The Road #1

Questions:

1. Looking for anything of color?

2. Was boy born before appocalypse?

Parallel:

"Barren, silenct, godless." (pg 4, 2nd paragraph)

"The cold and the silence" (pg 9, last paragraph)

Explenation: In the world after almost whole mankind is dead and there are no animals or any other forms of life, silence is very strong in this times. There is nothing but silence.

Contrast:

"They left their shoes on the warm painted boards and dragged the boat up onto the beach and set out the anchor at the end of its rope." (pg 11) 

"It was very cold." (pg 8, paragraph 1) 

Explenation: There is a lot of coldness in the time after appocalypse, but when he remembers past, he sees warm, nice things.