The Road Rat Lesson

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Dystopia they normally goes to the east to California which is hope and the sun shine state however in this they go to the equator which is south, due to them needing the warmth for winter, which links to the idea of global warming.
- the boy's little truck foreshadows the real truck which comes later in this section of the book.
- the men that appear with the truck are unusual and slightly scary in 'bio-hazard suits' and 'masks' also the fact they have 'clubs' shows the brutality and violence of this world if you have to carry an old weapon.
- they are coughing as well which could suggest they are weak and dying( which might be why the run away later) or/ as well shows the world dying around them.
- as they appearing the punctuation become more frequent causing the tension to be built as well as it mimicking the man's or the boy's heart beats as the people are appearing in the road.
- Macedon = tarmac, which gets described like cracking paint which is caused either by chemicals or very high heat!
- the truck breaking down, makes you remember what the wife says, as well as building an anti climax to the story as you believe they are going to die.
the breathing of the man creates the tension as you don't know what's going to happen next as well ass making a slightly scary atmosphere.
emaciation = thin, malnutrition.
collared= the black rings, horror theme to it as well as making it scary !
'Like an animal inside a skull looking out the eye holes'

the bird tattoo = incorrect, they don't know what it looks like as they worlds eduction is decaying like the world it's self or they have been extinct for a while and they have no clue what it is.
the description of the men leaves the image of rednecks in the readers head.
the man shooting the road rat is a very quick scene showing that he might have had an unusual job, which may have involved killing people.
Free indirect style which mimics the man, as it sounds like the character.
- the brain is describe in high detail, showing the man's medical knowledge before being shot and after shows the horror of it bubbling.
- there is a father son moment as they run away, as the boy is on his shoulders.
'No of course not' another use of free indirect style.
- the eat the road rat, one he is dead, 'waste not want not,' two it show the cannibalism of the society they live in, three it show the reader the danger the boy and the father really are in.
- then one day on the man still hasn't washed the brain's out of the boy's hair, ass he hasn't though it important, that eating and living where. which they are staying clean for them isn't.