Why do you think that the novel ends with the image of trout in mountain streams before the end of the world: “In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery” (287). What does it suggest about what lies ahead?

The lines suggest a fall back into the laws of nature following the failure of human laws as seen in the novel.

Explanation:

'The Road' is a post apocalyptic novel that develops an understanding that often the scientific method runs counter to the way human brain wants to work which is more in tune with the law of nature.

As all societal rules crumble and fail in the book, it is evident that all things greater than man, and by default older than man will survive him.

So the emphasis in this line is on older than man and mystery bath of which would have been understood had man not tried to conquer the world on his terms.

caliban is prospero's slave in the shakespear's play "the tempest"

anyone who was dealing with communism in soviet union in his time had an ideal picture of equality, freedom, the struggle of the working class for a better future, the success of the aristocracy's overthrow and the emancipation of subjugation.   however, anyone who would go to soviet union to see the functioning of the communist system, would be convinced that it was about sad people, about everyday bad life, about the brutal attitude of communist leaders, about ill obsession to completely exterminate every thought on aristocracy. thus, orwell wanted to show all the absurdity, the brutality of the system, the unbearable rule of suspicious morality, the ignorant people who try to play professionally.

the answers are: b. and e.