Surviving the Journey
The father and son push this object that carries their supplies down the road.
What is a Shopping Cart?
Mr. Shanklin's favorite football team is in the same state where Mr. McCarthy came up with the idea for The Road
Texas
The boy’s empathy is shown when he wants to help a man who seemed to be struck by this
What is Lightning?
The father insists they are “carrying the ____,” meaning they still have goodness within them.
What is Fire?
This fizzing beverage gave the father and son their first happy moment of the story
What is Coca-Cola?
The father refuses to share their food with this old man they later meet on the road.
Who is Ely?
McCarthy published The Road in this year, the same year Mr. Shanklin was in his junior year of college
What is 2006?
In the beginning of the story, the man dreams about a creature with eyes “sightless as the eggs of ______”
What are spiders?
Man off the truck: "You ain't got but two shells. Maybe just one. And they'll hear the shot."
Papa: Yes they will. _______ _________ _________."
What is "But you won't"?
The man often recalls this woman, whose suicide symbolizes despair and loss of hope.
The mother
These are the TWO biggest threats to the boy and the man in the story
What are Cannabalism and Starvation?
(will also take the cold or weather)
You could describe Mr. Shanklin as the opposite of this McCarthy book title No Country for ____ Men
What is Old?
At one point in the book, the father tells the boy to stop responding with this phrase
What is "I don't know"?
"Can you do it? When the _____ comes? When the _____ comes there will be no ______?"
What is time?
After leaving the bunker, the man gives the boy directions, and the boy responds by asking if there could be any of this particular species of animal left.
What are crows?
In addition to searching for food, the man is highly attentive to the upkeep of this item.
What are shoes?
McCarthy was known to be a man of PEACE, which for Mr. Shanklin stands for this
Positive Energy Activates Constant Elevation
After leaving the bunker, the man realizes he hasn't seen this item in a while. When he asked the boy what happened to it, he says he "threw it away"
What is the flute?
The boy continually asks about the differences between these two groups, and it represents the struggle between these two things.
What are the "good guys" and the "bad guys"?
The animal featured in the boy's first nightmare.
What is a penguin?
What are the 4 items the man removed from his billfold and left in the road?
What are money, credit cards, driver's license, and a picture of his wife?
McCarthy got into a lot of controversy over his depiction (or lack of depiction) of this group in the novel; Mr. Shanklin has a lot of them in his family...maybe you do too.
What is women?
Early in the story, during the man's dream, the wife is referred to as the pale _______.
What is Bride?
In part 3, the father says the phrase, "As the crow flies." He tells the boy that it means this
What is "going in a straight line"?
The father whittles down one of these to make fake bullets for his gun
What is a tree branch?