On Fire

Chechi wrote a really interesting post, "Road on Fire", that summarizes her reading as well as points out important meanings from the text. 
She begins where the father enters the house of his childhood. I agree that this was an important part of the novel that should be highlighted. It gives background information on the father and more context to what happened in the characters' lives before the story began.
I really enjoyed the way she chose to respond to the text, summarizing her reading while picking out aspects that had a special significance to the story. And at the same time she was able to find deeper meanings in these areas. 
My favourite of her interpretations of the text comes at the end, as she describes when the boy and the man encounter the traveler who had been hit by lightening. She points out how the two main characters' different attitudes towards this unfortunate man show "how tragedy has dehumanized the man, but the son is still innocent and pure, which makes him vulnerable to inevitable things like death." I love how deeply she was able to read into this and make such an interesting observation.