(1) Type two excerpts from Lord of the Flies (pp. 7-75) and include their page numbers.
- The first excerpt must display a revealing dialogue exchange between characters. What is not being said that should be said? What might a character's words be masking/covering? What do these words reveal about a character? What is being heard or not heard by the intended listener? What could/should be said that is not? Is Golding accurate in his depiction of the speech patterns of young boys?
- The second excerpt must show masterful use of language to show--not tell--the reader a setting or action. What sense(s) is Golding stimulating? (see, hear, touch, taste, perceive/feel)
(2) Type your initial ideas for what your group will do for Project 2090, which will be held from April 14-20. You get wisdom from elders, then share it with the class, presenting for 45 minutes. To whom will you speak? What will you ask these wise, venerable, respectable interviewees? Will you have up to 15 minutes of filmed material? What sort of handout will you have? What sort of powerpoint slides will you have? (leave the republican vs. democrat stuff out)
- How, specifically, will we prevent WWIII (LOTF) and dystopia (1984)?
- How will we, as a society, heed the urges of our collective reason and/or superego?
- How will we remain unique, if that's possible?
- How will we be better Americans?
- How can we think for ourselves?
(3) What are you thinking for your film deconstruction paper? Are you leaning toward comparing the two LOTF film versions, or selecting your own single film to deconstruct? (I saw Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist last night--and could definitely deconstruct many aspects of it.)
- How might a director and producer make LOTF differently than another?
- Or, what might you say about a single film, if that is your route?
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Pd.1
....He nodded at Ralph. "I'll come." "And I-" Jack snatched from behind hmi a sizable sheath-knife and clouted it into a trunk. The buzzrose and died away. Piggy Stirred. "i'll come." Ralph turned to him. "You're no good on a job like this." "all the same-" "We dont want you," said Jack, Flatly. "three's enough"....
This was pretty much telling piggy he isnt good enough to all the manly things that he is just good to the mom figure (take care of the kids) he is just good to be there little *****
Noah knows some old people from his church we will interview. and the handouts could be of a future newspaper article on how america has changed. we will have a powerpoint along with a video of the interivees.
I will definitly select one of my movies just so i can watch it as many times as i would like to. this way i can disect the living crap out of it and dont miss anything.
pd. 1st
Jack and his hunters come up the mountain with Erik N Sam caring the carcass of a dead pig. Their chanting and singing. "We'll go hunting every day-" Ralph spoke again, hoarsely. He had not moved. "You let the fire go out." This repetition made Jack uneasy. He looked at the twins and then back to Ralph. "We had to have them in the hunt," he said, "or there wouldn't have been enough for a ring." "The fire's only been out an hour or two. We can light up again-" Ralph repeated,"You let the fire go out."
Ralph is clearly upset and angered with Jack and his hunters for letting the fire go out when he spotted a ship and they had no signal smoke. Jack doesn't understand the situation that just happened and acts puzzled why Ralph is so upset. Ralph is so mad at Jack that all the can do is repeat the same line. He is trying to say that Jack is selfish and stupid. All he cares about is hunting and now they had a chance to be rescued and he ruined it for all the kids. Ralph doesn't want to just flat out yell at Jack because he is a leader and realizes that he has to keep his cool or else the other kids might panic that they won't ever be rescued. Ralph should have flat told Jack that what he did was wrong and stupid.
pd 1 pg 24
"I'll come."
"And I-"
Piggy stirred.
"I'll come."
Ralph tuned to him.
"You're no good on a job like this."
"All the same-"
"We don't want you," said Jack, flatly. "Three's enough"
Piggy's glasses flashed.
"I was with him when he found the conch. I was with him before anyone else."
This excerpt can relate to everyone because everyone has been denied a chance to do something because they were judge right away before the others know what they could really do and how they could be of help. Piggy tries to stand up for himself and tells them that he could help and it was him who found the conch, but Jack does not give him the time of day. I think Jack feels like he needs to act all tough and be mean to Piggy because he is scared and insecure about what he is going to do to survive on this island. I dont think there could be anymore Piggy could say because Jack wont listen to him anyways and he knows he is that kid who has never gotten a chance and never will. Golding knows this is how the real world of young kids are and illistrates it right on.
*pg 43
The sun in the west was drop of burning gold that slid nearer and nearer the sill of the world. All at once they were aware of the evening as the end of light and warmth.
I can totally see that sunset Golding just described in my head right now. He is able to make the reader see, feel and be there. Instead of saying just the plain old horizon line he uses "the sill of the world" which allows more imaganative thinking for the reader.
Which film, Josh M.? I'm intrigued.
Love your handout idea. Never seen that before.
