I just finished the book "The Road". I really enjoyed this book even though we never really found out a whole lot about the characters. In other books that we had read this semester I had not really enjoyed the books that did not build on the character of the story. The reason I enjoyed this book is we really didn't need to know about the characters because I think the book was supposed to make you think about how you would act in this situation. The main theme to the book in my eyes is trying to decide what is right and wrong. The boy would always ask his father whether it was ok that they where taking other peoples things. It also made you think about what you would do to survive. Would you be one of the people that resulted to eating other human beings. I know I wouldn't because that is descusting and wrong but it makes you wonder just what people are willing to do in order to survive.
The last thing that I wanted to talk about is the very end of the book. When the boy goes out into the road and sees the man coming why didn't he run away. If he would of done what his dad had told him he would of ran back into the woods. I was also wondering why the man with the shotgun never tried to talk to the boy and man before because we know that they had been following them for sometime since he asked who the man the boy was with was. I guess he was scared that the man would try to take his stuff or try to kill him.
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I agree with you about the books that didn’t show more to the characters, I couldn’t get into them either. I personally need to get to know who I am reading about. With “The Road” we don’t really need to get to know the characters because it’s not really about the characters but what they are set out to do, their travel and the relationship that they share, also what you had said, what is right and wrong.. Most novels we have read in the class are about something that we need to get to know the characters to understand what and why they are doing what they are doing.
ReplyDeleteThere is no way that I could eat someone. Even if I was dying from starvation and they were dead, just chilling on ground. I just don’t see me ever doing that, there are just so many wrong things with that thought so, moving on.
I don’t think that they boy ran away from the “shotgun man” because I don’t really think that they boy cared if he was going to be alive or not, he just lost his dad. I also think he didn’t run because the shotgun man was in a yellow ski jacket, I don’t think that the “bad guys” would be wear bring colors. However, they boy was read to use his gun that his dad had given him.
~Marah