Questions
1. Why don't people band together and help each other out?
2. Why did this disaster happen in the first place?
Parallel
"He dreamt of walking in a flowering wood where birds flew before them." (18)
"The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose." (47)
The man dreams about and so desperately wants to see beauty and flowers than even when seeing the horrible sight of human bodies in the truck, he thinks about how the flame looks like a flower.
Contrast
"In his dream she was sick and he cared for her." (32)
The man says: "No. We can't help him." (50)
The man is always willing to give help to his son (that's what he lives for) and his wife in his dreams, but he doesn't care at all for the poor man they pass by on the road.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
The Road Section I
Questions
1. How did the man and the boy survive? Will we ever find out?
2. Is there anyone else alive?
3. Where are they?
Parallel
"He raised his face to the paling day...Are you there? he whispered...Have you a heart? Damn you eternally have you a soul? Oh god, he whispered. Oh God." (11-12).
The man says: "This is where we used to have Christmas when I was a boy" (26).
This is a book that seems to revolve around religion and whether the characters have faith in God. The man doubts his existence in the first quote, but tell us of the happy times he had at Christmas (an obviously religious holiday) when he was a child.
Contrast
1. How did the man and the boy survive? Will we ever find out?
2. Is there anyone else alive?
3. Where are they?
Parallel
"He raised his face to the paling day...Are you there? he whispered...Have you a heart? Damn you eternally have you a soul? Oh god, he whispered. Oh God." (11-12).
The man says: "This is where we used to have Christmas when I was a boy" (26).
This is a book that seems to revolve around religion and whether the characters have faith in God. The man doubts his existence in the first quote, but tell us of the happy times he had at Christmas (an obviously religious holiday) when he was a child.
Contrast
"The shape of a city stood in the grayness like a charcoal drawing sketched across the waste" (8).
"In his dreams his pale bride came to him out of a green and leafy canopy" (18).
Everything in the real world is gray and ash, whereas the world in the man's dreams in lively and full of color, which the man hates because it tortures him.
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