Plot
The man and the boy are trying to get
What is south
"And I won't forget. No Matter what."
What is to talk to the man every day even though he is dead.
"Standing with his suitcase like an orphan waiting for a bus" (275)
What is a simile
The current captain of the Boston Bruins
Who is Zdeno Chara
The man and the boy find a what on the shore
What is a boat
"She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift"
What is the mom killing herself
Ely's real name
What is we do not know.
"Huddled against the back wall were naked people, male and female, all trying to hide, shielding their faces with their hands. On the mattress lay a mans with his legs gone to the hip and the stumps of them blackened and burnt" (110)
What is imagery
Where is Mac from?
What is Harpswell
The man and the boy find this in the woods
What is a train
"This is what the good guys do. They keep _______. They don't _____ _____"
What is they keep trying. They don't give up.
The mom did what
What is killed herself
"I've taken a new lover. He can give me what you cannot.
Death is not a lover.
Oh yes he is" (57)
What is personification.
When was the last time the Bruins won the Stanley Cup?
What is 2011
What does the boy worry his father will eat
"Can you do it? When the time comes?"
What is smash his son's head with a rock
The man who was shot was trying to
"We are carrying the fire"
What is symbolism.
How many times have the Boston Bruins won the Stanley Cup?
What is 6
The man put this over the hatch to the cellar
What is a mattress
"But who will find him if he's lost?"
"Goodness will find the little boy"
What was charred in the fire
What is a baby
"The wall beyond held a frieze of human heads, all faced alike, dried and caved with their taut grins and shrunken eyes" (90)
What is imagery.
What is Mac's favorite book?
What is Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut