“Oh the horror... the horror...”

"Oh the horror... the horror..."

(Kurtz, from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now)

     In Heart of Darkness, while the protagonist (Kurtz) is dying he starts to reflect his life, which was surrounded by bad events caused by him. Apparently, things kept getting worse throughout that novel, just like in Lord Of The Flies. If we think about what Kurtz made with his life, we can relate it to what the children did with the heavenly island where they were. Kurtz was given a beautiful life, and he made it terrible while doing not good things. The same happens in Lord Of The Flies: the boys are "given" a wonderful island and now have the power to do anything they want with it. Instead of enjoying the bright side of it, they turned that paradise into a hell. It really becomes a horror.

Second Choice Assignment - Symbols of "Lord Of The Flies"

The Conch Shell

    In the novel Lord Of The Flies,the conch shell is a symbol of government, order and respect between the boys. In the beginning of the novel, when they still were trying to work together, the shell was important to keep them organized and fair with each other; Who had the shell, also had the right to speak. However, when the boys lost their minds and became aggressive, the conch shell had no meaning for them anymore. As the shell no longer has an impact on the children, civilization, respect, organization and justice also are gone.

 

The Signal Fire

    Since the very beginning of the novel Lord Of The Flies, Ralph and Piggy are very worried about keeping the fire going because they know of its importance for their rescue. The signal fire is a symbol of hope and connection to civilization. Keeping it going is the only way someone in the air or in the ocean can see that there are people on that island. Because some of the boys loose hope that someone will appear, they don't worry about keeping the fire going. It represents the kid's willing of being rescued.

 

 

Piggy's glasses

    The character Piggy from Lord Of The Flies is really smart and his glasses take a really important role in the novel. The boys use it to make fire so that they can be seen by some ship or plane. Piggy's glasses can be a symbol of inteligence and it can represent the power of science within a group of people. They were capable to think and find out a way to make fire using science thoughts. The glasses can also be a symbol of civilization and it can represents attachment to society; They were only able to make the fire because of Piggy's specs, so if they didn't have it, they probably would never be rescued.

 

 

 

Quarter 4 - Lord Of The Flies

* Characters

• Ralph

He seems to be the main character. He is older then most of the kids, and he has an attractive appearance. At first, the children voted for him to be their leader/chief. He used to be respected by all, but he ends up alone after Piggy and Simon's death.

• Piggy

He seems to be some kind of assistant. He is fat and has freckles. He doesn't like to be called Fatty. He is very smart, but suffers some kind of bullying. He is hated by Jack.

• Jack
• He is bossy and gross. He wants to be the chief of the kids. Until now, he is just the hunting leader. He wants to do thing on his own way. He is kind of a second boss for the children. He is starting to be more evil and rude than he was before.
 
• Simon
- He is a skinny, straight hair little boy. He is very kind and helpful.
 
• Sam
• and Eric - Twins; survivors. They are always together, and the other boys treat them as a single person.
• Roger
• and Maurice - Jack's "allies". They are as evil, gross and rude as Jack.
 
• Robert
• He plays the part of an animal, and the boys pretend to hunt him.

* Synopsis

Ralph and Piggy go to where Jack and his tribe are.

They eat meat there, and even get envolved and excited about the dancing and singing with Jack's boys.

The "beast" appears, and they torture and kill "it".

The "beast" was actually Simon, who was going to tell them that there was no monster - it was only a dead man.

Ralph and Piggy feel embarassed because of their act.

Jack's tribe goes to where Ralph is and steal Piggy's glasses. Now they don't have ways to make the fire going.

Ralph, Piggy and the twins go again to where Jack is to try to tell him that the fire is essencial.

Roger throws something at Piggy, killing him.

Jack forces the twins to stay with him, and now he wants to hunt Ralph.

Ralph run away until a officer comes and talk to him.

The officer rescue all of them.

* Statement of Themes
"Lord of The Flies" is about survival, control, teamwork, darkness, and civilization. Also, we can note some darkness in the story because of the conflicts that are happening. The kids are trying to find out how they will live while they are waiting for rescue. At first, they thought that the best way to make it is having a leader and listening to his plans. But, at this point, tension and death are added sorely to the story.