Will Erickson
Period 1
"Then," went on piggy, "that boy-I forgot-"
"you're talking too much," said Jack Merredew. "Shut up, fatty."
Laughter arose.
"He's not Fatty," cried Ralph, "his real name's piggy!"
"Piggy!"
"Piggy!"
"Oh Piggy!"
1. Jack is being a jerk by antagonizing piggy the whole time even though he knows that piggy does not like to be called that at all. Then ralph tries to defend him in a way but seems almost as he gets into he lets go becuase he does not want any of the boys to judge him differently it seems like. He almost wants to stand up for piggy and even does a little bit, but it seems as if he kinda cares about his reputation more. Jack is very outspoken and really says all that he needs to say.
Piggy and Ralph are walking through the the forest as if they were stuffed in a girls closest without a muchate to find they're way through. Then they stumple slightly apon a rigid course conhe. That looks as if you were to grab it wrong it could slice your hand open like cheifs knife.
Not fazed by it's appearance ralph picks it up and blows the conche tell his face turend into an apple and made a prodigous noise that could be heard across the island.
2. For project 2090 we are going to ad a range of people that seem to have different backrounds so that we can try and capture everyones ideas from a different point of view. We will ask them things such as, What did you wanna be when you were young, What was your favorite thing to do when you were young, what was your first job, If you had to tell the young people one thing to do what woudl you tell them, along those lines of questions. I am thinking that we will have up to 15 min. at least of video. We will probably just have a normal hand out of things giving what we are talking about in order. We may not have a powerpoint if we can just get enough video. It is still really early to tell so im not exactly sure yet.
3. I have not made up my mind yet on what one I am doing. If the right movie jumps out at me I'll probably end up doing that one but as of right now I think im just going to compare the LOTF films. Even though I am kind of leaning on the film the " Little Mermaid".
Pd. 1
“There was a ship.”
Jack, faced at once with too many awful implications, ducked away from them. He laid a hand on the pig and drew his knife. Ralph brought his arm down, fist clenched, and his voice shook.
“There was a ship. Out there. You said you’d keep the fire going and you let it out!” He took a step toward jack, who turned and faced him.
“They might have seen us. We might have gone home--”
“I was chief, and you were going to do what I said. You talk. But you can’t even build huts—then you go off hunting and let out the fire--”
He turned away silent for a moment. Then his voice came again on a peak of feeling.
“There was a ship--”
“The job was too much we needed everyone.”
Ralph turned.
“You could have had everyone when the shelters were finished. But you had to hunt--”
“We needed meat.”
After a spat between piggy and jack, jack tried to apologize.
“I’m sorry. About the fire, I mean. There. I--”
“—I apologize.”
They waited for an appropriately decent answer. Yet Ralph’s throat refused to pass one. He resented, as an addition to Jack’s misbehavior, this verbal trick. The fire was dead, the ship was gone. Could they not see? Anger instead of decency passed his throat.
“That was a dirty trick.”
They were silent on the mountain-top while the opaque look appeared in Jack’s eyes and passed away. Ralph’s final word was an in gracious mutter.
There is clearly tension between Jack and Ralph. Jack is always going by passion and Ralph is following logic and instinct to survive. Jack wants to hunt and find food, they do need food but they don’t necessarily need meat. Ralph wants what is best for the boys and wants to have shelter for them; they need some type of protection. Jack is like a father he doesn’t really know how to care for children, and only has primal instincts, where as Ralph is like a mother, he has a nurturing and caring aspect to him, he knows somewhat how to take care of the children. There is a lot more behind this fight then you can see Jack made a promise and didn’t keep it; Ralph gets angry because if jack would have kept it they could have been rescued. Jack seems to be very ignorant when it comes to trying to survive on an island and take care of more then just jack. Ralph is thinking of everyone, not just himself, he was chosen to be a leader for a reason. Golding has chosen the perfect language for the boys and has portrayed them magnificently. They have the right amount of swearing, and lack of vocabulary, they are very young in knowledge, which is precisely what you see young children having when they talk.
pd.1
Merridew turned to Ralph.
"Aren't there any grownups?
"No."
"Then we'll have to look after ourselves."
Secure on the other side of Ralph, Piggy spoke timidly.
"That's why Ralph made a meeting. So as we can decide what to do. We've heard names. That's Johnny. Those two they're twins, Sam 'n Eric. Which is Eric? You?
No you're Sam"
"I'm Sam"
"'n I'm Eric."
"We'd better all have names," said Ralph, "so I'm, Ralph"
"We got most names," said Piggy. "Got 'em just now."
"Kids' names," said Merridew. "Why should I be Jack? I'm Merridew.
