The Road - Clip 1 by dreadcentral
This homework needs to be on your blog by NEXT WEDNESDAY 1st APRIL
UPDATE
Some questions to consider and answer
- What element of forshadowing is employed in this section and why? (pg 62)
- What does the description of the men teach us about them? (Characterisation pg 62-3)
- McCarthy uses a simile when describing the truck 'Lumbering and creaking like a ship'. Why does he do this?
- Why does Mccarthy describe the Road Rat in such detail? (Characterisation pg 65)
- Why is the Road Rats character so explicit whilst the man is so implicit?
- What do we learn about the man through his exchanges with the Road Rat? (Pg 68. Consider the Man's impressive medical knowledge, look at the description of the grabbing of the boy and the shooting of the Road Rat)
- "A single round left in the revolver. You will not face the truth. You will not" Who is the man echoing here? How do you believe these words are uttered?
- Why don't the other men chase after the boy and the man following the shooting? (there are clues on pg 73-4).
- It is not until page 77 that the man finally cleans the "gore" and "dead mans brains" from the boys face. Why? (Be aware that in the intervening pages he has kept him warm with blankets, fed him etc yet not cleaned his face)
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