Dear Cynthia and Alexia,
As you may know the mother leaves the son and the father. She states that she can no longer live that way. Do you agree with this decision? Would you have done the same thing? I think that if the mother would have been there with them things would have been a tad bit different. Maybe it would have been harder because then they would need more food to gather and more blankets to cover each other with. But I also think that maybe the sanity between them would have been there. The conversations that the boy has with his father are the shortest weirdest conversations. They don’t talk how we would with our parents nowadays. The way they talk is usually with just two words. The conversations they have makes the tone in the book to be more depressing. But even though they have little or no conversations at all you can tell that the father loves his son. As I was reading Alexia’s comment she states that the father saves his son his favorite food just for him. I thought that was sweet. Also when the father only has one bullet left and they are running away from the bad people, if you read carefully you can see just how much the father really loves his son. The father tells the boy to take the gun and if he doesn’t come back then to put it in his mouth and point up. It was obvious what he was telling him, he was saying to kill himself so that the bad people wouldn’t get him and eat him. I guess it’s true what they say, actions do speak louder than words.
(I’m done with book)
Sincerely ,
As you may know the mother leaves the son and the father. She states that she can no longer live that way. Do you agree with this decision? Would you have done the same thing? I think that if the mother would have been there with them things would have been a tad bit different. Maybe it would have been harder because then they would need more food to gather and more blankets to cover each other with. But I also think that maybe the sanity between them would have been there. The conversations that the boy has with his father are the shortest weirdest conversations. They don’t talk how we would with our parents nowadays. The way they talk is usually with just two words. The conversations they have makes the tone in the book to be more depressing. But even though they have little or no conversations at all you can tell that the father loves his son. As I was reading Alexia’s comment she states that the father saves his son his favorite food just for him. I thought that was sweet. Also when the father only has one bullet left and they are running away from the bad people, if you read carefully you can see just how much the father really loves his son. The father tells the boy to take the gun and if he doesn’t come back then to put it in his mouth and point up. It was obvious what he was telling him, he was saying to kill himself so that the bad people wouldn’t get him and eat him. I guess it’s true what they say, actions do speak louder than words.
(I’m done with book)
Sincerely ,
Ana Hernandez
