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===<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left"><span style="background-color: rgb(158, 200, 235); font-size: 180%">"How does the never to be differ from the what never was ?" (Page 32) <span style="background-color: rgb(158, 200, 235)">  ===

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=== <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left"><span style="background-color: rgb(158, 200, 235)">"If they saw different worlds what they knew was the same ." (Page 180)  ===

<span style="background-color: rgb(158, 200, 235)"> ===**<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center"><span style="background-color: rgb(158, 200, 235); font-size: 180%">"'Where is [the fire ]? I dont know where it is.' 'Yes you do. It's inside of you . It was always there. I can see it.'" (Page 279) **===



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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif">**__DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:__**
==== <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif">How do you think the boy will adapt to his future without his father? Do you think his fathers courage and bravery will be passed on, or has the boy lived with too much destruction to feel brave? ==== <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif">

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif">Would the man have remained alive as long as he did if it were not for the boy's presence?
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif">Did the boy learn his moral standings from the father or did he make a conscious decision as to what is wrong and right?
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; background-color: rgb(158, 200, 235); text-align: left; display: block"> <span style="font-size: 150%; font-family: Georgia,serif; background-color: rgb(158, 200, 235); text-align: left; display: block"> Both the man and the boy in McCarthy's __The Road__ exemplify the relationship between father and son, yet to a greater extent than normal. The father, as a normal father would, places the boy's welfare over his own and fights to survive for the good of his child. He must however decide whether or not the son should live if the bad guys attack. For the good of his child, he teaches the boy to shoot himself if any danger every does arrive. The son on the other hand, loves his father and wishes to always be with him so that he may help his father should something happen. One may expect the pair to bond on a level only capable of parent and child, and yet their relationship goes further. As they only travel and interact with one another, they form a bond of friendship and trust deeper than many. The boy is the man's connection to humanity and the man the boy's. They have only each other in this world and therefore their relationship is tightly woven. They are also connected by the symbolic fire, which makes its appearance throughout the novel, and thus will never be separated even in death. The fire, residing within each protects their goodness and morality as a fire would help protect one who is freezing or one who must cook their food in order to survive. The fire provides the boy with tangible evidence that he is good as he sees the world in black and white, devoid of all other colors. The man, not needing this proof, simply convinces the boy that as they have the fire, they are good. The man does not need this recognition due to the fact he is from a different world. He sees Earth as a destruction zone, never to return to its former glory. The boy, however, having never known the man's world is able to see the goodness in it with much greater ease. The boy is very idealistic and wishes to help others because he knows it is right. The man, however, having the capability of discerning that which is wrong from that which is acceptable or worthy of breaking the moral code, does not share the boy's views on the world. For this reason they perceive different worlds through the same vision. The man and son on the video represent how the man and the boy come together to overcome every obstacle in their way. The son on the video must fight his disorder whereas the father must battle every step he takes with the care of his son in his arms. Each has helped the other in some way as well. The father to give the son a life and the son to save the father from heart disease. This video provides a link to the man and the boy in the book because the man would starve for the boy yet the boy would do anything to keep the man alive and healthy.