Timeline for the 3rd Part of the Book

At the first part of this book, the man and the boy were arguing about whether they can survive or not. They ran out of food and have starved for quite a long time. The boy believes that they are going to die very soon. One quote that really interested me was this quote. In this quote, the man tries to convince the boy that they will not die.

"How long do you think people can go without food?
I don't know.
But how long do you think?
Maybe a few days
And then what? You fall over dead?
Yes
Well you don't. It takes a long time. We have water. That's the most important thing. You don't last very long without water." (p.101)

After this talk, the man finds some kind of track in the snow. So, he goes to a place where you can overlook he place and finds two men. He tells the boy that they are the bad guys and they hide in the dark, trying to be unseen by other humans.


They walk along the road...


They reach the outskirts of a small town. They go into a house that the boy doesn’t want to go into. In that house, there is a male and a female naked and asking them for help. Not too soon, there are four bearded men and two women coming in the way for the house. Those people are looking for human food. They are the ‘bad’ guys. The man manages to realize very quickly that fact and runs for him and the boy’s life. They succeeded in hiding in the woods far from the house. The boy is extremely terrified. In this part, there is one thing that I think is very important. While running away from the house, the man keeps on talking about his health.

“He was going to cough. He put his whole mind to holding it back.”
“He was so weak. All his talk about running. He couldn’t run.” (p.114)

It seems that this man is quite sick in some way. I wonder what’s going to happen to the man and the boy. I mean, even if the man wasn’t sick the situation would be bad enough. Can you imagine what would happen to the boy if the man suddenly died? This part was where the sickness of the man actually evidently appeared so I felt really bad for them when I read this part and thought that it is an essential part for the storyline.

While hiding from the cannibals, the boy falls asleep. The man keeps on looking out but when the situation gets better the man decides to look for food. He goes into a burn and finds some blades, a packet of powder for making grape juice and more. He stuffs some things into his pocket. He also finds some old apples lying in the grass of the orchard. He eats some and takes the others. And, he finds some bottles and puts clean water in it. He drinks them himself first and refills it. He takes these things and gives them to the boy who just awoke from the sleep.


Then they proceed through the road.


They come up to the ruins that were once houses and the man finds old oil that smells stinky. He also finds a bear bottle and puts in some cloth at the top. This, becomes their new lamp. One shocking scene was when they came up to a mirror. The man raised his gun towards himself. It made me feel bitter because it kind of showed how cautious and worried the man is. I think it depicted very well about how dangerous the situation was.

“They came upon themselves in a mirror and he almost raised the pistol.
It’s us, Papa, the boy whispered. It’s us.” (p.132)

Then, at the same location the man finds an underground bunker. In that bunker, there is everything. There is clothes, emergency toilet, all sorts of canned food, burner, oil, practically everything. You can see how thankful and happy the man is by this quote.

“Come down. Oh my God. Come down.” (p.139)

So here, they stay for quite a few days. But, the man tells the boy that they will have to leave quite soon because it is not safe in this place. He says that they will only take what they need. The part assigned this time ends today.

I was extremely glad when the man found the bunker because I felt really bad for the man and the boy in the past. They were starving and there were cannibals all over and their bodies were too weak. Now I think it will make it easier for them to go to the south. I really was happy and wanted to scream ‘Hurray!’ when I found out that they had food!


P.S.
This week's assigned part was totally interesting. I couldn't take my eyes off of the book!
I hope the later parts are this interesting too!
I wrote this too quickly I hope you will understand my bad writing.....
I'll work harder next time ㅜㅜ