Choice assignment #2

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Choice assignment #2---Verbal- visual

V1

In the novel ''Lord of the Flies'', a group of boys are abandoned on a deserted and humid island during a raging war. The boys don't have any scientific machines. Nonetheless, they need fire. Golding describes a scene about making fire: '' His specs --- use them as burning glasses!'' Piggy was surrounded before he could back away. ( p40, Lord of the Flies) Without a doubt, fire is the origin and symbol of human civilization. Piggy's glasses symbolize the power of science and wisdom in that the glasses can make fire. We can also find the significance of the glasses when the savages effectively steal the power to make fire and leave Ralph's group helpless. In summary, Piggy's glasses represent human civilization and the power of science.

V2

The adventure novel '' Lord of the Flies'' describes that a group of English boys are trapped on an isolated and tropical island. When a boy tell the others that he sees a beast, all of the boys are frightened. Then they decide to find the beast. However, what they found was surprising, ''As Simon thought this, he turned to the poor broken thing that sat stinking by his side. The beast was harmless and horrible.'' ( P 162 ,Lord of the Flies) To my surprise, the beast that are scared of is actually a dead parachutist. It symbolizes that what people are frightened of isn't something evil and terrible, but rather people's own selves and other human beings. For instance, Jack's desire for power is very horrible and it influences Jack's words and actions. In conclusion, because the beast is human, the boys are actually afraid of themselves.

V 3

The vision of youth culture in A Clockwork Orange written by Anthony Burgess is entirely negative and horrible. Deltoid is the protagonist, Alex’s Post-Corrective Adviser who tries to stop Alex's violence. Deltoid said, ''What gets into you all? We study the problem and we've been studying it for damn well near a century, yes, but we get no further with our studies. You've got a good home here, good loving parents, you've got not too bad of a brain. Is it some devil that crawls inside you?'' ( P30, A Clockwork Orange ) It is true that Alex is a dangerous and ruthless criminal. However, all people have natural characters which include good and evil. Even science tries to take control of humanity's destructive impulses. They haven't solved this problem yet. The dark, the destructive and the good all can be the parts of who we are. It is better that we accept it rather than changing it. In conclusion, free will is important and we cannot really control or change humanity's natural personality. 

 

V4

The main character Alex in this novel '' A Clockwork Orange'' is violent and wicked. However he loves classical music. When he is forced to watch the violent movie, there is a scene, ''Then I noticed, in all my pain and sickness, what music it was that like crackled and boomed on the sound-track, and it was Ludwing van, the last movement of the Fifth Symphony, and I creeched like bezoomny at that,'' ''Stop!''(P 85, A Clockwork Orange) In the readers' mind, Alex is an evil and bad boy. To my surprise, after he becomes a good man ,everything changes but his interest in classical music is still strong. It demonstrates that the outside appearance and personality may be changed but the inside natural characteristics remain. Accordingly, the personal character remains and it is unnecessary and impossible to change them.