Category 1
The mother believes this outcome is inevitable and abandons her family.
What is death?
The father keeps a pistol with this many bullets.
What are two bullets?
This family member becomes the boys' sole protector after the world collapses.
Who is the father?
The boy never calls his father "Dad", but instead calls him this to show respect and closeness.
What is "Papa"?
The father reads these to bond with the boy, although there are few left.
What are books?
To comfort his son, the father describes carrying this invisible symbol of hope.
What is the fire?
The father visualizes this object to stay connected to his wife.
What is the photo?
The father refuses to abandon this object because it helps keep them alive.
What is the cart?
This boys compassion towards strangers reflects this trait learned from his father.
What is empathy?
The father repeatedly tells the boy that the bad guys do this in order to survive.
What is cannibalism/eating people?
The father blames this event on the destruction of the world and of his family.
What is the apocalypse/catastrophe?
The son asks the father repeatedly if they are a part of this group of people.
Who are the good guys?
The father gives this to the boy despite freezing himself.
What is his coat?
The fathers' love is shown when he retrieves this item from a wreckage for the boy.
The father found this place and used it to shelter himself and the boy.
What is the bunker?
The father says the boy is like this religious symbol.
What is a god?
The father refuses to let his son discard this object.
What is the flare gun?
What direction did the father choose to head in to protect him and the boy.
What is south?
The boy wants to keep this animal as a reminder to his father that life still exists.
What is the dog?
A member of a group of what people discover the father and the boy in the woods along the road.
Who are the marauders?
The sons emotional dependency is shown when he constantly asks this question to his father.
What is "are you okay"?
The father uses this act to soothe the boy in fear, even when he cannot fully believe it.
What is the act of lying?
The boy begs his father to help this man because he reminds him of an old relative.
Who is Ely?
The father refuses to let the boy see violence to protect this part of him.
What is his innocence?
The father and son dream of this place, associated with lost family memories.
What is the beach/coast?