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Poem Analysis: The Road

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For my final analysis to the road I decided to create a collage to better help me have a visual of what I seeing while reading the book, the road had an end of times/apocalypse theme. I decided to take that theme and create a world that the father and son was living in which was full off wildlife nothing but nature and humans with no souls. As I read all three of the stories they're all related to death and a disoriented world. The three stories all had seemed to begin as dreams, the narrators were telling a story within a story like a flashback. “He spread the small trap they used for a table on the ground and laid everything out and he took the pistol from his belt and laid it on the cloth and then he just sat watching the boy sleep “(5). While reading the novel I realized the father did a lot of day dreaming because he couldn't sleep knowing he had a child to look over and he wouldn't allow anything to happen to him. In my collage I decided to include the illusion of a very unpleasant environment, people are dead and only nature survive. I also created a rod out of pieces of the map because I wasn’t completely sure where this journey was taking place from; the author left a lot out of the …show more content…

I used magazines, to find images of branches and grass to create a scenery of the wilderness, I also added in animals to show how animals will still exist during this time of the apocalypse. The colors green and brown are repeated lot through my collage to show the harmony and peace that will over shadow the hatred and hurt that was experienced before. The color brown signifies stability and structure that was lacked before, all of the images that are on my collage are the things that we daily take for granted like the grass, branches, and

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