"Then," went on Piggy, "that boy I forget"
"You're talking too much," said Jack Merridew. "Shut up, Fatty."
Laughter arose.
"He's not Fatty," cried Ralph, "his real name's Piggy!
"Piggy!"
"Piggy!"
"Piggy!"
"Oh, Piggy!"(pg.21)
Piggy's real name is never said and no one sticks up for Piggy and Piggy doesn't say anything to stick up for himself. Another meaning for why Ralph reveals Piggy's nickname is because I think Ralph just wants to make the boys and laugh and look cool but really Ralph is not like that. These words reveal that Ralph trys to be the "cool" one to make the boys laugh but really he is nice deep down. Ralph true side is not being heard in this part of the book but if you read on you get to know how he really is. Golding is accurate in the speech patterns of boys because alot of them are still very immature, yet they are stepping up and becoming leaders like Ralph and Jack.
"The droppings were warm. They lay piled among turned earth. They were olive green, smooth, and they steamed a little."(pg.49) Golding is stimulating sight, touch, feel.
pd.1
Merridew turned to Ralph.
"Aren't there any grownups?
"No."
"Then we'll have to look after ourselves."
Secure on the other side of Ralph, Piggy spoke timidly.
"That's why Ralph made a meeting. So as we can decide what to do. We've heard names. That's Johnny. Those two they're twins, Sam 'n Eric. Which is Eric? You?
No you're Sam"
"I'm Sam"
"'n I'm Eric."
"We'd better all have names," said Ralph, "so I'm, Ralph"
"We got most names," said Piggy. "Got 'em just now."
"Kids' names," said Merridew. "Why should I be Jack? I'm Merridew.
"Then," went on Piggy, "that boy I forget"
"You're talking too much," said Jack Merridew. "Shut up, Fatty."
Laughter arose.
"He's not Fatty," cried Ralph, "his real name's Piggy!
"Piggy!"
"Piggy!"
"Piggy!"
"Oh, Piggy!"(pg.21)
Piggy's real name is never said and no one sticks up for Piggy and Piggy doesn't say anything to stick up for himself. Another meaning for why Ralph reveals Piggy's nickname is because I think Ralph just wants to make the boys and laugh and look cool but really Ralph is not like that. These words reveal that Ralph trys to be the "cool" one to make the boys laugh but really he is nice deep down. Ralph true side is not being heard in this part of the book but if you read on you get to know how he really is. Golding is accurate in the speech patterns of boys because alot of them are still very immature, yet they are stepping up and becoming leaders like Ralph and Jack.
"The droppings were warm. They lay piled among turned earth. They were olive green, smooth, and they steamed a little."(pg.49) Golding is stimulating sight, touch, feel.
Excellent visual, Sara B. Golding has truly stimulated me, too, with visual cues. We need authors to do that for us--just like we need painters, eh Josh B.?
Painting = 1000 words.
1000 words = One billion paintings.
I was thinking about maybe doing the movie fireproof..its a low production movie but its got alot of symbolism and it goes deep into thought on not just someones faith but how they live there life...but im keeping my options open right now but that is my first choice
pd 1 part 2
He came at least to a place, where more sunshine fell. Since they had not so far to go for light the creepers had woven a great mat that hung at the side of an open space in the jungle; for here a patch of rock came close to the surface and would not allow more then little plants and ferns to grow. The whole space was walled with dark aromatic bushes, and was a bowl of heat and light. A great tree, fallen across one corner, leaned against the trees that still stood and a rapid climber flaunted red and yellow sprays right to the top.
Now the sunlight had lifted clear of the open space and withdrawn from the sky. Darkness poured out, submerging the ways between the trees till they were dim and strange as the bottom of the sea. The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers glimmering under the light that pricked down from the first stars. Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
What is the overall message of Fireproof? My wife saw it with some girlfriends; I have not. Do the makers of this film want to influence you, Josh M.?
Pd. 1
#1
Page 70
“We’ll go hunting every day”
Ralph spoke again hoarsely. He hand not moved.
“You let the fire go out.”
This repetition made Jack uneasy. He looked at the twins and then back at Ralph.
“We had to have them in the hunt,” he said, “or there wouldn’t have been enough for a ring.”
He flushed, conscious of a fault.
“The fire’s only been out an hour or two. We can light up again…”
He noticed Ralph’s scarred nakedness, and the somber silence of all four of them. He sought, charitable in his happiness, to include them in the thing that had happened. His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
Ralph is finally realizing what kind of person Jack is and it has dawned on him that he can never relay on Jack for anything important. Jack is showing how blood thirsty, cruel, and ignorant he really is. The only thing that Jack has cared about and will ever care about is the hunting and getting his “drink” of blood. Ralph is for the well being of the other boys and getting everyone off the island. While Jack is only concerned about what makes him and his hunters happy and could care less if they ever got off the island.
