discussion director

pg. 102- they eat the snow-

also- draggind dead limbs- is this tree limbs or arms?

pg. 103- someone had passed them when they were asleep but didnt come close. maybe they thought they were cannabils? are there other 'good people"? on page 104 the boys says- will they know what we are?

when the dad was going through the house do you think other people like them or canniblas also went through the house? what kind of family used to live there? what happened to them?

pg. 129 they are talking about how they are the good guys and they are carrying the fire. is this maybe not a physical thing but like a thing you hold on to and then pass on to someone else. "passing the torch" also, fire as in living and burning. but what happens when the fire burns out?

pg. 131- the faded letters?? what are they?

pg. 132- the man is afraid of his own reflextion. why?

pg. 137- the boy is afriad of the gun

pg. 143- he couldnt find a gun. do you think the other people used it or brought it with them to leave? why didnt they stay?

vocab-

quoits- a game n which rings of rope or flattened metal are thrown at an upright peg

palisade- a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground as for enclosure or defense

emaciation- abnormal thinness caused by lack of nutrition or by disease

ropy- resemblng a rope or ropes

macadam- pavement made of layers of compacted broken stone, now usually bound with tar or ashpalt

connector-

 parents and children in present day use language such as this also. they use short diolect 

page 10, 36, 100,

at the start of page 10 the "okays" start
with
""Are we going to die?" "Sometime. Not now." "And we're still going south" "Yes." "So we'll be warm." "Yes." "Okay" "Okay What" "Nothing. Just Okay" "Go to sleep" "Okay" "Im going to blow out the lamp. "Is that okay?" "Yes. That's okay."

the dad will use the word "okay" to make the boy feel better about the situation at hand.
pg. 36
"He woke whimpering in the night and the man held him. Shh, he said. It's okay."

pg. 100

"You think we're going to die, dont you?"
" I dont know"
"We're not going to die".
"Okay".
"but you dont beleive me."
"I dont know."
"Why do you think we're going to die".
'I dont Know"
"Stop saying I dont know".
"Okay".