At a family dinner a few days ago, my dad began a rant about everything the father in The Road did wrong, which was, apparently, everything. He completely lacked survival skills and common sense.
This led to the question: If you were living in a post-apocalyptic nightmare-world, which 5 people (outside of your immediate family- assume that they somehow all survived as well) would you want with you?
1) Dumbledore: for protection, spirit, and general awesomeness. He is the most wise, clever, eccentric wizard; his mere presense would probably ward of most of the bad guys. If any cannibals showed up? No big deal- he would just turn them into crows or sparkles, or confund them. Plus, it would mean proof that there was magic.
2)A thirty-year-old version of my Uncle Buck: my father's cousin, a logger/carpenter/handyman in the northwoods of Wisconsin. He could help with anything: building our house, fishing and farming, plumbing, and by providing spirited entertainment from the tunes of his harmonica.
3)John F. Kennedy: for outstanding leadership and motivation. It is, indeed, a close call between JFK and John Aroutiounian.
4) Mr. Pope.
5)Squanto: for knowing the land and the ways of the natural world.
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This would be very entertaining to write.
ReplyDeleteI have to say I'm of you for this Beth. This did NOT make me throw up.
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