The Road: Setting by Elizabeth McBroom https://padlet.com/emcbroom1/sxkys72mr5ul Find textual evidence to support the setting. en-us 2019-02-12 15:32:43 UTC 2019-02-15 17:03:10 UTC hello@padlet.com Ella, Caro, Khanh & Ramon ezmassaquoi19 https://padlet.com/emcbroom1/sxkys72mr5ul/wish/330386238 Setting-
THE ROAD
post-apocalyptic world
"after nuclear holocaust has wiped out nearly all the inhabitants on the earth" (enotes.com)

How setting affects characters:
"When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him,"(3). 
- The child is the man's most important thing he thinks of even in this depressing and desolate world.

"There was nothing. The wind rustling the dead roadside bracken. A distant creaking. Door or shutter. I think we should take a look. . Papa let's not go up there. It's okay. I don't think we should go up there. It's okay. We have to take a look"(106-107).
- Houses no longer represent familiar safe places. They do not have the connotation of "home sweet home". When the man and child find a house, they are scared to go in because they never know what they might find and whatever it is will be bad. ]]> 2019-02-12 15:39:02 UTC https://padlet.com/emcbroom1/sxkys72mr5ul/wish/330386238 Sweeney, Simmons rnsweeney19 https://padlet.com/emcbroom1/sxkys72mr5ul/wish/330386517 Setting: Winter

The most dangerous thing in the novel is the cold, it is most likely to kill the man and the boy, more than the bad guys. 

"after a while they slept again for all the bitter cold," (98).

"Thery were moving south. There'd be no surviving another winter here," (4).

Nature is life's biggest danger, more dangerous then humanity.

"the cold crept down and the dark came early," (181).
"lay shivering and exhausted on the cold groud and slept till day. When he woke he was sick," (186).

"the bleak sea washed up at their feet. Cold. Desolate. Birdless," (215).

"Now call down your dark and your cold and be damned," (19).]]> 2019-02-12 15:39:30 UTC https://padlet.com/emcbroom1/sxkys72mr5ul/wish/330386517 Josh, Alexis, Bhavin, Tyler abnicolas19 https://padlet.com/emcbroom1/sxkys72mr5ul/wish/330387323 The Mountains
"He said that everything depended on reaching the coast, yet waking in the night he knew hat all of this was empty and no substance to it. There was a good chance they would die in the mountains and that would be that" (29).

The Coast
The coast was the goal that they had set their eyes upon from the beginning of the novel. It represented their dreams and the new future, and if they could reach the coast, they could do just about anything. However, when they arrived at the ocean, they were “disappointed to find only a vat of slag and the gray squall line of ash”(112). In a way, this symbolizes how one could reach a goal but only to find out that there was no point to it. 

The Bunker
"The richness of a vanished world. Why is it here? Is it real?" (139).

"The man thought that he had probably not fully committed himself to any of this. You could wake in the dark wet woods at any time" (141).

The Field
"Huddled against the backwall were naked people, male and female, all trying to hide, shielding their faces with their hands [...] Coming across the field toward the house were four bearded men and two women" (110-111)
]]> 2019-02-12 15:40:46 UTC https://padlet.com/emcbroom1/sxkys72mr5ul/wish/330387323 Paityn, Jasmin, Nathen pledwards19 https://padlet.com/emcbroom1/sxkys72mr5ul/wish/330389855 The shelter- 137-156
-  "Crates upon crate of canned goods. Tomatoes, peaches, beans, apricots. Canned hams. Corned beef. Hundreds of gallons of water in ten gallon plastic jerry jugs... It's all right" (138). Right before they find the shelter the man believed they had 10 days to live. 
-"The richness of a vanished world" (139). The quote shows how the shelter takes them to the past in a way because it resembles a time when food is plentiful.

