The Road

describe the people who ride on the truck that stops an the middle of the road

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One day, the father awakens alert, pistol in hand. He sees people approaching, "wearing canister masks. One in a biohazard suit. Stained and filthy. Slouching along with clubs in their hands, lengths of pipe" (51). Farther down the road comes the noise of a truck. The father quickly hides their belongings and runs away with the boy. The men in the truck pass them, but the truck sputters to a stop. The men in the truck dismount in order to push it past the slope. The father sees a man from the truck standing only twenty feet away. The men in the truck look like filthy, ghostly, and disheveled. A person only described as the "bearded man" engages with the man and boy.