Page 56
He picked his way up the scar, passed the great rock where Ralph had climbed on the first morning, then turned off to his right among the trees. He walked with an accustomed tread through the acres of fruit trees, where the least energetic could find an easy if unsatisfying meal. Flower and fruit grew together on the same tree and everywhere was the scent of ripeness and the blooming of a million bees at pasture. Here the littluns who had run after him caught up with him. They talked, cried out unintelligibly, lugged him toward the trees. The, amid the roar of bees in the afternoon sunlight, Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach, pulled off the choicest form up in the foliage, passed them back down the endless, outstretched hands. When he had satisfied them he paused and looked round. The littluns watch him inscrutably over the double handfuls of ripe fruit.
The senses Golding is using are sight, sound, and smell. The fruit and flowers are for the smell. The sound of the buzzing bees in the back ground, and the sight of the little boys clamoring after him and reaching out for the fruit also help paint a picture.
#2
For our group project, I’m guessing we will be talking to out fellow group members elders and video taping their responses. I am sure most of our presentation will be about the 15 min video and how we will analyze their answers to our questions. I think our slides will be simple and giving the points. The project should never be about the slides and handouts; the project is about how well we show our ideas. The over all solution from keeping the world into going to total chaos is keeping the younger generations knowledgeable. If we are ignorant to what is going on around us then we are helpless and may never “evolve.” To remain unique is a harder problem. To be unique is also to be different, and to be different, well that’s just to be an outcast. If we continue to outcast certain people then we are making them more powerful because we are making them unique. To become better Americans and to think for out selves, I think we need to make our selves as educated as possible. In order to think for our selves we need to know what actually can think about. If we are only told that we can only think about certain things, we end up thinking in a circle.
#3
Honestly, I haven’t really thought about that project yet. I am thinking about leaning towards watching my own movie but, that also takes time to watch a movie 3 times. Therefore, I think that watching both LOTF movies will be an easier essay because we are watching both movies in class. I also think that a comparison paper would be easier to write than a creative one. Then again, a creative essay would be more fun and you could get more involved in the essay. If I do pick a movie, I would probably pick a movie that could have different meanings. I would probably base my essay on the symbolism that the movie portrays.
pd. 1st
As Simon walks to his hideout.
A great tree, fallen across one corner, leaned against the trees that still stood and a rapid climber flaunted red and yellow sprays right to the top. He stopped and looked around. Nothing moved but a pair of gaudy butterflies that danced round each other in the hot air. The deep sea breaking miles away on the reef made an undertone less perceptible than the susurration of the blood. The slope of the bars of honey-colored sunlight decreased; they slid up the bushes, passed over the green candle-like buds, moved up toward the canopy, and darkness thickened under the trees.
Golding is stimulating our sense of sight when he describes the jungle where Simon is at. He also helps us hear the ocean as it rushes and hits the beach. We can see the butterflies as they dance and see the sun as it sets on the horizon.
We are considering making a video for our presentation. Noah has some grandparents we can interview and we probably will go out to Bethany Meadows to interview others ,too. We will ask them questions like how was the world different when they were our age. What advice do they have for us as we become adults. Is there anything they wish they would have done differently in their lives. We will probably make a powerpoint showing the pictures of our elderly interviewees and right a quote that they said. We will have to discuss and think before we act so their isn't a World War III. We have to have a balance between reason and passion. So that the devil or angle on our shoulder can think together for what is best for us. We have to continue to have democracy and go to school so we become smarter and think for ourselves and not become a dictatorship.
I'm thinking about watching my own film for this paper. I'm not sure what one yet, maybe a war movie. I would say that most movies are pretty good the way they are and I wouldn't change much, but I haven't picked a film yet so I'm unsure.
Period 1
(page 42)
"I got the conch, Piggy said indignantly. "You let me speak!" "The conch doesnt count on top of the mountain," said Jack, "so you shut up." "I got the conch in my hand." "Put on green branches," said Maurice. "That's the best way to make smoke." "I got the conch--" Jack turned fiercely. "You shut up!" Piggy wilted. Ralph took the conch from him and looked round the circle of boys.
