Speculative Fiction & Poetry--Assignment 11 James Madison University

Instructions: Please type your initial commentary for submission. It should be at least a paragraph or two. Your question/quote can be handwritten or typed on the bottom/back of the same page or on another full-sized sheet of paper. Remember to include your name at the top of the assignment. Multiple pages should be stapled together.

• For this Initial Commentary, find any one specific event, image, motif, setting, etc. from the novel The Road through page 194 that seems categorizable (or nearly categorizable) as either science fiction or fantasy/myth. Describe and explain your choice, including both what the relevant characteristics are and how close the genre match seems to be.