So far I am really diggin’ this book and its’ post apocalyptic setting. The boy in the story is very young and whatever it was that turned the world upside down has happened several years ago. Soon after this happened the boy’s mother, and the man’s wife, took her life out on the road somewhere. The man kept a picture of her in his wallet, but he eventually dumped it out with the rest of his wallet onto the road. He was also forced to shoot a man in order to save his son’s life. I feel that this showed that he had given up on the past, pre-apocalyptic world, and had realized that at least in his lifetime, they would never return to such a civilized and relatively peaceful life. The man’s wife was in the past, and she was going to stay there. All he has to look forward to is a life with his son.
I agree with you Nahel. The book has been pretty interesting so far and I found it interesting how symbolic the man getting rid of his wallet was. It has no use to him now, and the only thing that is important to him is keeping his son alive and safe.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your post on this book Nahel, because it made the book seem very dramatic and eventful. It seems extremely different from the book I'm reading, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, in almost every way. The only connection I can make is how the father and son have only each other, and in my book, the narrator gives the impression that it is her and her older brother against the world. The close relationship between the father and son in your book seems to have developed due to adversity, and the close relationship between the narrator and her brother developed also due to adversity, although of a different kind.
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