Sunday, May 30, 2010

last review on THE ROAD

There are 3 person in my head when I think about the boy. He has very unique characteristic and is not much revealed in the story.

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You're not the one who has to worry about everything.
The boy said something but he couldnt understand him.
What? he said.
He looked up, his wet and grimy face.
Yes I am, he said.
I am the one.

1) This part actually made my hair stand because it was exactly the same dialogue I had with my friend if only looking at this part and not looking at the upper part or the background. She loves sticking her nose on others' business and this sometimes got on my nerves. Therefore, I quite understand the feeling the man would have had when the boy tried to help most of the strangers they approach. The reason I said that my friend exactly resembles the boy in only that part of the dialogue is because she might not often have good intention for being interested in others :p While the boy wants to help others, she just wants to know all about the world around her. She's curious creature haha. Still, she helped me and her close ones a lot and because of her interest in others, she was one of the best people to talk to when I had something to decide or bothering me. She had quite different personality this way but now I think it helped us to become one of the best friends.

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He's not gone, the boy said. He looked up. His face streaked with soot. He's not.
What do you want to do?
Just help him, Papa. Just help him.
The man looked back up the road.
He was just hungry, Papa. He's going to die.
He's going to die anyway.
He's so scared, Papa.

2) If I were to change this dialogue, it would be like this.
-> What do you want to do?
Just leave it. Leave it alone.
My classmate sitting next to me looked at his desk.
It doesnt bother you at alll. It's going to die.
It's going to die anyway.
It's scared of you.

There was once a mayfly-like bug on my partner's desk and he tried to play with it. However, it was really bothering. Although I'm not a great fan of insects, the idea of killing it or especially torturing it disgusts me. Especailly after reading Franz Kafka's 'Die Verwandlung', I had somekind of feeling that insects actually have perception.

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I wasnt going to kill him, he said. But the boy didnt answer.
They rolled themselves in the blankets and lay there in the dark.
He thought he could hear the sea but perhaps it was just the wind.
He could thell by his breathing that the boy was awake and after a while the boy said:
But we did kill him.

3) The boy kind of creeped me out this part. However, except the part above, the boy pretty much showed saintlike personality. I couldnt be sure with all the parts in the story but I had impression that the boy is similar to the baby Jesus. Of course they are both young, and the way the boy tries to help others by giving out some of his shares it is similar. Also, through out the story, mention of carrying the fire seems to have some kind of connection too. Like Jesus, himself being a connection of people and the God, the boy also seems to be connecter to survivors as the boy is one of few, or only one who still contains purity.

2 comments:

  1. Your comparison of the boy to Jesus (or a savior/prophet like figure at any rate) is not without foundation. In that light, how do you read his assertion that he is "the one"?

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  2. Some people think they are doing other people a favor by sticking their noses in other people's business. Most of them are nice guys, and even though sometimes it annoys the life out of us most of them mean good. Your thoughts made me think of someone, and I guess I should be kinder to that person from now on, cuz she probably means no evil.

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