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"Crouching there pale and naked and translucent, its alabaster bones cast up in the shadow on the rocks behind it. Its bowels, its beating heart. The brain that pulsed in a dull glass bell."
I like how the author describes the creature. (How he uses short sentences to add more feeling.)

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"He thought the month was October but he wasn't sure. He hadn't kept a calendar in years."
I think we can all relate to this quote because of our own pandemic we have been going through. It feels as if the months have just been cruising by and I frequently forget what day it is.

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"then gave out a low moan and turned and lurched away and loped soundlessly into the dark." Just like the man, I relate to seeing this creature because of my depression. It can harm me if I let it out. I want to kep the world and pople around me happy so I tuck it away.

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"Crouching there pale and naked and translucent, its alabaster bones cast up in shadow on the rocks behind it. Its bowels, its beating heart. The brain that pulsed in a dull glass bell." I love the descriptive words the author chooses when describing the creature.

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“The brain that pulsed in a dull glass bell” (referring to the creature in the dream)

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"Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before." The night is described so well that you can imagine how black it really is outside.

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"With the first gray light he rose and left the boy sleeping and walked out to the road and squatted and studied the country to the south."

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"..the water dripped and sang."

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"stared into the light with eyes dead white and sightless" reminds me of bird box

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At least he is a father who would do anything to protect his child from dangerous even though the father is in pain but doesn't show it to his son instead he remains strong for his son through out the whole story!

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"a creature that raised its dripping mouth from the rimstone pool" the creature could be representing the cannibals

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"The soft ash blowing in loose swirls over the blacktop." All the descriptive words allow the reader to paint a picture of the scene in their head.

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'"eyes dead white and sightless as the eggs of spiders."

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Multiple descriptions of this post apocalyptic world from what was in the excerpt (the darkness, cold, “shuffling through the ash”, and the dangerous people) to what we were told by mrs sellers reminds me exactly of the world in season 8 of American Horror Story “Apocalypse”, which is set in the aftermath of global nuclear attacks

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" with the first gray light he rose and left the boy sleeping and walked out to the road and squatted and studied the country to the south... he was determined that he will get his son right and taken care of before anything happens it made him even worked harder even though he was still worrying trying to figure out how to get out safety

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I wonder if these dreams that the father is having is foreshadowing something that will happen in the future

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He lowered the glasses and pulled down the cotton mask from his face and wiped his nose on the back of his wrist

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"Clamped to the handle of the cart was a chrome motorcycle mirror that he used to watch the road behind them." This shows that he is paranoid by his surroundings and i'm the same way when I'm in public and I always try to watch who's around me to make sure I don't get snatched up.

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"In the dream from which he'd wakened he had wandered in a cave where the child led him by the hand." I feel like the son leading his father by his hand in the dream symbolizes that the son is the only hope that the father has. I think the father is only still trying to survive for his son.

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"Like pilgrims in a fable swallowed up and lost among the inward parts of some granitic beast."

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"looked towards the east for any light but there was none" This shows how empty and desolate the world was, but it also could mean how the man and boy are trying to find a safe spot, but they cant find one.

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Annotation- looking for a sense of light

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Annotation- looking for a sense of light

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"He looked toward the east for any light but there was none."- The man is looking for a sense of hope and a 'light' in the dark world they live in

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When the father says “I’m here” and the son says “I know” these lines are end stopped. the isolation of the words shows that it is dialogue

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"Deep stone flues where the water dripped and sang." The way the author describes this is not as depressing.

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"Tolling in the silence the minutes of the earth and the hours and the days of it and the years without cease." Cormac McCarthy used polysyndeton when writing this sentence to make it feel like so much time is passing by when they are sitting in silence.

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Crouching there pale and naked and translucent

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"In case they had to abandon the cart and make a run for it."
-always have to be ready to go

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the monster symbolizes the society in the book, everyone is stuck and can't figure out how to find a solution to the uncivilization of society

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The creature in the fathers dream is a symbol for the state that the book’s society is in. The creature is blind (the people can’t see a way to solve their problems), pale (from being in the dark for so long), and soundless (like the father and son are to not alert dangerous people of their presence)

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The author tells us that the man hasn't kept a calendar in years. How long have they been living in a deserted wasteland?

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he came back to rest but ended up taking good protection over the boys while he was sleep to make sure nothing wll happen to the young boy

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The tone and mood set for the story is more like sad and gloomy.

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" His hand rose and fell softly with each precious breath"

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"Crouching there pale and naked and translucent..."

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"Barren, Silent, godless" The author uses asyndeton to show the reader how much emphasis is put on those 3 words.

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"When it was light enough to use the binoculars he glassed the valley below. Everything paling away into the murk. The soft ash blowing in loose swirls over the blacktop."  This makes me think of the wildfires on the west coast right now. The way he describes that everything is covered in ash reminds me of the pictures i see of the fires.

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"...pulled down the cotton mask from his face."

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"He woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night."

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this simile “ Like pilgrims in a fable swallowed up and lost among the inward parts of some granitic beast” is used to show the darkness and loneliness of the cave

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"Then he opened his eyes. Hi, Papa, he said. I'm right here. I know." The child seems to be uncaring and in his own world and the dad is aware of their situation and trying to keep his son safe

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"Their light playing over the wet flowstone walls"

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"Stone flues where the water dripped and sang"

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Polysyndeton, multiple uses pf the conjunction "and". pg.3 lines 1-3

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What does the father and son deem essential when packing their knapsacks?

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The fathers dream could symbolize that the father is put in more danger because of his son based on how the son led him to the cave by hand in his dream.

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"Hi papa. I'm right here. I know." I like this quote because it shows the relationship between the boy and the father. The father is more protective of the son where as the son is not as concerned. I feel like in this case though, the son is showing more strength then the father.