Jack and even Ralph are saying things like this constantly to Piggy. Piggy is hurt by it, he believes he should be allowed to speak because he has helped them and he found the conch. Whoever holds the conch is allowed to speak but yet when Piggy grabs it and wants to say something they yell at him to shutup. This shows me that these british kids are just like us modernly in the U.S. People never listen to people who are often rejected by society. I am to blame for this too. But, its hurtful and it shows how a person really is. Jack wants things to be his way and Ralph wants his another and nobody is getting along. They should give Piggy a chance since, he is the one who found the conch and keeps a headcount on the kids. Yes! Golding is almost perfect especially at the ages of like a young boy say, 8 to 15. Kids are not nice to each to that person if he isnt cool. It still happens today. People do things to be cool and young boys often hurt each others feelings especially when its the ones who think they are cool, dissing the ones who dont have a single physical trait.
(Page 44)
"The heart of the flame leapt nimbly across the gap between the trees and then went swiming and flaring along the whole row of them. Beaneath the capering boys a quarter of a mile square of forest was savage with smoke and flame. The separate noises of the merged into a drummer roll that seemed to shake the mountain."
Well after reading this excerpt I can picture all of this. Obviously sight was the sense that was stimulating to me. It is great writing by William Golding because i can see all of that in my head. He was very discriptive. Great writing technique, indeed.
Im kind of bare on ideas for 2090 but if we can use a mac, then for sure i want to do a video. I want to get my grandma in there, she would enjoy getting attention from us lol. I think we should all just get one elder that we pick and interview them so everyone can get someone they want in it. I would really like to have at least 15 minutes. How can we think for ourselves? Well its easy, if its talking about like me, but as a country i dont know. Just do what u want to do and make decisions for yourself. As a country, i dont think its possible, were always helping other countries out, and not staying in touch with our own problems. How will we remain unique? The U.S is unique already, we got all our freedoms, we elect our own presidents, we have a black president, and we are the mixing pot of the world. And yet we are strong and yet still on top of other countries economy wise and socially. People normally like us. For us as a person to be unique do not let people influence you is my belief. You have your on mind and you can do something spectacular by yourself. How you going to come up with your own ideas if u plainly just want to do what other people do.
I am going to do other movies. I have more interest in other things then LOTF and i could write a better paper. I dont know which movies yet though. But i know if i do ones i like and understand more obviously it'll be a better paper. I will say about a single film. I am planning on first, whats the point being given to the watcher. What your supposed to learn from it, not just what happens. Also maybe why do the characters take that path they do. And why its important to me and relate to my life, if i can.
pd. 1
p.24-25
1.)
Ralph: "Look. You can't come."
Piggy: "You told em'. After what I said. After I said I didn't want-"
Ralph: "What on earth are you talking about?"
Piggy: "About being called Piggy; an' I said not to tell and then you went straight out-"
Ralph: "Better Piggy than Fatty. And anyway, I'm sorry if you feel like that. Now go back, Piggy, and take names. That's your job. So long."
Piggy needs to stand up for himself more. He has the brains to do some good things but he lets the guys walk all over him instead. These words show how much Ralph is in control and Piggy's struggles being accepted. Piggy wants some control but is shut down every time. It makes the listener wonder if Piggy will ever get his way. It's as if Piggy will never find his time to shine, instead just be disrespected. Ralph just needs to accept Piggy and know that he could be of some help hunting or doing something else. Ralph shouldn't be so stubborn. Yes Golding is accurate because boys that don't have good physical characteristics are not always respected and noticed like Piggy. Piggy does talk a lot which seems annoying to the rest of the boys but it's a prime example of a kid trying to fit in when it's incredibly difficult in a judgemental world.
p. 57
2.)
"Now the sunlight had lifted clear of the open space and withdrawn from the sky. Darkness poured out, submergeding the ways between the trees til they were dim and strange as the bottom of the sea. The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers glimmering under the light that pricked down from the first stars. Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island."
Golding gives the sense that the suns rays first shine bright then darkness captivates the jungle. The candle-buds try and catch any light they can to bloom while their scent draws your attention with its undeniable beautiful smell. It creates a sense of delicacy and softness as opposed to the darkness and fierceness of the jungle at this time. The smell took possession of the island, meaning nothing else matters.
Pd. 1
Page 32
Ralph cleared his throat and spoke.
“We’re on an island. We’ve been on the mountaintop and seen water all round. We saw no houses, no smoke, no footprints, no boats, no people. We’re on an uninhabited island with no other people”
Jack broke in.
“All the same you need an army-for hunting. Hunting pigs-“
“Yes. There are pigs on the island”
“we saw-“
“Squealing-“
“It broke away-“
“Before I could kill it-but-next time!”
Jack slammed his knife into a trunk and looked round challengingly.
