Pages 87-118

Pages 87-118

In this extract we find out two moments which are key for the story. The first one is when the farther and the son are encountering a 'ragged horde' on the road. The farther describes them as the bad guys even without knowing them implying the point that everyone is untrustworthy in the world in post-apocalyptic times. The seen is significant mainly because it is the third time the man and the boy encounter other people, and they still don't trust them. Before this encounter the farther leaves behind the cart taking only the most needed items and leaving it in the snow. This shows that the trek from now on will be much harder and tougher for them. The second most important and gruesome scene in the book is when the boy and the farther find a house on the edge of a city. Inside they don't find food, but in the cellar they find a lot of humans. Then when a group of people come over the fields, this makes a vivid picture in the readers head as along the exploration of the house there are small hints given that the people are cannibals, such as the pile of clothes, the pot for cooking pigs in, etc. the writer also uses descriptive words such as 'little dance of terror' and 'Coming across the field towards the house came four bearded men and two women'. Such lines are rugged and unusual as the men described aren't showed the face at all. Other than that, that is it.