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Characters
Landmarks and Events
Themes and Style
Who Said That?
Misc.
100
These are the two main characters in the story.
Who are the Man and the Boy?
100
What the characters find in the gas station.
What is motor oil from near-empty cans in the trash?
100
The genre of the novel.
What is Post-Apocalyptic Fiction?
100
Who said, "Are we still the good guys?"
Who is the Boy?
100
This man wrote "The Road"
Who is Cormac McCarthy?
200
The slow process and transformation that the Man notes in the Boy's behavior over the course of the novel.
What is the boy once being curious, and no longer caring about what things are?
200
The Man and the Boy find THIS veritable paradise--and name the one thing it doesn't have.
What is the bunker--and how does it not have guns?
200
Who Cormac McCarthy wrote this novel for--and the kind of relationship he wanted to show within.
Who is his son--and why is there a loving and compassionate father-son relationship?
200
Who said, "You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget."
Who is the Man?
200
These are the kind of dreams the Man hopes for--and why.
Why does the Man hope for bad dreams which reflect the world around them and remind him of his purpose?
300
The Boy thinks he sees this during their travels--and what it really represents.
What is a little child--and himself?
300
What the characters find in the grand estate.
What are near-dead and half-eaten "slaves" for the cannibals?
300
This is how the terrain, trees, and buildings look (give a few adjectives)--and one of the things the Man does to protect them from the atmosphere.
What is scorched, dry and weathered, ashy, melted, dead, ransacked, and laid-waste? And what is wear a face-mask or filter their water with a clothe?
300
Who said, "There is no God and we are his Prophets."
Who is Ely?
300
This is where the two characters are heading for most of the story.
What is the Coast?
400
The first character they meet after they reach the coast--and what happens to him or her.
Who is the thief--and why does the man make him strip down naked in the road?
400
The first thing that the man uses a bullet on--and why.
Who is the bird-tattooed, grime-covered bad guy--and why does he put a knife to the Boy's throat?
400
The reason the prose (writing) is so sparse at times--especially dialogue.
What is to show how things are passing away--including words, ideas, and everything that connects things together?
400
Who said, "I don't want your pistol. I just don't want you pointing it at me."
Who is the man that saves the Boy at the end?
400
The thing the Wife decided to do.
What is commit suicide?
500
This man gives the characters a fake name.
Who is Ely?
500
What they find on the coast--and the most valuable find within.
What is a boat--and a flare gun and flare cartridges?
500
The boy continually asks about the differences between these two things, and it represents the struggle between these two things.
What are the "good guys" and the "bad guys"--and good and evil?
500
Who said, "What in God's name are you talking about? We're not survivors. We're the walking dead in a horror film."
Who is the Man's dead wife?
500
Where all the wildlife has gone.
What is extinction?