While reading this section of The Road, I couldn't stop thinking about that bunker they had found, the solution to all their problems. In that bunker, they had a warm place to sleep, bathe, eat, and a large supply of food that could have lasted them quite some time. And yet, they chose to leave and walk along the road in the freezing cold, sleeping out in the woods, just wondering when they're going to meet the "bad guys" and die. I mean, isn't their ultimate goal to survive for as long as they can?
There was another part that really caught my attention in this section. As they continue their journey on the road, the father and his son come across a multitude of dead bodies just lying there in horrid condition and the boy was not phased in anyway. So then I started thinking about our topic of adversity, and I realized that maybe all of this isn't that hard for the boy considering he has grown up with it and it's kind of just what he has always done and seen. Once you grow up with something, it just seems normal and you don't see the real adversity in your situation, but like for us, it seems so horrific and terrifying.
Chattahoochee River
Sunday, March 22, 2015
The Road - Section 3
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Mikaela, I thought your description of the pairs decision to leave the cabin and simply prepare for their imminent death was quite interesting because I observed a similar scenario in my book, The Life of Pi, in which Pi was confronted with the reality of his oncoming death, yet his reaction was starkly different from that of your main characters. After surviving a shipwreck and learning that a tiger was his lifeboat mate, Pi accepted the fact that eventually, he would die. As he accepted death, he gained a sense of airiness and began searching for water on the lifeboat which he was confined to because in his mind, he believed that if the tiger who was also on the boat was going to kill him eventually, he need not worry about when he'd die.
ReplyDeleteI just think that the contrast of reactions between our characters illuminating because it demonstrates how differently people can react to adversity. As trying as our situations may be, our responses to those situations ultimately makes all the difference.