Plot
The place man and the boy are trying to get to
What is the coast or the south?
"And I won't forget. No matter what."
What the boy promises to do with his dad (talk to him in his head) every day once the dad dies?
The first person the man and the boy encounter on the road
Who is the burnt man?
"Standing with his suitcase like an orphan waiting for a bus" (275).
What is a simile?
The only geographic place name in the novel.
What is "Rock City"?
The man and boy find this near the shore when they finally get there.
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 about Ely the father never finds out?
"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 visual imagery?
The man finds these dried on the ground and collects them as a food source.
What are dried apples?
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" and "they don't give up."
This is what the mom did
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?
"Pajaro de Esperanza"
What is the name of the wrecked ship where the father looks for supplies?
The boy worries his father will find and eat one of these
What is a dog?
"Can you do it? When the time comes?"
What is smash his son's head with a rock?
The man the father shoots actually went into the trees to do this.
What is go to the bathroom?
"We are carrying the fire"
What is symbolism?
The father and son have to backtrack for this when they are camping on the beach.
What is the gun that the boy forgets?
The man puts this over the hatch to the cellar in order to try and hide it
What is a mattress?
"Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again."
What the father says to his son as he is dying.
The boy sees this charred in a fire.
What are the remains of an infant?
"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 visual imagery?
"You're kind of weirded out, arent you?"
What the man says to the boy when they meet after the father dies?