This passage shows the reader a lot about the different characters. Ralph is the first one to address the rest of the group showing leadership over Jack and Simon. He is also the most reasonable, he starts of by telling the other boys what jack and Simon and himself had seen on the mountaintop. Ralph is the one that has to tell the young boys that they are on an island with no way off, with no other humans on the island, and no real hope of being rescued. Then Jack interrupts by forcing his own agenda of hunting and having an army. A really childish request when you look at all that has to be done- shelter, fire, basic food, a signal for help. Ralph never admits to having a really good chance of killing this pig because he is to scared to show his weakness in front of the group, Ralph and Simon are nice and don’t say anything about Jack’s mistake because they understand what happened and understand why Jack couldn’t kill the pig.
Page 48
Jack was bent double. He was down like a sprinter, his nose only a few inches from the humid earth. The tree trunks and the creepers that festooned them lost themselves in the green dusk thirty feet above him, and all about was the undergrowth. There was only the faintest indication of a trail here; a cracked twig and what might be the impression of one side of a hoof. He lowered his chin and stared at the trace as though he would force them to speak to him.
Golding is stimulating the feeling of touch. When you read this passage you can just feel the humidity in the air, the stink of rotting leaf litter, and the enveloping darkness brought on by the trees closing in above. You can also feel Jack’s desire to win-his desire to beat the pig at its own game and kill it. The reader discovers the importance of the pig through Jack’s actions when he is hunting it. Once Jack kills the pig he will have power, and something to show-a token of his power within the group.
period 1
"You didn't ought to have let that fire out. You said you'd keep the smoke going-"
This from Piggy, and the wails of agreement from some of the hunters, drove Jack to violence. The bolting look came into his blue eyes. He took a step, and able at last to hit someone, stuck his fist into Piggy's stomach. Piggy sat down with a grunt. Jack stood over him. His voice was vicious with humiliation. (71)
In this excerpt Jack is masking his humility and wrongdoing in letting the fire go out. This reveals that Jack is very stubborn and hates to admit fault. Golding is very accurate because I feel that Golding wanted Jack to be the aggressive leader type like Stalin or Hitler and hate admitting fault and punishing those who dare make him.
Simon dropped the screen leaves back into place. The slope of the bars of honey-colored sunlight decreased; they slid up the bushes, passed over the green candle-like buds, moved up toward the canopy, and darkness thickened under the trees. With the fading of the light the riotous colors died and the heat and urgency cooled away. The candle-buds stirred. Their green sepals drew back a little and the white tips of the flowers rose delicately to meet the open air.
This powerful excerpt is showing Golding's awesome use of adjectives and describing words that have a seperate meaning to fully color his paragraph. He uses out sense of sight and feel when he said "slope of the bars of honey-colored sunlight decreased" This really stuck out to me as a wonderful way of describing a simple ray of sunlight reaching through the canopy.
As a group we decided to make a video of filmed interviews. We will speak to some elderly people were Noah works which is a retirement home. I think we will have out time filled in filming the interviews. Our handout will be pretty basic showing people the general outline of our project. Our slides will be the same but a little more specific.
We will stop WWIII by speaking before fighting and thinking of peace before war. war does not determine who is right only who is left...
Us as a society will have to start listening to our hearts not our heads in heated conflicts.
We will remain unique by just being who WE are not who someone else is or wants us to be.
We will be better americans by helping those less fortunate countries around us and keeping out strong american ways going hopefully war is not among them.
We can think for ourselves when the government gives us freedom of thought and speech and when they keep us informed of the things there doing we can make informed decisions about our life.
I am not sure about the film I will deconstruct but I am either leaning towards a war movie or the comparison of the the LOTF movies.
A director might make LOTF differently from each other by using different techniques in language and the actors in the movies could look differently.
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pg. 44-45
"I got the conch," said Piggy, in a hurt voice. "I got a right to speak." "We got to let that burn out now. And that was our firewood." He licked his lips. "There ain't nothing we can do. We ought to be more careful. I'm scared". Jack dragged his eyes away from the fire. "You're always acared. Yah-fatty!" " I got the conch," said Piggy bleakly. He turned to Ralph. "I got the conch, ain't I Ralph?" Unwillingly Ralph turned away from the splendid, awful sight. "What's that?" "The conch. I got a right to speak." The twins giggled together. "We wanted smoke-" Now look!"
