The Road 101-133

      In this section of the book the man and the boy were very desperate for food, beacause they had gone without any for days. The man and boy had camped out on the road one night when it had started to snow. The man then saw tracks in the road and realized that they had to get off because they thought that someone was patrolling the road with a wagon. Then sure enough when the man and boy got off the road two men, but the boy and man were able to get off the road and hide from these bad guys. Then the man and boy found this big house inside of a town, and the man decided that they should go in and see if there was any food because the man and boy haven't eaten for five days. The entire time the man and boy were searching this house, the boy had a bad feeling about it and kept telling the man that they should go. The man was searching through the house and he found this door that was locked, and he thought that there might be some food in there for him and his son. The man found a shovel in the garage so that he could pry open the locked door. When the man and the boy went downstairs to see what was in the room, they saw people down there male and female, and they also saw a man without any legs laying on a mattress with his hips burned. These people trapped in here kept repeating "help us, help us", the man and boy quickly ran out of the house and started running for the woods near the road. As they were leaving, four bearded men and two women came running towards the house, these people burst into the house and went downstairs. The man and boy kept running from the house in fear that the cannibals would catch them and kill them. As the man and boy were on the run, they stopped inside this orchard, and when the boy was asleep, the man went looking for resources. When the man was walking around he found these apples in the ground, and he found more than he could carry. The man also, found a drainpipe inside the house that dumped water out into a concrete tank. The man and boy were then able to drink all the water they could and eat every single apple they had to stop their hunger.

               I thought that this section of the book exposed the realities of what would happen if their was an apocalyptic event. All of these include the man and boy almost starving to death because there would be no food, and if there was any the people before them would have already eaten it. Also, there would probably be some desperate people like the cannibals in this section that would be able to overpower a small group and then use them. I was also glad that the man and boy were able to find some food and water after that encounter with the cannibal at the house. I also, wonder how all of these people would have survived the apocalyptic event.