]]> 2019-02-12 15:44:30 UTC https://padlet.com/emcbroom1/sxkys72mr5ul/wish/330389855 Ryan, Leticia, Simon https://padlet.com/emcbroom1/sxkys72mr5ul/wish/330395695 travel along a road in east US, along the Appalachian Mountains around New York final destination is the ocean, which represents salvation and hope

On their way to the ocean they find a train. The father was more excited for it than the child which shows how he did not care about old things]]> 2019-02-12 15:53:14 UTC https://padlet.com/emcbroom1/sxkys72mr5ul/wish/330395695 Bri and Ryann krguthrie19 https://padlet.com/emcbroom1/sxkys72mr5ul/wish/330413927 The Man´s childhood home: 
¨All much as he´d remembered it. The rooms empty. In the small room off the dining room there was a bare iron cot, a metal folding table. The same cast-iron coal grate in the small fireplace. The pine paneling was gone from the walls leaving just the furring strips. He stood there. he felt with his thumb in the painted wood of the mantle the pinholes from tacks that had held stockings forty years ago¨ (26) 

This house shows how much the world has changed and it also shows how differently the boy and the man see things. Also, it shows that the Man and the Boy have to leave the past behind them if they want to survive. ]]> 2019-02-12 16:23:44 UTC https://padlet.com/emcbroom1/sxkys72mr5ul/wish/330413927 Stormie, Andrew, Elizabeth, Clemencia, Isaiah. sbreitsma19 https://padlet.com/emcbroom1/sxkys72mr5ul/wish/330415038 The Road
- The road is important to the novel because it is a constant factor. The novel tells us that it is set in a time where the world has been previously destroyed. Whats interesting about this is that since the world has been destroyed of everything, one of the most prominent things that remains is the road. The road is symbolic in the sense that as long as the road is present then there will always be some sort of hope for the man and the boy to make it to the end of their journey, in which they do. As much as the road serves as hope to them and and the boy, the road also serves as danger because when the boy and the man are on the road they attract danger from other survivors. So the road symbolizes two contrasting ideas, hope and danger. 

The Waterfall/River
- The waterfall/river is also important to the novel because it is also one remaining factor from the destruction of the world. Since it has
]]> 2019-02-12 16:25:24 UTC https://padlet.com/emcbroom1/sxkys72mr5ul/wish/330415038 The Road Setting: By Birdie, Carlos, Andy, and Ricky richardking0929 https://padlet.com/emcbroom1/sxkys72mr5ul/wish/330416985 The 18 Wheeler: The big truck provides a respite from the environment that The Man and The Boy are in. The Truck has a mattress a swell as some magazines from time long forgotten. However, The Man is worried about staying too long and observing his surroundings he tells the boy "We're not the first ones here." (46)]]> 2019-02-12 16:28:27 UTC https://padlet.com/emcbroom1/sxkys72mr5ul/wish/330416985 Ceejay, Evan, Louana, Kishan ecgoodmanblue19 https://padlet.com/emcbroom1/sxkys72mr5ul/wish/330418378 The Man's Childhood Home
"The peeling wooden clapboards were largely gone from the lower walls for firewood leaving the studs and the insulation exposed. The rotted screening from the back porch lay on the concrete terrace" (25)
The Road
"He was as burnt-looking as the country, his clothing scorched and black" (49)

"Boxes and bags. Everything melted and black. Old plastic suitcases curled shapeless in the heat" (190)
The Bunker
"He looked at the boy. The boy looked drugged." (145)

"I think there may be things in there and we have to take a look. There's no place else to go." (137)]]> 2019-02-12 16:30:40 UTC https://padlet.com/emcbroom1/sxkys72mr5ul/wish/330418378 I'mani a.k.a Mani Mon, Destiny a.k.a PAT PAT & Damaria a.ka. Mar Mar icpollard19 https://padlet.com/emcbroom1/sxkys72mr5ul/wish/330421921 Setting: The Trailer
"The trailer smelled of wet plywood and that sour smell he'd come to know... He wafted away the smoke and looked down into the trailer. The small fire burning in the floor seemed a long way down. He shielded the glare of it with his hand and when he did he could see almost to the rear of the box. Human bodies. Sprawled in every attitude. Dried and shrunken in their rotted clothes" (47).
The trailer develops an emotional affect on the boy and man during their journey. The trailer gives the man and boy a new perspective of life from the dead bodies reflecting the lives of other travelers who did not survive from the complications of facing bad guys and nature while traveling, which is the same situation the man and boy face within their journey.



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