The+Bad+Guys+2

The "Bad Guys"


 → Jill Fusco. Erin Bailey. Lauren Baldwin. Jean Christy. ± boy Paris.←

__Quotes__  ~page 60: "They came shuffling through the ash casting their hooded heads from side to side. Some of them wearing canister masks. One in a biohazard suit. Stained and filthy. Slouching along with their hands, lengths of pipe.

~page 64: "That's a lie. What are you eating. Whatever we can find. Whatever you can find."

~page 70: "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."

~page 91: "Dressed in clothing of every description, all wearing red scarves at their necks. Red or orange, as close to red as they could find."

~page 92: "They passed two hundred feet away, the ground shuddering lightly. Tramping. Behind them came wagons drawn by slaves in harness and piled with goods of war and after that the women, perhaps a dozen in number, some of them pregnant, and lastly a supplementary consort of catamites illclothed against the cold and fitted in dogcollars and yoked each to each."

~page 92: "Did you see them? Yes. Were they the bad guys? Yes, they were the bad guys. There's a lot of them, those bad guys. Yes there are. But they're gone."

~page 109: "What the boy had seen was a charred human infant headless and gutted and blackening on the spit."

Disclaimer: Not a real baby

~page 110: "Huddled against the back wall were naked people, male and female, all trying to hide, shielding their face with their hands. On the mattress lay a man with his legs gone to the hip and the stumps of them blackened and burnt. The smell was hideous."


 * Discuss this: ** **Should you compromise your principles/morality in order to survive?

Are the "bad guys " really bad?**  = =

=
 In __The Road__ “The Bad Guys” function as a scary motivational entity. They keep the man and boy motivated to keep quiet as not to come into contact with the bad guys. They also act as a moral compass for the man and the boy. However, in stead of telling them how to act it tells them exactly how they do not want to act, no matter how bad their starvation is and how low their will to survive has become. We chose the media we did (pictures and a song) because they are both open to lots of interpretation, but at the same time they speak volumes. The pictures represent how the bad guys look and what it felt to look at them. The song represents the readers’, man and son’s opinions of the bad guys. Our quotes show how menacing, disgusting, and scary the bad guys are. They also show the boy’s fear of turning into a bad guy even though he is one of the most moral characters in the book. ======

media type="custom" key="3474084"

media type="custom" key="3474214"