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here are the questions
1) Describe one encounter the father and the boy have with another human being or group of human beings in pgs. 51-100 of “The Road.”
2) “The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the names of things one believed to be true…The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality.” What is McCarthy describing here? Why are names declining into oblivion? Do things lose their reality when they lose their name?
3) At one point, the father kicks some holes in sand so that the boy’s body can rest comfortably there. McCarthy writes, “All of this like some ancient anointing…Evoke the forms. Where you’ve nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.” What is the father thinking here? Why does he feel he has to construct new ceremonies “out of the air”?
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