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Entry # 6

Please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. Why is this passage meaningful? Please type it into one of your entries and comment on what you think about the passage.
‘The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.’

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Entry # 5

What is the mood of this novel? What happens? Do you find this novel saddens you in any way? Why?

From my thoughts on this novel, the mood is mostly on betrayal. The novel starts with delight friendship of teenagers. Ralph, Simon, and Jack climb up the mountain, and the event forms friendship. After Jack was chosen for taking care of the fire as a signal, a boat passes, and Jack only focuses on hunting like a predator. From there, mood goes slightly, not changing through with despair. Then this beast comes out making the mood worse. Finally, Jack Merridew went away from Ralph’s group and created his own, and I suppose that this part of the story is very effective to the mood that I have chosen. This novel shows sympathy to me because of Jack’s group, which were group of teenagers who betrayed their rightness. As I said on entry # 4, trusting in one’s rightness will bring reward, but these teenagers who betrayed their rightness won’t get rewarded. From there, I feel gloomy for those teenagers with sympathy.

Entry # 4

What is the climax of this novel? What happens? How do the events of this novel make you feel?

The climax of a story is place where significant event occurs such as someone or something dies, or leaves. Another meaning for climax is place where there is a turning point. In the novel, ‘Lord of the Flies,’ I ponder that climax is when Jack Merridew changes his mind, and forms his own tribe leaving the four guys, Ralph, Piggy, and SamnEric behind. This event matches both definitions for climax. After Jack leaves the tribe to create his own tribe, everyone in the island joined Jack’s tribe since it was more fascinating than Ralph’s. Even though Jack Merridew has his tribe more attracting than that of Ralph’s tribe, Jack’s group only contains fun. Ralph’s clan includes all the teenagers’ significant theme which was to go back home, but Jack Merridew’s tribe forgot all about the theme which was to go back home. Then there comes the fierce fight between these two groups. Ralph, who believed his rightness till the end, is rewarded by the arrival of an officer, and then the novel ends. Only steady comes out of this novel to me because all of these teenagers except for Simon, Ralph, Piggy, and SamnEric didn’t keep oneself rightness. They all went to Jack’s group which just seemed more fascinating and interesting. As a conclusion, this entry showed and both the negative and positive effect if you don’t believe in your rights.

Entry # 3

Who are the main characters in the novel? Do you like them? Why or why not? What is special about them? What do they reveal about the universal human experience?

The main characters in the novel, ‘Lord of the flies,’ have very different and opposite types of characteristics. The major characters are Ralph, Jack Merridew, and Piggy. Ralph is a chief chosen by all the people in the islands, and his abilities are competent for Ralph to be a chief. On the other hand, Jack, Simon, and Piggy all have very mysterious characteristics. Ralph is very reliable leader to everyone because he understands and solves the way to the solution of a situation clearly. Piggy is a fat boy who is not really attractive to other kids because he always gets ignored by people. His cleverness helps the other teenagers in the island, such as the ability to tell the other guys about things to do step by step. On the other hand, Jack Merridew is very helpless teenager who always thinks about himself. He is the leader of the choir, or I should say hunters now, and he eager to be the chief on the island, but fails because of Ralph. After he comes to the island, he becomes more and more negative, and becomes nothing more than a slaughter, or killer. To me, Piggy and Ralph are more attractive than Jack. Since Piggy and Ralph don’t forget their purpose of going home, they always think about being rescued while Jack Merridew is pondering things about hunting pigs. What Jack Merridew becomes, is a predator since he kills the pigs and enjoy it. From those characters, I saw some conflict between each character. When there is a group of people, there is always a fight, from opposing ideas. This novel showed rightness or fault that of a universal human experience.

Entry # 2

Are there are any current situations in the world that relate to the novel? What are they, and how do they relate? Does the novel shed any light on how current situations could be resolved or "fixed"?

