The Road
The thing that the man does often that shows he is sick.
What is coughs uncontrollably?
What is "Cannibals"?
The narrator's little sister, who she must be constantly responsible for. This character is often lost in her own dream world, and sometimes her immaturity makes the narrator embarrassed in front of her friends.
Who is Nenny?
The woman that the narrator got her name from. She didn’t want to get married but was forced into it, and looked silently out the window her whole life.
Who is the Great-grandmother?
The event that takes place after the man throws the grenade.
What is he kills the young soldier?
The time that the clock stop at the beginning of the apocalypse
What is 1:17 AM?
What is struck by lightning?
The narrator's best friends; they live across the street from Esperanza and share in many of her early adventures.
Who is Rachel and Lucy?
What are fancy shoes?
The cause of the narrators memory about the war.
What is his daughter asking him if he's ever killed anyone?
The description of the coast.
What is the whole beach and ocean are gray and there are fish skeletons along the coast line?
How the man's journey on the road comes to an end.
the arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words side-by-side or in similar narrative moments
The location of Esperanza's most traumatic sexual assault.
What is the carnival?
The name of a soldier who is helping him keep watch at his ambush site.
What "carrying the fire" symbolizes.
What is the hope to stay good and never give up?
A happy moment that the dad and boy share.
What is sharing a can of coke?
What is swimming in the waterfall?
What is riding the cart downhill like a sled?
A girl the narrator befriends as she starts to get older. She is more sexually mature and seems beautiful and glamorous. She has an abusive father and lets herself be taken advantage of by boys. The narrator feels very protective of her even though she isn't a very good friend.
Who is Sally?
a short, well-written sketch or descriptive scene
What is a vignette?
Three details about the setting of the story.
What is foggy, dawn, and mosquito-y?
The object that the woman used to kill herself?
What is a flake of obsidian?
The thing that the man in the yellow ski parka did.
What is he finds the boy after his father's death and lets him join his family?
An adult neighbor who still acts like a child and plays with the narrator and her friends.
Who is Ruthie?
The thing that Esperanza says she likes to do at the end of the book.
What is tell stories?
What is My Khe, Vietnam?