The Road #2

Questions:
1. Why is boy so afraid of their old house?
2. What about radiation? Where is it?


Parallel:
"All much as he’d remembered it." (pg 22, 2nd paragraph)
"Old stories of courage and justice as he remembered them until the boy was asleep in his blankets and then he stoked the fire and lay down warm and full and listened to the low thunder of the falls beyond them in that dark and threadbare wood." (pg 35, 2nd paragraph)

Explenation: In this book remembering is very strong, father is talking a lot about memories and past.




Contrast:
"There were fires still burning high in the mountains and at night they could see the light from them deep orange in the soot-fall." (pg 25, 1st paragraph)
"He got a fire going and they set about dragging up a great brushpile of wood to see them through the night."

Explenation: Despite it that fire was everywhere and it was destroying everything that was in its' way. They needed fire to survive.