Last assignment! -- JACK

In p.250, the boy is still sick, maybe because of swimming in the cold sea, and the man is also growing to sick. He tries hard to stay awake, but it is impossible to do so. He slaps himself or stands up to gather some wood, but he keeps falling asleep. At last, he clenches his fists and pounds the ground with rage, sobbing. I believe he got angry due to the dark and hopeless world covered with gray ash. After the man doing this, his son wakes up and says that he had a weird dream that he does not want to talk about. Probably a dream of the father's death or something.

Some days later, the father and his son go on a trip along the beach and make a leanto and stay there for 2 days. At this time, they just forgot about the danger remaining on the road. The man didn't ever think that somebody would take their cart, tarp, and everything. However, when he sees the boot prints, which were neither his or his son's, what he forgot just comes up to his mind. They run to where they had stayed before and find nothing is left. "Oh Christ," the man says. "You stupid ass," the man says to himself. Shocked, the man decides to keep track of the bootprints, and on the road, the child finds some beachsand. They walk and walk and walk and eventually catch the thief. He is holding a knife, but our man has a gun, so he orders him to put down the knife and step back. Again, our little boy feels sympathetic and begs him not to kill him. Thus, instead of killing the thief, the man makes him take off whatever he is wearing. The boy cries, so the father puts the clothes they deprived him of on the empty road and sets off. This is one of the exciting scenes of The Road, I believe.

The father keeps coughing. While they are walking, resting, and sleeping, the man coughs. So hard that a cluster of blood came out. It becomes more and more frequent, and as it gets worse, the father weaker and weaker. Walking along the road, they encounter a sea city, where some houses existed. Suddenly, from one of the houses, an arrow flies toward the man, and it is close. Another shot hits the man's leg and causes a sharp pain. But at this time, the man is prepared and shoots the flaregun back to where the arrow came. A few seconds later, a scream. The flaregun hit the shooter and he got burnt. Such a nice shot, maybe this is the second time that he made nice shots. The first time was when they met one of the truck people. The man sutures the wound and sets off again.

I actually couldn't get the meaning of carrying the fire, but while reading p.279, I was able to understand what fire was. It was the hope inside our heart. Because of this fire, the man and the child could go on and on along the beach, but now, the fire inside the man is going faint and dying. The man dies! Oh, God, the man dies. But the more astonishing situation is that somebody else with was watching them. Fortunately he is a good person and helps the child.

The trout, on which the map of everything was, is now dead and cannot be put back. I'll miss you, man.