(E)- We acquire information that a series of concussions has caused an ecumenical blackout, that the son was born after the blackout, that the boy's mother committed suicide shortly after, and that the father, who is sick and has a gun with only two bullets, wants to peregrinate southwest alongside the road headed for the ocean. The novel begins in media res, so most of this exposition comes in chunks of flashbacks strewn randomly throughout the novel. (RA)- we learn that cannibals and bands marauders threaten the tandem, that the father and son must compete from them in order to survive, that the father and son must race with these subhumans for aliment, warmth, shelter, and resources. (C)- A cannibal captures the boy and threatens to kill
