The Road The End

Lately, I have enjoyed the book and it has the appropriate amount of twists and turns which are good for captivating a reader like me who usually isnt interested in reading anything at all. But the ending in my opinion was kind of cheesy. Even though the part where he got shot with an arrow and all the other parts where he is encountered by strangers where he is forced to show his gun are cool and all. I just think the ending of the story where the father dies and minutes later help arrives to save the what would have been helpless boy. It seems a bit too cliché. Also I don't think the boy was as ready as the father said he was. That boy would have been doomed al by himself. Like he gets scared of everything and he would never take any risks to find food. By the way they were almost out of food and he would ahve starved to death in a couple of days anyway. It's just too convineant that the only good person they have encountered so far was when they needed them the most. And now the boy is saved and everything just ends happily after a very depressing book. Thats how I liked the book and now I hope my outside reading book will be just as captivating.

The Road # 5

Ok, well so far I am very pleased with the book because it is very captivating because of all the twists in the text as well as jumps in emotion such as when they walk in on the prisoners being held until they are eventually eaten which was shocking. To the moment when he walks over the hatch to the bomb shelter with all the food and water and essentials which was very uplifting to me. Events like this keep a reader like me and I don't know about anyone else, but it keeps me interested. But, moments like the father shooting the trucker in the head to save his son even though I thought it was cool and all, I found it a bit unnessecary, I don't think the trucker would have even noticed them hiding in the brush, they should have just lied still instead of overreacting. Lastly, I find it very annoying that the boy is scared of everything, for example, he was afraid of going into the dad's old house, he was afraid of going in the mansion and lastly which is the dumbest of them all was when he was afraid of going down into the bomb shelter even though clearly nothing bad was going to happen. Also, It's getting kind of annoying when the boy always asks for confirmation on something over and over again until the point where you just want to hit him. In conclusion, that's what I think so far.

The Road Soundtrack

I think that the song "Lean on Me" by Bill Withers would be a great addition to The Road Soundtrack because it is sad and depressing and is talking about similar occurences in the lyrics that are also in the book. Such as when in the song says "Lean on me, when you're not strong And I'll be your friend I'll help you carry on For it won't be long 'Til I'm gonna need Somebody to lean on" Which could go well with the quote in the book when it says "Papa? the boy said. Papa? Shh. It's okay...the boy clung to him crying, buried against his chest. Shh. It's all right" (27-28). The quote and the lyrics are very similar in meaning because they are both talking about someone needing comfort from another and the other provides it. When the song says lean on me it is almost exactly the same as the boy being buried in the dad's chest. In conclusion, this song will go great with this quote and the book because they are both depressing and talking of the same thing. Here's the link to the youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ovDAF-VTPg .

The Road and Outside Reading Book

Well so far I like the road because it has great emotion and is a story that I think will turn out to be very catchy which will help me to focus on the book. This book so far is also very appealing to me because it is talking about the end of the world and survival instead of something else that i wuldn't care about. I have not officially decided on an outside reading book, but it is most likely between the boys of winter, the demon in the freezer, and life as we knew it. All of these books are options because in seventh grade science and two of those books i wanted to read but was not given that ca=hance and had to read something else and I had hoped I could return to those books someday. The book I had to read instead was Angels in Demons by Dan Brown. Even though this book helped me decide to read davincii code for my first quarter outside reading book, I still would have liked to read The demon in the freezer or life as we knew it. And lastly, the boys of Winter was on my maybe list a couple years ago to read because a friend told me to read it, I just have never gotten around to it yet. I thought now might be a good time. In conclusion those are my book choices, and The Road, I think is a great book and I hope it stays that way.