The word "found" is used 58 times in the novel. Most of the time it is connected with the man; sometimes the boy finds things; and together they find things. Of course, the main thing found is the family at the end, by the boy. Most of what the man finds in useless, or he is so paranoid that he must soon give it up or abandon it.
So the man mainly finds a whole lot of "nothing" (of use). He finds candles, dead bodies, flint, beer bottles, gas, a box of batteries, butane lighters, .45 ACP cartridges, 30-30 cartridge shells, refuge, paper plates, blankets, a bucksaw, a wheelbarrow, a band of marauders, abandoned children, wanderers.
Here are some quotes:
They found some utensils and a few pieces of clothing. A sweatshirt. Some plastic they could use for a tarp.
They collected some old boxes and built a fire in the floor and he found some tools and emptied out the cart and sat working on the wheel. He pulled the bolt and bored out the collet with a hand drill and resleeved it with a section of pipe he'd cut to length with a hacksaw. Then he bolted it all back together and stood the cart upright and wheeled it around the floor. It ran fairly true. The boy sat watching everything.
Coming back he found the bones and the skin piled together with rocks over them. A pool of guts.
They used to play quoits in the road with four big steel washers they'd found in a hardware store but these were gone with everything else.
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