the road test

Aleman Alemam

Directions: Save this file in your folder. Type your name at the top left of this document. Type the answers beneath each question. Print this out and hand it to me when you are finished.

The Road

PART A: Explicate the following two passages. You may use your notebook to assist you.
1) The first page of The Road (the paragraph ends at the top of pg. 4). It begins: “When he woke in the woods in the dark…” You may answer this question knowing what you do about the book as a whole. (10pts)

In this scene it seems like character is just explaining a whole a lot about the scenery and like trying to get us to have a feel for this book. Basically the main character has just woken up in the middle of the woods on a cold dark night. The authors attitude toward the subject is simple. He’s mood is just trying to make us feel what the character is feeling. The literary techniques are pretty much metaphors.


2) The last paragraph of The Road (pg. 286-87). The paragraph begins: “Once there were brook trout in the stream…” (5 pts)
I really don’t understand this paragraph no matter


PART B: Answer the following questions as logically as possible. Be sure to explain your answers in short paragraphs. (5 pts each)

3) What do you suppose the man did as a job in his former life? Explain.

The man I believe had to be either a firefighter a cop or a veteran the war. I believe the man was some sort of a fire fighter because he has the bad cough which means he had to have dealt with something that degree of work.. And also believe he was a cop because the way he had that great shot to the head of that one cannibal. But I also do believe he was veteran because he like knows the stuff he needs to survive and he could read a map pretty good and had knowledge about where they rested and stuff.
4) Are the man and boy heroes? Why or why not?
Well

I believe the man and the boy were heroes to some extent even though they didn’t really like help the people that were stuck in the basement about to get eaten. But they also did help the old man that was blind they gave him some food. The boy is more of a hero then the man because he wanted to help everyone he saw but helping could have killed him.
5) What will happen to the boy and his new family? Explain your answer.
I believe in the future the boy will be raised and thought very well with his new family. They seem like nice and respectable people because the mother and father have children and they have to teach the children how to live and respect others and they will just take him as one of they’re own.

PART C: Go to my blog and respond to the post titled “The Road –Reflection”. Do NOT type the answer here. If you do, you will lose 5 points from the test.

Outside Reading Book

I still havent decided what book i should read yet its really between three very stunning books. The first book is this book that i found in your class (burgess guys and lit) which i think is called sohpmore year. This book pretty much explains its self. Ive read only a couple pages but it sucked me in. The author in this book is sorta like a kid. He uses vocabulary that you could understan and easy to follow. The second book is the autobiography of malcom X. This book is such an inspration for me because malcom a hellbent kid somewhat like me he also was a muslim which is a very amazing thing to see someone who believes what you believe in do so much for america and other black muslims. The third book im deciding on reading is The seires of unfortuant events. I know ive already explained about this seires in my other blog. These books are all really brilliant books and i probibly will end up recomending this book to alot of different people.

Outside Reading Book

Well i havent selected a outside reading book yet but i have a lot of books in mind like for example the autobiography of malcom X. Even though a read a little bit of it i want to read about it more like pretty much digest it. Even though its a very wonderful peice of writting i want more interesting stuff like and action book or something. I think i might just end up reading the series of unfortunate events book eight by lemony snicket since i have it and read a little. im on the eight book. so to basicly sum up what happend the events leading to this point. There were three three kids they were kin violet the oldest sister calus the second oldest son and sunny the youngest sister. So basicly theyre parents died a tragic fire and they were sent to theyre other legal gardiuan count olaf. olaf is after theyre money that theyre parents left for the kids. So after the kids were living with olaf he tried to kill them so they moved away and he followed them to the next house and the next he did it for seven houses. im early in the book so i would bet he will appear sometime in the book. Its so interesting the way lemony chooses to write he's books its mysterious and scary but its also enlightening. He adds speacial talents to the kids. Like violet is an inventor, claus has knowledge about most things they come across and sunny has the ablity to use her teeth bite hard things. So i believe the series of unfortuante events is the book im probibly going to read for this quater.

The Road

The road is a very interesting book so far, It is a big page turner. It's a page turner because its so mysterious I mean anything can happen. I like how this story is about a father and his son, but i dislike how the son is young because then his father has to do all the work and the father has no one to relate to or like to talk to closely. The son in this book is curious. The weird thing about the very book is the author uses words repeatably like the son will say "okay" to everything. The author makes this book very simple and very interesting. I believe everyone should read this but I mostly recommend this book to all my guy friends. The reason I recommend this book to all my guy friends is because its about two guys that need survival and I bet that it will get gory once they're desperate for food or someone unfriendly comes across them. in the long run it will suck for the boy because he's dad will pass away and then he wont have someone to talk to or he could pass away and his dad will have no one to keep him comany. So i'll just have to stand by and see what events happen next.