Apocalyptic characters
How are the two main characters connected to each other?
What is the father and son.
What is the weather like in the road?
What is very cold and often snowing.
What are the names of the son and the father?
What is they do not have names.
What can fire symbolize?
What is fire could symbolize making moral decisions and maintaining hope for the future.
Why does the father want to go south or somewhere warmer?
What is because he knows that they will die if they stay where it is from how cold it is.
What did the "bad guys" do that separated them from the "good guys"?
What is cannibals.
What is constantly falling from the sky?
What is ash and snow.
What do the father and son mean to each other?
What is the father and sons lives are extremely important to each other and it was mentioned earlier in the book that neither would live without each other.
What can the shopping cart symbolize?
What is the cart could represent home, safety, and civilization.
What does the father say about what the people that live in the house do to the people locked in the basement?
What is that they must eat those people down there.
What is the character that got shot in the head by the father in the beginning of the book described as?
What is the bearded man.
Where did the father and son find the naked kidnapped people?
What is they found them locked up in the basement of the old house.
What does the father believe in the beginning of the book about the boy?
What is he believes that he has been entrusted by God to keep the boy safe and to protect him from harm and the evils in the world.
What can animals symbolize in the road?
What is animals could symbolize that the old world is lost. The man remembers what many different animals used to sound like and how they are gone can symbolize how the old world is lost.
What is the place the father and the boy find that has lots of food and they stay there for a few days?
What is they found a bunker.
Who is the character who stole the Father and sons cart and was later held at gunpoint to strip his clothes?
What is the thief.
When does the book take place (Past, present, or future)?
What is the future.
What is one of the boys top priorities to make sure of what they are?
What is that they are the good guys.
What could the pistol that the father holds symbolize?
What is it could symbolize safety. It could also symbolize the boys escape from life because the father said he would shoot the boy if they were to get captured by cannibals.
What is the thing that the father and the son find washed up on shore and why is it important?
What is the father and the son find a washed up giant ship on the shore. This is important because it gave them lots of resources and a flare gun.
What happened to the mother?
What is the mother left the father and son and killed herself.
With information given earlier in the book where could the setting possibly take place?
What is in the South.
How does the boy feel once his father dies?
What is the boy is sad because his father died, but also because of he is alone with no friends or family.
What can the carbonated drink that the father and the son drink symbolize?
What is it could symbolize what they have lost and what the world has lost. While the boy was drinking it, it was like something foreign to him. Right now soda is very common and popular and where they are it is rare and lost.
What was the thing that the father and the son found when they followed the smoke in the trees, and what is its importance?
What is they found a headless infant and it was important because it showed what could happen to them if they weren't careful.