Tragedy has finally caught up with our characters and it was brutal. A couple ambushed our main characters, they stabled the boy's father. He survived days later but slowly died from illness and the wound. The boy soon moved in with another family. A theme that reflects the book with real life, is homelessness. The man and son are always on the run and were always scavenging for food throughout the book. Just like in real life we witness homeless people always on the move, I thought the book was realistic, of course the son and the man weren't going to keep running for the rest of their lives. I would recommend this book with someone that enjoys books. This book was very hard to follow, without names and quotation marks while talking was even hard for me to follow. Also they need tough skin because this book will rip you to shreds. But overall it was good. I will comment on Colin V's and Jeremy O's Book Blog
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Since the last blog post, not much has happened. We have this cycle of the father and son running into trouble and hiding in the woods then walking on the open road. A constant cycle of that. We were introduced to another character, he gave himself the name, Ely, a strange almost blind old man they come across. He seems confused and lost, seems like he has been walking forever. But soon Ely and our main charterers depart the next morning. Our characters are still heading south, the father estimated two to three more weeks of walking to make their location. This book somewhat reminds me of a recent horror movie that came out called ¨ A Quiet Place. " The movie centers around a family living in a world where these monsters hunt by sound. The family isn't allowed to make any noise and communicate through sign language. Any noise sets off these hideous beasts into killing anything in their path.Because of this, the movie is mostly silent and nerve wrecking. They show no signs of weakness, so the remaining people in this world remain silent, living normally. They have a connection of eeriness these both have. Also they represent dystopias that seem terrible to live in. Just like last time they are not similarities at all, except they live on earth and they are traveling through the U.S. A regular life of a US citizen is going to a 9-5 job and coming home to a small house/apartment but with The Road. Our characters live polar opposites. Our main charterers sleep in the woods and face danger left to right, stealing food whenever they can. I will comment on Colin's Book Blog and Rickie's Book Blog The book I'm reading for the dystopian project, is The Road. The story revolves around a duo, a father and a son. We don't know their names or ages. I believe the son is about seven to eight years old. This book takes place in the United States of America, it doesn't say exactly where because the states don't exist anymore. I can only make a guess it's near the east coast. What makes this story dystopian is that there is an apocalypse happening and the father and son are doing everything to survive. The plot (so far) is the duo are trying to reach the south before winter. They hit multiple dilemmas and heartache. The duo keep discussing these people in high power but they don't use names, they call them "They". I'm not sure if "they" caused the apocalypse or they rised to power during the apocalypse but it seems that the father is scared of 'they'. I don't want to give away major spoilers to those reading or planning to read the book but it gets depressing, really depressing. I have read some dystopian books before but those that were written more recently, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins or Divergent by Veronica Roth. Similarities I see is that I wouldn't like to live in any of their worlds, most are terrifying. (Divergant isn't scary but a bit insane) But I feel the dystopian books that were written in 1900's and early 2000's have no mercy compared to the books now. Take example, in The Hunger Games, Katniss is stuck in a love triangle oh nooooo who will she choose?? But in The Road or 1984, the books are just pure madness and chaos, it's hard to find that silver lining within these books. The similarities of this world and our book that I can only really think of it's that it takes place on earth. I hope that we won't enter an an apocalyptic war soon. I am commenting on Jeremy Ong's and Colin Vail's and Rickie Sparks Book Blogs |