5th November 2012

First 6 pages
How does the episode impact on you? What was the writer doing to evoke this response?

• Makes you feel emotions inside you
• Sadness
• Privilidge
• Guilt (feeling sorry for them)
• Confusion

He does this by using very emotive language. ''Tolling in the silence the minutes of the earth and the hours and the days of it and the years without cease''

Plot progression (what will happen next?)
Foreshadowing..

• The cart gets stolen
• They meet someone on the road
• Someone gets shot with the pistol

''He took the pistol from his belt and laid it on the cloth''

Your experience (change of mood? a lighter moment? increase or release of tension?)

• No change of mood.. all drab and boring
• Gas station = sign of hope
• No release of tension even in gas station, because the man is still sceptical

''We have to go back''

How does this develop charectors and their relationship?

• Man and son ''papa''
• Boy is reliant of the man
• Man is there to take care of boy

''I'm right here.
I know''

The techniques employed by McCarthy.. Is the language in keeping with the rest of the novel? Are there particular symbols or images that are fore grounded?

• The novel is simple, no punctuation, no climax but the language is sophisticated in certain areas. 'Glaucoma' <- symbollic of what they can see in the road (cloudy, misty, not clear)
• Symbols
• Beast ''And on the far shore acreature that raised its dripping mouth from the rimstone pool and stared into the light with eyes dead white and sightless as the eggs of spiders.

Is this infact a key episode? What makes it important? How does it stand out in a novel without chapters or chapter lines?

• First time you meet charectors
• Imagery of setting
• Introduction
• Desporate
• Relationship
• Being chased