Looking back my own experience after this reading.

When I started to read this book, I didn’t even know what to do. There were so many new words that I can’t look for every single word. Also the background and plots were hard to draw in my head. When I checked the Gifted Class The Road Blog to see what I should do for the assignment, I was little bit worried because I had some problems with understanding the details of the book. Rather than trying to focus on every little detail, I tried to feel the overall mood of the story. I thought it would be better to find the background atmosphere and get to know about the characters. While I was reading the part from page 3 to 50, I could find some information about the man and the boy. The man is the boy’s father and there’s almost nothing alive except them. Furthermore, it seems there had been a disaster or something so that everything was ruined. In this situation, the man and the boy spend all the time together. They walk along the road, looking for food, sleep outside and rely on each other. Of course the whole mood is very serious and nervous, I wanted to focus more on the relationship between the man and the boy than the events. I liked the man trying to take great care of his son during the whole time. He often asked his son if he was okay, and tried to give as many things as he could to his son. That reminded me of my father. Maybe this would be little bit out of the story, but I wanted to tell you how similar to the man my father is. When I was only 8, I remember, I often went to fishing with my father. We used to spend whole night at the fishing spot. One day, suddenly it started to rain. My father quickly built a tent and we spend the night in the tent listening to the raindrops. I remember it was the most scary, cold, but sweet, warm, and precious memory. It was very cold because of the weather, I felt warm in my fathers protection. I was so young and there was nobody to believe but my father. He gave me all the clothes and blankets even though he had been cold too. Also, he kept asking me if I were cold, hungry, sleepy, scary, and okay just like the man did to his son. Although the situation and the mood are slightly different from the book, I could notice that all fathers are the same. They try their best to do everything if it is for their kids. If I were in that situation, (of course I do no really want to be) I would believe my father and rely on him a lot. No matter how hard time it would be, I will be happy if I am with him. Just being with him, it makes me feel comfortable and relaxed. While I was reading the book, I couldn’t really think of any similar experience to that in the story because it is too serious and apocalyptic story. However, when I finished reading the part, somehow I felt warm as if the man was my father. And it reminded me of my experience in my childhood. I don’t know if there is someone who thinks that it’s little bit off the track to focus on the relation between father and child, but I think it’s also important to think about the character’s relationship and their feelings to each other. This was what I felt about the man and the son while reading the part up to page 50.