* Setting

The story takes place in a desert island while it is happening the World War 2.There are no civilization and no grown-ups, which forces the kids to find a way to find food, get organized and figure out a way to survive on that island all by theirself.

* Point of View

The story is told in 3rd person omniscient point of view. It makes the story easier to understand, because it is shown everything that is happening from a general point of view. If it was told in 1st person, we would be reading just the point of view of the character.

* Notables about the writer's style

The author writes the story in a realistic way. He doesn't appearr interesting in brings comedy and fun to the story. He is very serious.

Quarter 3 - Lord Of The Flies

* Characters

• Ralph - He seems to be the main character. He is older then most of the kids, and he has an attractive appearance. The children voted for him to be their leader/chief. He is respect by all.
• Piggy - He seems to be some kind of assistant. He is fat and has freckles. He doesn't like to be called Fatty. He is very smart, but suffers some kind of bullying. He is hated by Jack.
• Jack - He is bossy and gross. He wants to be the chief of the kids. Until now, he is just the hunting leader. He wants to do thing on his own way. He is kind of a second boss for the children. He is starting to be more evil and rude than he was before.
• Simon - He is a skinny, straight hair little boy. He is very kind and helpful.
• Sam and Eric - Twins; survivors. They are always together, and the other boys treat them as a single person.
• Roger and Maurice - Jack's "allies". They are as evil, gross and rude as Jack.
• Robert - He plays the part of an animal, and the boys pretend to hunt him.

* Synopsis

• The twins, who were supposed to watch the signal fire, fall asleep.
• When they wake up, they see "the beast".
• After they tell to Ralph what they saw, Ralph decides on a meeting that they are going on a expedition to find the beast.
• Only Piggy and the littluns stay.
• Jack is commanding the expedition. They go to the only place in the island that Jack (and everyone else) has never been before.
• They find a cave, but only Ralph and Jack explore it.
• The other boys start to play and have fun, forgeting the reason of the expedition.
• Ralph gets angry, and tell them that they need to return to the other montain to rebuild the fire.
• Jack wants to hunt a pig while they continue to search for the beast.
• The boys agree. They track a boar. Even Ralph is excited about it.
• Ralph flings his spear at the boar and hits it. He gets so happy about it, but Jack says that the boar was already bleeding before Ralph hits it.
• The boar runs away, but the boys continue excited about hunting.
• They start to play a game, where Robert is the animal that they will hunt.
• The kids start to forget that it is just a game and begin to hurt Robert for real, who tries to get away from them.
• They stop and Jack says that on the next time, they could use a littlun istead of Robert.
• The kids laugh. Ralph remind them that it was just a game.
• Simon volunters to go back and tell Piggy that they won't return that soon.
• They decide to continue searching for the beast only in the morning, when it won't be dark anymore.
• Jack, Ralph and Roger goes for a hunt climbing the montain.
• Jack goes to the top of the montain alone, and goes back saying that he saw a monster.
• Ralph and Roger go check. They then see a large specter with the shape of a giant ape, making a horrible sound.
• They get horrifield and go back to tell the other boys.
• The next morning, everyone gets together on the beach. They are all terrifield because of the beast.
• Jack says that Ralph is a coward and sugests that he cannot be the chief anymore. The kids don't agree.
• Jack gets angry and leaves saying that whoever wants to join him, is welcome. Some kids follow him.
• Ralph is confused and don't know what to do. Simon suggests that they go back to the montain and search for the beast, but most of the kids are afraid.
• They make another fire, this time on the beach.
• Many of the boys leaves at night to join Jack's group.
• Piggy says to Ralph that they are better without that kids.
• In another part of the beach, Jack says to the boys who followed him that he is the chief. They kill a sow and put its head as an offer to the beast. They get scary with the dark blood of it and run away.
• While Ralph and Piggy are chatting, Jack and the hunters come and start to destroy, and steal things from Ralph's group.
• Simon goes to that beautiful place he has been before. But now, instead of the beauty, he finds the sow’s head, and gets mesmerized by it.
• The head talks to him in the voice of "Lord Of The Flies", telling him that he would never scape and that they would have some fun.
• Simon faints.

* Statement of Themes

So far "Lord of The Flies" is about survival, control, teamwork and civilization. Also, we can start to note some darkness in the story because of the conflicts that are happening. The kids are trying to find out how they will live while they are waiting for rescue. At first, they thought that the best way to make it is having a leader and listening to his plans. But, at this point, tension and death are added sorely to the story.

