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I really enjoyed the main theme of the story, which was the man's love for his son. He proved to the reader that he would go through so much just to protect his son from any situation at all costs. The man cared so much for his son that he always tried to find the best places to stay, provide the best food, keeping him warm, and reading to him before he goes to sleep each night. A perfect example of protecting his child would be when the father shot the bandit who dared to touch his son; you could tell that he didn’t even have to think twice about it. In other stories, the characters always take their time to kill the bad guy when they are holding someone they love. The bandit even knew that the man had never killed a human before in his life so he thought that he
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He was also strong enough to keep carrying the fire with him. Since he carries the fire, he cares for people, for instance, "You have some, Papa" (page 20). This quote is from when the father found a coca cola and decides to give it to his child and have none for him. But his son wants him to have some with him and that shows that he enjoys sharing what he has with others. Like that well known quote says, "sharing is caring". There were characters in the story that I didn't like at all, which were the four bearded men and two women that would capture other humans and get them naked and then throw them in their basement so they could eat them later. I just don't understand how someone can have no soul or heart to be able to torture their own kind. I know the world is ending, but it doesn't mean that humans should be eating each other. What happens to them when they eat all of the humans and there is none left? Are they going to go against each other and whoever dies first gets

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