There is a movie that has same idea that of ‘Lord of the Flies.’ The name of the movie is Mist. In this movie, people in the Townsville adhere to market with fear since people inside the mist died. At first, they all had common idea about helping each other till the problem is solved, but one person has very negative mind on those towns people just like Jack Merridew. This person makes an unreasonable prediction that sacrifice will calm the beasts down in the mist. Some of the people agreed to the prediction and stayed on her side. They actually killed one person as a sacrifice and threw him into the mist, and then that day no beast attacked the market. Almost everyone in the market went to her side, and 6 people who didn’t lose their consciousness stayed on trying to stop the sacrifice. Just like ‘Lord of the Flies,’ the people in the movie Mist segregated into two groups, one group with right and another group with fault. The novel showed what to do in that kind of situation, and it was just to believe that what one person’s doing is right. Also, Mist showed same answer with the novel ‘Lord of the Flies.’ Evidence from the novel ‘Lord of the Flies,’ that supports the theme is that at the end, the officer came to rescue the children. First, I was very curious about the novel because it was very similar to a movie, and I didn’t know what it was first. Then I realized that the movie, Mist is really alike to novel ‘Lord of the Flies.’ From this entry, I saw more relationships between two stories.

This is a poem of rightness


Human Rightsby Teresa Patterson
Do not forfeit your right to live
With peaceful joy, with tears and laughter,
With purpose and view of the ever after,
Learn how to love and how to give.
Do not forfeit your right to live…

Do not pay homage to rage, to sorrow,
Save a few memories for tomorrow,
In every moment play your part!
For glory do not forsake your heart…
Embrace the NOW with delight!
To love, do not forfeit your right…

Do not forfeit your happiness…
Don’t live your life in token’s shadow
While there is sunshine in the meadows,
Even if you are penniless…
For life itself is pure happiness.

Do not forfeit your right to pray
If obstacles happen on the way,
There is no sin in honest toil…
Sow all your seeds in fertile soil,
Then share your bounty with thy neighbor.
Do not forfeit the joys of labor.

Do not forfeit your right to live.
Cherish your days, then close the chapter,
Before embracing the ever after.
Do not just forget, but forgive.
Thus you can earn your right to live…Forever…

What is the major theme of this novel? Why is this theme important to a teenager living in 2007?

In the novel ‘Lord of the Flies,’ the teenagers who were left in the islands are living like Indian tribes. The teenagers hunt pigs, cut woods, and build shelters. Just like Indian tribes, the teenagers have assemblies, and when there is an assembly, there is a conflict. They always have disagreement and those different thoughts sometimes bring them to violence. All of these situations are most likely to happen in the early centuries. From that point, I ponder that the theme of this novel is evolution in human history not physically but mentally. Getting a leader for their group, building shelters as their home, making spears to hunt, having assembly for their further plans, all of these support the theme of mental evolution in human history. Why would this be important to teenagers today? Let’s think about today’s teenagers holding the theme back for a second. Modern day teenagers have nothing to worry about because it’s already developed today. The teenagers in the novel, ‘Lord of the Flies’ are highly concerned with the theme since nothing’s available in the island. These teenagers have to keep thinking and thinking order to live throughout their surroundings. Let’s look at the modern teenagers now. Mental evolution to modern day teenagers symbolize for advancing in grade, studying hard, and stuffs. These teenagers have nothing to worry about since there is everything under control. Their parents take care of them, and they don’t have to be concerned with something, but some of them are somewhat being alarmed to their surroundings and they try their best on around it. As a result, the theme of mental evolution is very significant (or effective is better word to say), to those teenagers who are living today.
This is a poem related to my first entry, which is about human evolution.

Evolutionby Julie Donner Andersen
Who were you
when you were with her
(before you and I)?

Who were you
when you were her man
(before she died)?

Who are you now?
A different man…
or are you the same?

Stronger and wiser?
Gentler and kinder?
(My, how you’ve changed!)

Would I know you then?
Would she know you now?
How?

You have evolved.
Riddle solved.