The Road 201-250

      The man and boy made there way to a creek, and they would fill up their jars full and drink out of them. The man and the boy had not eaten any food for the past two days. Then they found this house on top of a hill, and they went inside because they were starving. Once they were inside the boy was too afraid to search anywhere upstairs because he was afraid of the unknown. They stayed in this house for about two days keeping warm with a fire in the fire place. One day the man went upstairs and didn't find any food, however he found some clothes and blankets to keep warm. The man always wakes up coughing, and sometimes he coughs up some blood. They then made their way to the coast and the ocean was not blue anymore, but gray and covered in ash like everything else. They then stayed on the beach for a few days, the boy even decided to go swimming in the freezing cold water while the man made a fire. The man had spotted a boat that had been wrecked near the shore, and he decided to go looking for supplies on the boat. When the man got to the boat he did not find much. He found about fifty feet of rope that he could use some clothes that could keep him warm, and some different cans of fruits and vegetables. The man went back to the shore and they stayed on the beach or a few more days. When the man got back to the beach it started to rain and it was already dark, they panicked because they could not find their other supplies. Eventually the man heard the sound of rain falling on the tarp, they made their way to the tarp and slept underneath it the rest of the night. As they were about to leave the beach, the man made one last trip out to the boat to look for something, the man found what he was looking for, a flare gun with eight flares. The boy then came down with a very bad fever, and he was sick for a good two to three days. The father cared for him the entire time by giving him water and medicine from a first-aid kit.

           I thought that this section was nice because they finally made it to their destination, the coast. I thought that when the boy got sick with the fever, that was the end for the boy. I was glad that the man put all of his effort into caring for the boy at his time of need. I thought that it was wierd that the man left the boy on shore with only one bullet to protect himself, when the man was so far away to do anything about it. I am also supprised to see how much stuff the man and the boy find, it is almost like they are meant to stay alive.