Chattahoochee River
Thursday, March 19, 2015
The Road Part 3
During this section of the book, I was focusing on the boy more often. I was trying to understand how the boy viewed the world. A world he never knew. And it seemed like he had to grow up trying to imagine these things to go another day without thinking of death. However I've noticed that the boy isn't really afraid of death. I mean yes he has cried and he's afraid of pulling the trigger on himself but I feel like he's prepared for it. When the father asked the son what had happened to the flute he had made him, the son said he had thrown it away. To me, I see the flute as his way of letting go of the present and accepting what may happen to him during that moment. I don't know about anybody else reading this, but I honestly don't think the boy shares his father's view on survival, they are so opposite. It's heartbreaking to say this but the boy reminds me of his mother. However I understand why it would be so difficult for them to have a connection with both growing up in completely different worlds. This could be another adversity they have to overcome, differences.
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Yoaly, I hadn't thought about the flute as a symbol but now that you mention it I understand where you are coming from. The son seems to understand the life that they live and I understand when you point out that he has understood he life that he has had a grow up in.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good point Kingsly. Now that I think about it I understand what you mean. Although sometimes the boy doesn't believe his father, he wants to trust him because he feels safe with him rather than being alone.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I'm not reading the book, I can agree with you both, Kingsly and Yoaly. Quite often children will believe in whatever seems to have the happy ending. Whether they agree with it or not, I believe that children will go with what the parents say because it seem more reassuring.
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