Ralph should have told everyone to shut up and listen to Piggy since he had the conch. When the little kids laugh thats just them trying to cover up the reality of the fire and the whole point that they are trapped on an island for god knows how long. This shows that Piggy is intelligent but yet he does not get the respect from the rest of the people, so he can't do anything. I think Ralph wants to stick up for Piggy, but then again if he does that his reputation will be gone. I think Golding is right about the patterns of speach because when you are little, all that matters is the physical traits, and whom ever has the better ones is the most respected.
pg.41
On one side the air was cool, but on the other the fire thrust out a savage arm of heat that crinkled hair on the instant. Boys who felt the evening wind on their bdamp faces paused to enjoy the freshness of it and then found they were exhausted. They flung themselves down in the shadow that lay among the shattered rocks. The beard of flame diminished quickly; then the pile fell inwards with a soft, cindery sound, and sent a great tree of sparks upwards that leaned away and drifted downwind. The boys lay, panting like dogs. He is showing how the boys are so exausted.
In our project everyone will speak. I'm going to try and get my boss to talk to us. I will ask them, what has changed since his younger days, and if it was for good or bad.
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I believe we are going to do a video where we will interview a few people and get some live footage of their true emotions and feelings. I believe we will speak to a friend of my mother’s, my grandmother, a few people from Bethany meadows, and maybe a few teachers that sub every once in awhile since they are retired. I think we will ask them about how things have changed from when they were growing up to what it is like now. If they ever thought we would have the technology we have now. What they believe is in store for the future. How we can prevent another world war. How we can all stay unique and not become some hypnotized mass body of emotionless zombies. What we can do to better America and make things better for Americans. How can we keep thinking on our own, and keep our own opinions.
I think the overall message in fireproof is that you need to be faithful in your relationship... dont execpt the worst fight for the better no matter how hard it is. You should keep faith open in your relationship when somthing isnt going right go to god for help. use your elders (his parents) for advice talk to thim no matter there opinion on it they have gone through it before..although in this movie its not just the man being unfaithful but the wife as well one through the internet or one through an actual person.my parents went to the movie and said it was good so me and courtney decided to go also and ive seen it a total of 3 times now and it still doesnt get old..
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~"You're hindering ralph. You're not letting him get to the most important thing." He paused effectively. "Who knows we're here? Eh?" "They knew at the airport." "The man with a trumpet-thing--" "My dad." Piggy put on his glasses. "Nobody knows where we are," said piggy. He was paler than before and breathless. "Perhaps they knew where we was gointg to; and perhaps not. But they don't know where we are 'cos we never got there." He gaped at them for a moment, then swayed and sat down. Ralph took the conch from his hands.
Break down
There is a fear that is evident in this sene due to reality settling in. The boys were enjoying their adultless, uninhabited island to the fullest. Now they are getting tired of eating fruits, playing on the sand, messing around they become more and more home sick. The question being asked now is, Are they ever going to get of that island and does anybody know they are on an island? Everybody is scared and trembling with fear but Ralph has to show that he is fearless so that they may live through this ordeal. Ralph doesn't want people to know about his fear nor does he want to be overpowered by it. The dialogue being conveyed by each character fits their description.
~He picked his way up the scar, passed the great rock where Ralph had climbed on the first morning, then tured off to his right among the trees. He walked with an accustomed tread throught the acres of fruit trees, where the least energetic could find an easy if unsatisfying meal. Flower and fruit grew together on the same tree and everywhere was the scent of ripeness and the booming of a million bees at pasture.
Golding is using all of the senses, feel as if your walking on the beach, hear-as in hearing the breeze flowing between his body and trees, taste-as in the taste of sweet yet sour fruits, see-as in looking through the forest, and feel-as in feeling despair and lonliness develope in every part of your mind.
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Interviewing, gaining helpful life learning experiences from the elderly, when asking these questions we will be gaining knowledge that will be in either simple or complex explainations. Regardless, we will be involved in a learning experience. As for powerpoints and videos-I don't know what is being planned for this occasion. Knowledge is the key to prevent wars but it isn't as easy as that.
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I plan on watching an 80's movie "Maximum Overdrive" (selecting your own single film to deconstruct) due to its interesting concept of machine vs. man theme going on. The
(1)Page 53
Jack: “If your hunting sometimes you catch yourself feeling as if—” He flushed suddenly. “There’s nothing in it of course. Just a feeling. But you can feel as if you’re not hunting, but-- being hunted, as if something’s behind you all the time in the jungle.”
This dialogue shows that Jack is the adventurous type and that he is the one who, so called, “brings home the bacon”. But in this excerpt it is covering up the fact that he is the meaner, power hungry, older boy on the island. Jack is trying to tell Ralph that he is the hunter and Ralph is the one who stays home and does the rest, but he is trying to persuade him into believing it by telling him that its what he likes to do.