* Setting

The story takes place in a desert island while it is happening the World War 2.There are no civilization and no grown-ups, which forces the kids to find a way to find food, get organized and figure out a way to survive on that island all by theirself.

* Point of View

 

The story is told in 3rd person omniscient point of view. It makes the story easier to understand, because it is shown everything that is happening from a general point of view. If it was told in 1st person, we would be reading just the point of view of the character.

 

* Notables about the writer's style

 

The author writes the story in a realistic way. He doesn't appearr interesting in brings comedy and fun to the story. He is very serious.

Choice Assignment - Songs connected to Lord Of The Flies

• Song: "Island In The Sun"; Artist: Weezer; Setting: When Ralph, Piggy and Simon are working and the littluns are not helping, just playing. - Chapter 4.

        

 " On an island in the sun

We'll be playing and having fun

And it makes me feel so fine I can't control my brain "

 

This part of the lyrics can be connected to the beginning of the novel, where the kids (most of the littluns) "can't control (their) brains" to make some work, such as building huts, because they just want to play and enjoy the island.

 

• Song: "Rasta Courage"; Artist: SOJA; Setting: Ralph point of view and personality - Specially chapters 1 and 2.

 " Nah give up my faith!
...I and I will strive until
the end of my days, Rasta Courage "

 

This part of the lyrics can be connected to Ralph's faith that they will be rescued, specially at the beginning of the novel. He always says to the others that they will be found, and he seems to be almost the only kid who keeps insisting on setting the fire  so that some ship or plane can find them, and doing some work. He shows he is courageous, "(striving) until the end of his days" until they are rescued.

 

•  Song: "Drop The World"; Artist: Lil' Wayne; Setting: Jack's personality and his fascination for hunting - All over the novel.

" I got ice in my veins, blood in my eyes

Hate in my heart, love in my mind "

This part of the lyrics can be connected to Jack's personality. First of all, he is very rude and hateful; he doesn't care about other's feelings and thoughts. "(He) got ice in (his) veins; Hate in (his) heart". It can also be connected to his passion for hunting. He is obsessed with that. He seems to enjoy the bloodiness that he make when he hunts. "Blood in (his) eyes; Love in (his) mind".

Second Quarter - Lord Of The Flies

* Characters

• Ralph - He seems to be the main character. He is older then most of the kids, and he has an attractive appearance. The children voted for him to be their leader/chief. He is respect by all.
• Piggy - He seems to be some kind of assistant. He is fat and has freckles. He doesn't like to be called Fatty. He is very smart, but suffers some kind of bullying. He is hated by Jack.
• Jack - He is bossy and gross. He wants to be the chief of the kids. Until now, he is just the hunting leader. He wants to do thing on his own way. He is kind of a second boss for the children. He is starting to be more evil and rude than he was before.
• Simon - He is a skinny, straight hair little boy. He is very kind and helpful.
• Sam and Eric - Twins; survivors. They are always together, and the other boys treat them as a single person.
• Roger and Maurice - Jack's "allies". They are as evil, gross and rude as Jack.

* Synopsis

• Jack trails a pig through the thick jungle, but it ends up scaping.
• Ralph works on building huts for the younger boys to live in. The only kid that is helping him is Simon, the other boys only want to play.
• Ralph gets realy irritated because of many problems they are having at this point, such as: The kids get excited by the plans they make at meetings, but they are not working on get them done; The smaller boys can't sleep because of the nightmares.
• Jack only cares about hunting a pig and don't give attention on Ralph's concerns.
• Ralph and Jack end up having an arguement.
• Simon goes for a walk by himself, helps the "littluns", and then he finds a beautiful and quiet place, where he stays a while.
• The "littluns" are concerned about the beastie, and fear it.
• Roger and Maurice torment some of the "littluns" by stomping on the sand castle they had build and by throwing stones at the boys.
• Jack pints his face and goes with other boys to hunt a pig. However, he should be taking care of the fire.
• Ralph and Piggy see a ship. But as there is no fire, the ship is not able to see signs of life on the island and goes away.
• Jack and the hunters come back carrying a dead pig.
• Ralph and Piggy tell the hunters they are irresponsible.
• Jack slaps Piggy, breaking one of the lenses of his glasses. He never apologizes.
• They all eat the pig by the fire.
• Ralph calls for a meeting to put the group back into line.
• At the meeting, Ralph talks about the disorganization of the kids. And he talks about the beastie.
• One of the littluns tells that he has actually seen a beast.
• The meeting plunges into chaos.
• Ralph tells to Piggy and Simon that he wants to relinquish leadership of the group.
• Piggy tells him that the group needs him.

