Assignment(51--100) JACK

As the father and the son are going to the south, they see and experience a lot of things. At first, they meet the truck people, who attract the son and the father by suggesting to giving them some food. But, in fact, they are some bad guys wanting to get some food from other survivors. Thus one of them grabs the boy and feeling dangerous, the father shoots the guy. After running away from those truck people, they reach to a small village. They try really hard to get some food from discarded houses, only to fail to get. Feeling extremely hungry, the boy and the father keep following the road.

Here, the father hates hearing the boy's "I don't care if I die." This is because the little boy is his only warrant, and without the son, the man will not be able to make it to the south coast. In other words, they are depending on each other with love. Or, perhaps, the father is afraid of his own death caused by the disease that makes him cough. The father knows that if he dies, the boy will be eaten by other people and become one of the constituents of the "pool of guts." I was actually shocked when I noticed that what the truck person is chewing can be a kind of flesh of a person. In reality, the man says that he eats whatever he can find around him, and "whatever" here may contain the human beings that he saw. And I believe that the truck man takes the boy in order to threat the father and keep him from moving until he gets to the truck and cook the boy. Isn't this "cook" cruel? How can a person cook another person? Filthy, eh?

The last thing that I could feel reading was, although this is not related to the context of the book, that the author of this book, Cormac Mccarthy does not use any proper punctuation. Instead of don't, he uses dont, and he even does not add quotation marks after quoting what the characters say. And the sentence structure itself is not so complicated. I believe that this puts highlight on the simple and basic life of the father and the son. They should live on the minimal amount(basic amount) of food, carry the basic clothing and blankets, and they should think most basically so that they can survive in that full-of-cannibals world. I can be sure that I am not gonna eat people even though there is nothing to eat.

I confess I read some more, about 20 pages or so, and I can be sure that there will be something really exciting, and shoking for some of those. And there is only one bullet left in the man and the boy's gun. I wonder how that will be used.