“… The boys, with their guns and bats in their hands were taking the plywood off the store fronts and loading them into their trucks. I looked around and saw no one around so I hid in the rubble near the side of a store afraid they might see me.” (p. 148)
This quote showed me that the town wasn’t protected much and people, like the boys could run freely and do whatever they wanted, without any authorities telling them not to. The quote also showed how with no police it’s becoming dangerous in the world they live in and how as the world becomes dangerous the issue of “everyone for themselves” comes up too. Will people still respect and help each other out or just be greedy and disrespectful? Another thing that this quote pointed out was how an issue in this book is that now that it’s dangerous to leave your house especially for women/ girls being more vulnerable. I wonder if they should just stay in their house the whole day long and let the men/ boys do the work. But as the book progressed on, it did show more reason for women/ girls not to go outside (like the grey sky because all the volcanic ash in the air, making it hard to breath or do hard work outside)
I also wonder if the world will ever be the same again because I don’t think so because what I have been reading there are no changes that are positive back that might lead back to what it had been before all this had happened.
I also notice that Susan Pfeffer divided the book by season then by chapter and when I looked closer I noticed that whenever a new season started they would have a picture of the moon and the shading would change like and when you look at the chapter beginnings first it started with a small moon then when the moon came closer and closer the moons in the beginning of the chapters would grow bigger and bigger. Hmm…I wonder if this means something.
Questions:
· Will things get better in the future?
· Will they every see the blue sky ever again?
· Will Miranda go back outside after that incident?
· AND WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT?
