Why Is It Important To Me

Question 5 “ ‘Leave it,’ he said. ‘It was just a crazy idea I had. It’s not important.’
‘It is important,’ she said. ‘It’s important to me.’ She raised her head. ‘I can get one for you by the time you come back,’ she said. ‘I’ll do that, even if I have to get it made. I know that isn’t quite what you want. But would that do?’
‘That’s mighty kind of you,’ he said huskily. ‘I could tell her you were bringing it along with you.’
‘I could do that,’ she said. ‘But anyway, I’ll have it with me when we meet again.’
‘You might have to bring it a long way,’ he said.
‘Don’t worry, Dwight. I’ll have it with me when we meet.’ In the dark alcove, he took her in his arms and kissed her. ‘That’s for the promise,’ he said softly, ‘and for everything else. Sharon wouldn’t mind me doing this. It’s from us both.’” Chapter 5, p. 186
I enjoyed this passage because it shows that even while the world meets its end, humans will still show compassion. Another reason I like this quote; it shows how Dwight still loves his family even though they certainly have died.
Very soon, perhaps in a month’s time, there would be no one here, no living creatures but the cats and dogs that had been granted a short reprieve. Soon they too would be gone; summers and winters would pass by and these houses and these streets would know them. Presently, as time passed, the radioactivity would pass also; with a cobalt half-life of about five years these streets and houses would be habitable again in twenty years at the latest, and probably sooner than that. The human race was to be wiped out and the world made clean again for wiser occupants without undue delay. Well, probably that made sense.” Chapter 8, pp.