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My Signature Passage

• The Road: "In the dream from which he'd wakened he had wandered in a cave where the child led him by the hand. Their light playing over the wet flow stone walls. Like pilgrims in a fable swallowed up and lost among the inward parts of some granitic beast."
• In this scene in The Road, one of the man's dreams is described in detail. This shows his discourage, hardships, and inner thoughts of the world he's living in. I see this dream as depressing and morbid, it is almost saying that the father and son are the only good people left in a swarm of evil in their world.
• In The Grace of Silence, in many scenes you can see a direct relationship to this quote. Throughout the novel she questions the goodness of people throughout society, which is exactly what this dream relates to.
• This passage and book relates to the other books we've read this semester because of the issue and question between the bad and good people and actions in our world. Whether it's evil actions and isolation, racism, religious discrimination, or concentration camps, all books we've read this semester relate to ones goodness.
•  I will memorize the sentence "Like pilgrims in a fable swallowed up and lost among the inward parts of some granitic beast." I believe it is the most important and moving section of the passage.

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I really enjoyed this book and how it differed from other books themes and motifs that we've read this year so far. I thought it was nice to read a novel about something differing from racism, and for me it was a page turner to see the father and son's journey. I thought the book was dark, but not too dark in an inappropriate way. I thought it made sense for it to be depressing, because that was the author's mindset when writing the novel, thinking that the father and son went through a depressing journey. I wonder what truly caused the father and son to lived in a burnt society with everything ruined in the first place. All in all I enjoyed this novel because I think it expanded my knowledge of reading a writing in a good way, and I also thought it was nice to see the movie. The movie helped put a more clear picture in my mind while reading which was nice, and I could also compare and contrast the book and movie of The Road. I think the pacing of reading assignments was pretty quick to read 150 pages over break, but it was still enjoyable. I wonder what the boy's life is like once his father dies and he is adopted into a new family and if he survives very long. He must be a very strong child to not breakdown in all the traumatic events he encounters and his mother and father's death. I can't imagine having a gun in mouth and almost shot, or having my father teach me how to commit suicide like the boy's father did.