* Statement of Themes

So far "Lord of The Flies" is about survival, control, teamwork and civilization. Also, we can start to note some darkness in the story because of the conflicts that are happening. The kids are trying to find out how they will live while they are waiting for rescue. At first, they thought that the best way to make it is having a leader and listening to his plans. But, at this point, they are not listening very much to their chief (Ralph), bringing some kind of tension to the story.

* Setting

 

The story takes place in a desert island while it is happening the World War 2.There are no civilization and no grown-ups, which forces the kids to find a way to find food, get organized and figure out a way to survive on that island all by theirself.

    

* Point of View

The story is told in 3rd person omniscient point of view. It makes the story easier to understand, because it is shown everything that is happening from a general point of view. If it was told in 1st person, we would be reading just the point of view of the character.

* Notables about the writer's style

The author writes the story in a realistic way. He doesn't appearr interesting in brings comedy and fun to the story. He is very serious.

Wordle - Lord of The Flies

First Quarter - Lord of The Flies

* Characters

• Ralph - He seems to be the main character. He is older then most of the kids, and he has an attractive appearance. The children voted for him to be their leader/chief. He is respect by all.
• Piggy - He seems to be some kind of assistant. He is fat and has freckles. He doesn't like to be called Fatty. He seems to feel forgotten and wronger by Ralph when he starts to "hang out" with Jack. He is smart, but suffers some kind of bullying.
• Jack - He is bossy and gross. He wants to be the leader, but the kids prefer Ralph. He wants to do thing on his own way. He is kind of a second boss for the kids.
• Simon - He is chosen by Ralph to go for a expedition with him and Jack. He is a skinny, straight hair little boy.
• Sam and Eric - Twins; survivors.

* Synopsis

• A plane falls down in an island.
• The survives are children. There are no grown-ups.
• At first, there are only two kids together (Ralph and Piggy)
• They find a shell and use the sound of it to atract other possible survivors.
• The children get together. All of them vote for a chief. Ralph wons against Jack.
• Ralph, Jack and Simon go for a expedition to make sure the place that they are is an island.
• Jack can't hunt a pig.
• They come back and explain to the others that they are on an island without any adults. They have to watch out for theirselfs and wait untill they are rescued.
• It is decided that who has the shell, also has the right to speak.
• They make a fire to make it easier for people to localize them.

* Statement of Themes

     So far "Lord of The Flies" is about survival, control and teamwork. The kids are trying to find out how they will live while they are waiting for rescue. Apparently, they think that the best way to make it is having a leader and listening to his plans. The chief Ralph is respected by the other kids. He seems to know how to be on control of everything. They now have to work together until they are rescued.

* Setting

    

     "... there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size, and attractive appearance" This setting is about the way Ralph is being seen. It is important because it shows some of the reasons why he is respected by the other children. Everyone pays attention at him because of these qualities. If he wasn't older, good looking or brave, I'm pretty sure  that the kids wouldn't have vote for him to be their chief.

* Point of View

    

     The story is told in 3rd person omniscient point of view. It makes the story easier to understand, because it is shown everything that is happening from a general point of view. If it was told in 1st person, we would be reading just the point of view of the character.

* Notables about the writer's style

     The author writes the story in a realistic way. He doesn't appearr interesting in brings comedy and fun to the story. He is serious and I bet he has something to say with this book that I may find out reading the next quarters.

 

 

Introducing Myself

Hello! :)
My name is Ana Maria. I am an exchange student from Brazil. I am living in Canada for the next 3 months. I like listening to all types of songs. I also love hanging out with my friends, family and boyfriend. I miss them so much. And I also miss the beach! I am reading Lord of the Flies. It has been really challenging for me to read this book. Until now, I am finding it a little bit strange, but good.