Connector 8/1

·         Words to describe The Road so far…

-lonesome

-unsafe

-difficult

-frightening

-vacant

-lifeless

- depressing

-unwelcoming

 

 

·         Character relationships…

The father serves as a support system for the young boy, reassuring him that everything is okay, same role that parents today play in their children’s lives, just a different situation.

 

Connector 8/2

·         The relationship between the boy and his father somewhat resembles the one between Elie Wiesel and his father in Night. Both boys rely on their fathers and see them as a comfort.

·         Feelings of the characters relate to everyday people. The boy feels sad and upset about the man with radiation; the man feels loss and misses his wife.

·         The main characters struggle through something most everyone deals with at one point or another, which is loss. They lost the life they once had; they lost the wife/mother. How can we relate to the feeling of loss today? Whether it’s something as small as the loss of a piece of jewelry, or something much larger, like loss through the death of a loved one.

Good work so far, Elizabeth, though you should have 3 entries by now. Be sure to try out the other jobs as well. You are doing a great job sharing your ideas during your group discussions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Road Quotes 8/9

“Like an animal inside a skull looking out the eyeholes. He wore a beard that had been cut square across the bottom with shears and he had a tattoo of a bird on is neck done by someone with an ill formed notion of their appearance. He was lean, wiry, rachitic. Dressed in a pair of filthy blue coveralls and a black billcap with the logo of some vanished enterprise embroidered across the front of if.”(pg.63) (shock)

 

“He looked back toward the road. I told you not to look back there.” (pg. 64)

 

“He dove and grabbed the boy and rolled and came up holding him against his chest with the knife at his throat. The man had already dropped to the ground and he swung with him and leveled the pistol and fired from a two-handed position balanced on both knees at a distance of six feet. The man fell back instantly and lay with blood bubbling from the hole in his forehead. The boy was lying in his lap with no expression on his face at all” (pg. 66)

 

“A single round left in the revolver. You will not face the truth. You will not” (pg. 68)

 

“Take me with you, the boy said. He looked as if he was going to cry.” (pg. 70)

 

“This was the first human being other than the boy that he’d spoken to in more than a year.” (pg. pg 75)

 

“He sat there cowled in the blanket. After a while he looked up. Are we still the good guys? He said. Yes. We’re still the good guys. And we always will be. Yes. We always will be. Okay.” (pg. 77)

 

Vocab 8/11

Lope-pg.  105: to move or run with bounding steps, as a quadruped, or with a long, easy stride, as a person.

Macadam-pg. 105: a macadamized road or pavement.

 

Façade-pg. 106: any side of a building facing a public way or space and finished accordingly.

Harrow-pg. 109: an agricultural implement with spike like teeth or upright disks, drawn chiefly over plowed land to level it, break up clods, root up weeds, etc.

Privet-pg 111: any of various deciduous or evergreen shrubs of the genus Ligustrum, esp. L. vulgare, having clusters of small white flowers and commonly grown as a hedge.
Handedness-pg. 116: a tendency to use one hand more than the other.

Slatted-pg.118: a long thin, narrow strip of wood, metal, etc., used as a support for a bed, as one of the horizontal laths of a Venetian blind, etc.

Untrodden-pg119:

not trod; not traversed: the untrod wastes of Antarctica.

Also, un⋅trod⋅den.

 

Cowled- pg.126: part of a garment that is draped to resemble a cowl or hood.

Hasp- pg 144: a clasp for a door, lid, etc., esp. one passing over a staple and fastened by a pin or a padlock

 

                                              Group Leader 8/16

1. Summerize the reading

2. What do you think is the meaning behind the dream and why does the man say he sees how he is an alien to the boy?

3 .What point of desperation vs. hpe do you think the man is at now?

4. Do you think that there is any symbolic meaning behind "If you were a crow would you fly up high enough to see sun?"

5. If it were you who came across the old man,what would your first impression and instinct be?

6. Is Elie good or bad?

7. Why would the good guyss be hiding from eachother?

8. What are your thoughts on the scewed baby? What does this say about the people vs. the man and boy?

 

Vocab 2

Swank-dashing smartness, as in dress or appearance; style.

 

Tackless-

a short, sharp-pointed nail, usually with a flat, broad head.

 

2.	Nautical. a. a rope for extending the lower forward corner of a course.   b. the lower forward corner of a course or fore-and-aft sail.

Loggia-

a gallery or arcade open to the air on at least one side.

 

	a space within the body of a building but open to the air on

PALLADIAN-pertaining to, introduced by, or in the architectural style of Andrea Palladio.

 

Seawrack- does not exist

Cascade-

waterfall descending over a steep, rocky surface.

 

2.	a series of shallow or steplike waterfalls, either natural or artificial.

 

3.	anything that resembles a waterfall, esp. in seeming to flow or fall in abundance: a cascade of roses covering the wall.

 

Chrome-

chromium-plated or other bright metallic trim, as on an automobile.