Road+2010+The+Bad+Guys

Bad Guys!

 * **That is what the good guys do, they keep trying, they don't give up (137)**
 * **They're going to kill those people, aren't they.Yes. Why do they have to do that? I don't know. Are they going to eat them? I don't know. They're going to eat them, aren't they? Yes. And we couldn't help them because then they'd eat us too. Yes. And that's why we couldn't help them. Yes. Okay. (127)**
 * **We wouldn't ever eat anybdoy, would we? No. Of course not. Even if we were starving? We're starving now. You said we weren't. I said we weren't dying. I didn't say we werent starving. But we wouldn't. No. We wouldn't. No matter what. No. No matter what. Because we're the good guys. Yes. And we're carrying the fire. And we're carrying the fire. Yes. Okay. (127 - 129)**
 * **He walked out through the woods to where they'd left the cart. It was still lying gthere but it had been plundered. The few things they hadn't taken scattered in the leaes. Some books and toys belonging to the boy. His old shoes and some rags of clothing. He righted the cart and put the boy's things in it and wheeled it out to the road. The he went back. There was nothing there. Dried blood dark in the leaves. The boy's knapsack was gone. Coming back he found the bones and the skin piled together with rocks over them. A pool of guts. He pushed at the bones with the toe of his shoe. They looked to have been boiled. No pieces of clothing... (70 - 71)**
 * **But in the stories we're always helping people and we don't help people. (268)**
 * Analysis

The theme "Bad Guys" appears a lot through out the novel. The man and they boy find them selves in many situations involving "bad guys". Websters defines __bad__ as having undesirable negative qualities. The man and the boy consider themselves to be good however, they also have several negative qualities. They steal and the man even killed someone. He explains their negative qualities by saying that they are necessary to survive. The so called "bad guys" would consider their acions necessary as well. They real question is what really makes you "BAD". The boy is constantly worried that him and his dad are transforming into "bad guys". The dad always has to reassure him that they are the "good guys". The quotes we chose clearly explain how "bad guys" and "good guys" are portrayed in the novel. All of the quotes about the "bad guys" show how they violently kill people and eat them. The quote about the good guys says that they keep trying and don't give up. The last quote on page 268 really shows how the subject as a whole is not black and white. It is extremely hard to define what a "bad guy" really is and which of their actions are justified. In this quote the boy is unsure of where they stand. We chose to use an animoto for our media portion. We thought that by using an animoto we could clearly depict what most people consider to be a "bad guy". We used the song monster by skillet because the upbeat song will help show the negative conotation of bad. **


 * QUESTIONS **
 * 1) **How do you define a bad guy?**
 * 2) **Can what the man and the boy do be condidered "bad"?**
 * 3) **Can anyone be considered "good" in their situation?media type="custom" key="5828003" width="60" height="60" align="right"**