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How are the two protagonists (boy and father) like and not like the 'bad guys?'

Posted by linda b #249579
Last updated by: Aslan on May 23, 2012 10:01 PM

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How is the boy able to retain his compassion?

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Last updated by: Aslan on May 23, 2012 9:56 PM

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How does the mother kill herself in the book and in the movie?

Posted by kayla w #252343
Last updated by: Aslan on May 22, 2012 2:24 PM

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discuss the theme of right and wrong?

Posted by ashley g #249313
Last updated by: Aslan on May 08, 2012 10:08 PM

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What is the significance of time/sequencing in the book?

Posted by liam c #246753
Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Apr 29, 2012 10:26 AM

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What is the point of view of The Road

Posted by aaron h #242107
Last updated by: Aslan on Apr 08, 2012 11:05 PM

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What do you think the coast represents (phisically and literally)? & why?

Posted by rainey s #214115
Last updated by: rainey s #214115 on Nov 17, 2011 8:05 PM

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What are the key moments that help push the father to keep striving in the book "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

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Last updated by: rainey s #214115 on Nov 17, 2011 7:46 PM

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in the novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy, why does the son apologize for what he said about the dead in the road?

Posted by karina s #199403
Last updated by: Aslan on Nov 01, 2011 9:38 PM

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What is the lost innocence of the boy throughout the book?

Posted by impreet a #209845
Last updated by: Aslan on Oct 30, 2011 11:13 PM

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What did the father and son expect to find when they got to the East Coast? Did they find it?

Posted by lauren p #209511
Last updated by: Aslan on Oct 29, 2011 2:50 PM

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How did the father and his son change throughout the story?

Posted by rawrx3 #202595
Last updated by: Aslan on Sep 27, 2011 3:33 PM

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why does the son apologze for what he said about the dead in the road?

Posted by karina s #199403
Last updated by: Aslan on Sep 10, 2011 8:21 AM

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What warns them of death, if they continue traveling in the same direction?

Posted by christopher l #197997
Last updated by: Aslan on Sep 01, 2011 12:03 AM

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What does carrying the fire mean?

Posted by christopher l #197997
Last updated by: Aslan on Aug 31, 2011 11:50 PM

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why does the father have to explain what to do with the butter and biscuits?

Posted by natchalies s #171051
Last updated by: Aslan on Aug 27, 2011 1:01 AM

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Which genre is the road?

Posted by danny l #197279
Last updated by: Aslan on Aug 26, 2011 10:49 PM

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McCarthy’s The Road deals directly with the discord between the desire to thrive against a harshly demanding environment and the aspiration to preserve morality amongst humanity’s determination to survive. How does it encourage me to consider the conc

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what do the father and son eat that is fermented

Posted by erica r #175345
Last updated by: jason s #194399 on Aug 03, 2011 4:56 PM

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The Road

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Last updated by: kimberley g #192413 on Jul 19, 2011 8:31 PM

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How does the book differ from the movie?

Posted by kimberley g #192413
Last updated by: Aslan on Jul 10, 2011 6:30 PM

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At the end of the novel, is the boy's rescue too contrived and unrealistic?

Posted by ruth c #167487
Last updated by: Aslan on Apr 16, 2011 11:48 PM

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Comparisons!!!

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Last updated by: jazz n #171807 on Mar 01, 2011 5:59 PM

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