The Road

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The Road by Cormac McCarthy
By Andria and Francis
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He pushed the cart and both he and the boy
carried knapsacks. In the knapsacks were
essential things. In case they had to abandon
the cart and make a run for it. Clamped to the
handle of the cart was a chrome motorcycle mirror
that he used to watch the road behind them. page
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We live in a world where life is easy for us, but
what we dont think about is how much we take
things for granted. What we dont realize is that
all of that can be taken away, and we will have
nothing to resort to but each other. What will we
become then? Francis
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For me, this book wasnt about how depressing the
world might become, or how it already is
depressing. This novel is a wonderful example of
how love will always be unconditional and how
families can stick together through anything.
The love shared between the man and the boy is
the strongest bond known to mankind. Andria
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They came to an old iron bridge in the woods
where the vanished road had crossed an all but
vanished steam. He was starting to cough and hed
hardly breath to do it with. He dropped down out
of the road way and into the woods. He turned and
stood gasping, trying to listen He heard nothing.
He staggered on another half hour mile or so and
finally dropped to his knees and put the boy down
in the ashes and leaves. He wiped the blood from
his face and held him. Page 66
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Across the fields to the south he could see the
shape of a house and a barn. Beyond the trees
the curve of the road. A long drive with dead
grass. Dead ivy along a stone wall and a mailbox
and a fence along the road and dead trees beyond.
Cold and silent. Shrouded in the carbon fog.
He walked back and sat beside the boy. It was
desperation that had led him to such carelessness
and he knew that he could not do that again. No
matter what. page 117
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We wouldnt ever eat anybody would we? No. Of
coarse not. Even if were starving? Were
starving now. You said we werent I said we
werent dying. I didnt say we werent starving.
But we wouldnt. No. We wouldnt. No matter
what? No. No matter what. Because were the good
guys. Yes. Page 129
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He was beginning to think death was finally upon
them and that they should find some place to hide
where they would not be found. There were times
when he sat watching the boy sleep that he would
begin to sob uncontrollably but it wasnt about
death. He wasnt sure what it was about but he
thought it was about beauty or about goodness.
Things that hed no longer any way to think about
at all. They squatted in a bleak wood and drank
ditch water strained through a rag. Hed seen
the boy in a dream lay out on a coolingboard and
woke in horror. What he could bear in the waking
world he could not by night and he sat awake for
fear the dream would return. page 130
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What is death?