Sunday, September 15, 2013
The Road Analysis
"The weather lifted and the cold and they came at last into the board lowland river valley, the pieced farmland still visible, everything dead to the root along the barren bottom lands" (McCarthy 21). This is describing the conditions that the father and son are in. All they are doing is trying to find a place to get out of the cold and rest. "Their feet were wet and cold and their shoes were being ruined" (McCarthy 20). "They squatted in the road and ate cold rice and cold beans that they"d cooked days ago. Already beginning to ferment. No place to make a fire that would not be seen. They slept huddled together in the rank quilts in the dark and the cold" (McCarthy 29). I infer that the father and the son will always stay close to each other and will find a way out of the cold together. But on the way there might be obstacles like shortage of food or gangs trying to hurt them cause they also need to survive in this freezing weather. And maybe animals will come across into the father and son's way of trying to survive.
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This seems like a dystopian setting. This reminds me a Haiti, because they don't have much food. Do the father and son meet any other people?
ReplyDeleteyeah i agree with danielle i think its a dystopic setting and it also looks like a very interesting book also if you look in the background it kind of looks like a tornado.
ReplyDeleteI like the inference you made about the book like the father and son having to face obstacles. I like the picture the gloominess and what Evan said about the tornado.
ReplyDeleteI have seen the movie for this book and it is very good! I think that the father and the boy will stay together through the roughest of times and make it through their predicament. The ending of the movie is so good and played out so well in the movie and I hope when I read this that it is as good as the movie. Good luck on your reading.
ReplyDeleteI have heard of this book before and I have heard about the movie too. Are they alike in any way? Which is better in your opinion the book or the movie? I've heard good things about both the book and the movie? which would you rather suggest the movie or the book first?
ReplyDeletesounds interesting this book reminds me of a book i just read
ReplyDeleteThis setting sounds really, good but how did they get into this situation.
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