Reading Journal 11/17-11/21

Title / author / date: The Road, Cormac McCarthy, 11/17/08

 

Pages read: 7

 

Summary: The book was about two people surviving in the world basically they were two last people. A men and a little boy they were staying still at home but they could kept staying in the house because it was very cold. They started walking south.

 

 

My Questions:

 

1.  Is the boy going to survive?

 

2.  Are they going to survive the cold weather?

 

 

My Response:

 The guy is worry about staying out without a roof he sleeps next to the boy so they could keep worm to each other. The guy carried out a pistol with him all the time because they are in the open doors.

 

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Title / author / date: The Road, Cormac McCarthy, 11/18/08

 

Pages read: 7-15

 

Summary: 

 They were walking south all day looking for food and people that might still be in the world and roof to sleep. Also to go a worm place to stay at because they were in a very cold place and they though they were not going to make it because of the cold.

 

My Questions:

 

1.  IS the cold going to take them apart?

 

2.  Why is they boy keep telling him about what happen if I died?

 

 

My Response:

 They guy and the kid are going to hard time they are eating cold food and very little. They are sleeping outside with rain falling down on they. Also they boy ask him about his death because I think he doesn’t have no more strange but he only keep living for his dad.

 

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Dad said, “Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”

 

Title / author / date: The Road, Cormac McCarthy, 11/20/08

 

Pages read: 15-23

 

Summary: They kept walking south and they were found a home with food inside of it. They both ate their first food in a long time. They keep in their mind where this people that they left home. They were getting close to country that the father remember.

 

 

My Questions:

 

1.  Is the boy happy the found a roof to sleep more happy?

           

 

2. Does the boy have the right to hold the pistol?

 

 

My Response:

 The boy and father are happy because they actually ate something for the first time in their life’s. They were happy what they have ate that day. The father is in the top of the tree looking at the city that he knows about. And the son is holding a pistol.

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