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The Man and the Creature
The man has a dream that he and the boy enter a cave and there is translucent creature looking at them. The man wakes up when the creature looks at him. I think this is foreshadowing that very terrible and scary things will happen through out the book. I also think it shows that the worst has yet to come. -
The Man's Flashback to his Childhood
In this memory the man desrcibes himself and his uncle gathering wood from a lake. Right before this flashbach the man tells the boy you remember what you wnat to forget and forget what you want to remember. I think that this memory is something that the man wants to forget because he knows life will never be llike that again. (page 12) -
The Man's Dream about his Bride
In the man's dream he describes his wife. This si the first time the reader is introduced to the topic of his former life/wife. This is important because up to this point we knew nothing about his wife or what happened to her. (page 18) -
The Man's Childhood Home
While in the house, there is a clue to about how old the man is. It says he felt the pinholes on the mantle where stockings were hung 40 years ago. You also learned he had sisters. You learn the man had a good childhood and you can tell that the man is sad to see childhood home in such a terrible state. -
Fire in the Distance
page 48 The fire is significant because it shows that people are out there, whether these people are good or bad is unknown. -
Lightning Man
page 49 The man and the boy come along a man that has been strucj by lightning. The man knows that there is nothing they can do to help. The boy is very distraught and insists that they could have helped him in someway; however, they leave the man sitting by the side of teh road. -
Flashback to Man's Wife
page 58 In this section of the book the reader finds out how the wife dies. Tha flashbacks explains how she wants to die, "As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart" (McCarthy 57) The woman says that the man won't survive for himself, meaning that the boy is the only reason the man will not kill himself. The wife ultimatly cuts her wrists. -
The Truck People / Shot Man
page 63 The man and the boy see a truck with people and the man suspects they are bad guys. While the man and the boy are hiding a man from thee truck walks over. He sees the boy and the man and says that they should come with him. The truck man grabs at the boy and the father shots the man in the head. One bullet left. -
Boy sees another Boy and a Dog
page 85 The boy and the man are rummaging through a house and the boy sees another little boy. He chases after him but never finds him. The father says they cannot look for the boy and says he is with another group of people. The boy is worried about the other little boy. The man nevers sees the other little boy, so the reader is left with some uncertainty if the boy was real or not. The man and the boy also see a dog, and the boy asks his father if they would eat it and the man says no. -
The Army with Prisoners
page 91 They see a pretty large convoy of people. People are chained together and pulling carts like oxen. It is a very sad sight and the reader knows that thess prisoners are most likely going to be eaten. -
The House containing Prisoners
page 110 The next day the boy and the man fiind the house where all the prisoners are being kept. They are naked and locked in a cellar. One man has his legs cut off and the stumps cauterized. The man and the boy flee the house when they hear people coming. The boys is very upset that they didn't help the people in the celllar. -
The Barn
page 112 When death seems inevitable the man and the boy stumble across an old barn. They seem to find every thing they need and the barn/orchard function like a garden of eden. They find dried apples, grape power to flavor water, and fresh water. -
The Bunker
page 137. The man in the boy find a buner by the house and barn. It has every thing they could possibly need. Food, water, fire, beds, blankets, toothbrushes, razors, etc. The man says they cannot stay to long because it is not safe, but they were the first to find the bunker so doesn't that mean it was well hidden? -
Bathes
page 147. During their stay at the bunker they are able to take warm bathes. The first warm bathes they have probably taken in years. They also cut their hair and the man shaves his beard. The boy says "Warm at last." -
The Old Man
page 162. The man and the boy stumble across Ely. Ely is blind or pretty close to being blind. He says he survives off of what people give him. They boy insists that they give him food and water. When the man asks if he is going to thank the boy, he says no. Ely says that he wouldn't have given them food. Ely also brings up the topics of God and says he doesn't exist. -
Man gets Sick
page 186. The man has been sick with a terrible cough, but he comes down with a fever. This could have been the point in the book where the man dies, but McCarthy chooses to have the boy nurse the father back to health, this is foreshadowing the father will be of importance later. -
The Baby
page 198 The man and the boy see two men and a very pregant woman walking down the road. They next day they see them around a little campsite They can smell something cooking but they are not sure what it is. When they get closer, the two men and the woman disappear and the man is worried that they saw them. The man sees that a baby is roasting over the fire and he tells the boy he is very sorry that he saw that. -
The House
page 206 They spend four days in the house eating and sleeping. This is not a really important point in the book, but it allows them to gain a little strength. Almost anytime they find food and a dry place to sleep is important. -
The Beach
page 215 They finally make it to the beach only to find it, "Cold. Desolate. Birdless" (McCarthy 215). The boy goes swimming even though the water is cold. This event is very depressing because the boy and the man hoped that the beach would be better, but it isn't. This was their last hope, their only choice now is to continue down the coastline, -
The Man and his Wife
page 219 The man has a flashback to himself and his wife on the beach. He remembers how perfect and peaceful it was."If he were God he would have made the world just so and no different" (McCarthy 219). This just makes reality harsher for the man. -
The Boat
page 221 They find a beached boat and find a flare gun, a first aid kit, rubber boots, a jacket, and some tools along with some food and other supplies. The food's saftey is questionable, but the man and the boy eat it anyway. Later, the man shoots the flare off like a firework to show the boy. -
Sick Boy
page 247 The boy is very sick with a high fever for multiple days. The reader is faced with the fact that it is possibly that the boy will die. Fortunalty, the boy's fever breaks and all he can remember is having really weird dreams and being very thirsty. -
The Thief
page 255 After a day of beachcombing, the man and the boy return to camp to find that everything had been taken. The boy and the man catch up to the thief and the boy asks if they are going to kill the thief. The man says he doesn't know. When the man confronts the thief he makes him strip completley. "I'm going to leave you the way you left us" (McCarthy 257). The boy knows that by doing this they are killing the thief The boy makes the man put the thief's clothes in the road. -
"I am the one"
page 259 The boy knows that the man worries constantly about their lives. But the boy says, "You're not the one who has to worry about everything.... Yes I am, I am the one" (McCarthy 259). This symbolizes the boy as a huge godly figure. The boy not only worries about himself and the man, the boy also worries about all humans (the man doesn't worry about the well-being of others). -
The Arrow
page 263 The man gets shot in the thigh with an arrow and shoots the flare gun at the man who shot him. The cut is pretty bad but the man is able to clean it and stitch it up. The wound eventually heals. -
Death
page 281 The man's impending doom finally arrives. The reader has known that the man was going to die because of the severe bloody coughing fits. The man tells the boy that he will always be with him. The boy tries to help his father, but with no success. The boy stays with the body for three days before finding the courage to travel down the road. -
The New Man
page 281 On the road, the boy meets a man that says he has a son and a daughter. The man also says he is "carrying the fire" which has been important through out the whole book. The boy decides to trust the man and go with him. Before the book ends there is a conversation between multiple people, and the conversation leads the reader to believe that the man and his family had followed the man and the boy since the bog saw the other little boy in the beginning of the book.
