The+Bad+Guys+Fourth+2010

= The "Bad" Guys  =



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---"They passed two hundred feet away, the ground shuddering lightly. Trampling. Behind them cam wagons drawn by slaves and 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." pg. 92 ======

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---"By then all stores of food had given out and murder was everywhere upon the land. The world soon to be largely populated by men who would eat your children in front of your eyes and the cities themselves held by cores of blackened looters who tunneled among the ruins and crawled from the rubble white of tooth and eye carrying charred and anonymous tins of food in nylon nets like shoppers in the commissaries of hell." pg. 181 ======

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---"He woke in the morning and turned over in the blanket and looked back down the road through the trees the way they'd come in time to see the marchers appear four abreast. Dressed in clothing of every despriction, all wearing red scarves at their necks. Red or orange, as close to red as they could find. He put his hand on the boy's head. Shh, he said." pg. 91 ======

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---"In the night he heard hideous shrieks coming from the house and he tried to put his hands over the boy's ears and after awhile the screaming stopped. . . We have to go. the boy didn't answer but he knew he was awake." pg. 115 ======

= Analysis: = The existence of bad guys in __The Road__ sets the mood and urgency that the father holds during their journey. The world has turned to a place where cannibalism is present and searching for food to survive is a person's motive to life. The bad guys that the father mentions are those who have turned to cannibalism and who he is tyring to hide the boy and himself from. In many ways the father and son could be seen as the good guys because they have continued their journey without stooping down to cannibalism, but have worked hard and searched for water and food. They can be seen as having endurance because they not only learned the ways of living in the cold and woods, like animals, but they also worked hard to hide themselves from the bad people that made them anxious and caused them to constantly look over their shoulders. The father tries to instill morality in the little boy but the constant battle between hiding from the bad guys and the boy's questioning causes the father to loose morality and the son to be confused on what moral really is. The boy may question this because the father has questioned his life and worth and because when times come to the worst the father would only look out for himself and the child.

= Questions: = What is the difference between being a bad guy and just looking out for oneself, in this type of world? What makes the bad guys bad, in this world? Do bad guys really exist?

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