While standing next to a corpse, that character refuses to give up a pistol with two bullets to a hooded man who claims to be one of the "good guys" rather than a cannibal.
In this novel, a dream about a scary wind-up penguin terrifies a character who appears in another's dreams laid out on a coolingboard and like a "[pilgrim] in a fable" entering a cave where a sightless creature crouches over a lake. This novel ends with the image of "maps and mazes" on the backs of brook trout in mountain streams. Two characters in this novel offer a prayer to "the people" after buttering biscuits they find in a bunker full of peaches and pears. In this novel, glimpsing a (*) dog and a little boy haunts a character who believes that nothing bad will happen to him because he is "carrying the fire." While standing next to a corpse, that character refuses to give up a pistol with two bullets to a hooded man who claims to be one of the "good guys" rather than a cannibal. For 10 points, name this chronicle of a father's journey with his son across a post-apocalyptic waste, a work by Cormac McCarthy.
In this novel, a dream about a scary wind-up penguin terrifies a character who appears in another's dreams laid out on a coolingboard and like a "[pilgrim] in a fable" entering a cave where a sightless creature crouches over a lake.
The Road