The Road Novel Study Answers

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Novel Study - The Road STUDY GUIDE After you read each chapter, you must complete the questions INDIVIDUALLY in full sentences with specific reference to the text, unless the question asks otherwise. TWO questions in each section may be completed using a sketch, clipart, magazine clipping, photo collage, or small artifact. You will be expected to hand this work in, so it is your responsibility to keep up with the work under the guidance of the educator. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Section 1 - pages 1-7 Vocabulary: glaucoma, flowstone, pilgrims, flues, translucent, alabaster, decanting, dregs 1) This novel is classified as part of the post-apocalyptic genre.…show more content…
How do you know? Provide examples from the text to suggest his age. 3) What do they do at the waterfall? Do you think this is a wise or foolish act? Why? 4) Explain the purpose of the father"s flashbacks. Why do they happen so frequently? 5) Why doesn"t the man know what happened to the states? 6) Compare the benefits and disadvantages to traveling with a grocery cart in a post-apocalyptic landscape. Why are they using it? 7) What was in the jack-knifed truck? Why do you suppose this was the cargo? Section 5 - pages 49-60 Vocabulary: skeins, coagulate, provenance, penitent, cheroot, obsidian, meconium 1) What do the boy and the man decide to do when they first see the other man on the road? Why? 2) Why did the boy want to help the burned man? Why didn’t the father offer help? 3) Explain the significance of the wallet, and what the man does with it. 4) Why does the man allow his son to hope and have fantasies about life in the south? 5) No names are given for any of the characters. Suggest reasons why McCarthy made this choice for the story. 6) Describe the argument that the man had had with his wife - explain the differences in their points of view on whether to live or choose to

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