “What would you do if I died? If you died I would want to die too. So you could be with me? Yes. So I could be with you. Okay.”

This shows how the man loves the boy and needs him.

“Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.”

I just though this quote was really well written, it shows how when everything ends, we can see the beginning of something else.

Lit Circle 6: Bedlam: A state of extreme confusion and disorder. //"dull **bedlam** dying in the distance."//

Mendicant: A pauper who lives by begging. //"Then they set out upon the road again, slumped and cowled and shivering in their rags like **mendicant** // //friars sent forth to find their keep." //