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The Road Quest
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<span style="COLOR: rgb(161,145,145)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(170,97,44)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"> ||  ||   ||< <span style="COLOR: rgb(161,145,145)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(123,116,116)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"><span style="COLOR: rgb(170,97,44)">The man and the boy, we never find out their true names, only that they are Father and son. The man is very cautious and has several flash backs to his unpleasant past. The boy is young and scared but seems to understand things more than the reader would expect. <span style="COLOR: rgb(232,117,33)"> <span style="COLOR: rgb(232,117,33)"> We wouldn't ever eat anybody, would we? No. Of course not. Even if we were starving? We're starving now. You said we wern't I said we wern't dying I didn't say we weren't 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" pg 129 ||        ||   ||   ||< <span style="COLOR: rgb(8,8,8)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(146,129,129)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(123,116,116)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace">They are traveling South.
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 * < <span style="COLOR: rgb(123,116,116)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(170,97,44)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(170,97,44)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(170,97,44)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"><span style="COLOR: rgb(8,8,8)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(146,129,129)">A Place to go

<span style="COLOR: rgb(8,8,8)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(146,129,129)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(123,116,116)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"><span style="COLOR: rgb(238,91,27)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(232,117,33)">"Where are we going? We're going south." pg 60     || ||  ||   ||< <span style="COLOR: rgb(170,97,44)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace">It is warmer and possibly safer in the South.
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<span style="COLOR: rgb(170,97,44)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"><span style="COLOR: rgb(232,117,33)"> "They were moving south. There'd be no surviving another winter here." pg 4

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||  ||   ||< <span style="COLOR: rgb(123,116,116)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace">The weather, lack of food, sleep, supplies for shelter, clothing, bloodcults, theives, health

<span style="COLOR: rgb(232,117,33)">"The following day they trekked on till almost dark. He could find no safe place to make a fire. pg 176

They plodded on, thin and filthy as street addicts. Cowled in their blankets against the cold and their breath smoking, shuffling through the black and silky drifts. They were crossing the broad coastal plain where the secular winds drove them in howling clouds of ash to find shelter where they could. pg 177 <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif"><span style="COLOR: rgb(232,117,33)">"We have to stop, he said.   <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif"><span style="COLOR: rgb(232,117,33)">It's really cold. I know. Where are we? Where are we? yes.  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif"><span style="COLOR: rgb(232,117,33)">I don't know." pg 94  || ||  ||   ||< <span style="COLOR: rgb(123,116,116)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace"><span style="COLOR: rgb(170,97,44)">Motivation to stay alive, make contact with the good guys and escape getting captured from the bad guys. <span style="COLOR: rgb(232,117,33)"> "We should go, Papa. We've got to find something to eat. We have no choice. We could find something somewhere else. It's going to be all right. come on." pg 106  || === <span style="COLOR: rgb(75,195,99)"><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(158,157,143); COLOR: rgb(115,211,196)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(244,37,37)"><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(190,177,177); COLOR: rgb(27,19,19)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 130%">-Do you think this story fits the Quest model? ===
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=== <span style="COLOR: rgb(75,195,99)"><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(158,157,143); COLOR: rgb(115,211,196)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(244,37,37)"><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(190,177,177); COLOR: rgb(27,19,19)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 130%">-Would you consider this a quest story? ===

=== <span style="COLOR: rgb(75,195,99)"><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(158,157,143); COLOR: rgb(115,211,196)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(244,37,37)"><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(190,177,177); COLOR: rgb(27,19,19)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 130%">-What archetype would you categorize the man as? === === <span style="COLOR: rgb(75,195,99)"><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(158,157,143); COLOR: rgb(115,211,196)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(244,37,37)"><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(190,177,177); COLOR: rgb(27,19,19)"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 130%">The boy? ===

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What if EVERYWHERE you turned you saw gray?



<span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(230,15,15); COLOR: rgb(234,210,249)"><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(55,50,62); COLOR: rgb(180,175,162); FONT-SIZE: 70%">Would you be able to keep going?

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