“Within the diamond of haze of the beach something dark was fumbling along. Ralph saw it first, and watched till the intentness of his gaze drew all eyes that way. Then the creature stepped from mirage on to clear sand, and they saw that the darkness was not all shadow but mostly clothing. The creature was a party of boys, marching approximately in step in two parallel lines and dressed in strangely eccentric clothing. Shorts, shirts, and different garments they carried in their hands; but each boy wore a square black cap with a silver badge on it. Their bodies, from throat to ankle, were hidden by black cloaks which bore a long silver cross on the left breast and each neck was finished off with a hambone frill. The heat of the tropics, the descent, the search for food, and now this sweaty march along the blazing beach had given them complexions of newly washed plums. The boy who controlled them was dressed in the same way though his cap badge was golden. When his party was about ten yards from the platform he shouted an order and they halted, gasping, sweating, swaying in the fierce light. The boy himself came forward, vaulted on to the platform with his cloak flying, and peered into what to him was almost complete darkness.”
Golding is stimulating a sense of seeing. I thought this excerpt was a good way to show what the boys are going through on the island. They thought that the group of boys was a creature and they were probably frightened of it until they realized that it was just more boys. This was a very descriptive paragraph and I couldn’t pick a point to stop typing because it all was reallllyyy good.
(2)We will be doing the interview on a 15 minute film. We are going to interview different age groups and ask them if they have read the books and many other questions relating to different topics ….to be continued.
(3) I was thinking about doing my own. When you mentioned certain things about the Lion King it made me think about it and I would like to do my deconstruction paper about that one. I want to get in and see what history could be in the story and I love that movie so it wont be hard to watch it over and over again.
Period 1
1.)
Excerpt 1: Page 45
Piggy: "I got the conch, I got the conch, ain't I Ralph?"
Ralph pretends not to hear
Ralph: "What's that?"
Piggy: "The conch. I got a right to speak." "We wanted smoke-"
I think someone should speak up for Piggy since he can't manage to do so on his own. I think they are covering up how he really feels. If I was getting interrupted all the time, I would just want to yell and scream. This says that Piggy is the weakest person on the island, but he is also the smartest. The only problem is, no one will listen to what he has to say. I think that the intended listener is hearing what they need to in order to show what Piggy is going through. I think Golding is effective because real five year old boys will go back and forth like these boys do.
Excerpt 2: Page 26
...Here the roots and stems of creepers were in such tangles that the boys had to thread through them like pliant needles. Their only guide, apart from the brown ground and occasional flashes of light through the foliage, was the tendency of slope...
Golding is stimulating our senses of touch and sight. When I read this it was like I could feel the flashes of sunlight through the trees, and throughout the story I can see almost exactly what the kids are going through.
2.)
We will be doing about a fifteen minute film….to be continued
3.)
I’m going to analyze the movie Cloverfield. I want to get into the characters minds and make the reader feel for them, not just watch them on a television. I also want to analyze how the movie was made, because it isn’t actually filmed it is all from the view of a handheld video camera.
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pg. 50-51
"They're hopelfess. The olderones aren't much better. D'you see? All day I've been working with Simon. No one else. They're off bathing, or eating or playing
Jack flushed.
"We want meat."
"Well, we haven't got any yet. And we want shelters. Besides, the rest of your hunters came back hours ago. They've been swimming."
"I went on," said Jack. "I let them go. I had to go on. I-"
He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up.
"I though I might kill."
"But you didn't."
"I thought I might."
Some hidden passion vibrated in Ralph's voice.
"But you haven't yet."
Ralph is obviously upset that Jack is not helping to make shelter for the littluns. Ralph and Jack are clashing . Ralph is concerned for shelter and feels helpless. Shelter is far more important than meat. In Ralph's eyes, he is doing all of the work and no play (like the others) and gets no sympathy. Ralph just wants help and maybe a pat on the back. Ralph is the more caring and structured. Jack is compassionate about the game or the hunt, his desire to kill the pig is overwhelming and overpowers what needs to be done. I get the vibe that he is an aggressive person and selfish. Through out pages 7-75 we see that Jack never listens to the others and doesn't obey most of the rules: non-conformist.
"He walked with an accustomed tread through the acres of fruit trees, where the least energetic could find an easy if unsatisfying meal. Flower and fruit grew together on the same tree and everywhere was the scent of ripeness and the booming of a million bees at pasture." Golding is stimulting the senses of smell and hear.. The smell of ripe fuit comes to mind and the annoying sound of bees buzzing.
Piggy’s glasses were misted again-this time with no humiliation. “You told ‘em. After what I said.” His face flushed, his mouth trembled. “After I said I didn’t want-““What on earth are you talking about?” “About being called Piggy. I said I didn’t care as long as they didn’t call me Piggy; an’ I said not to tell and then you went an’ said straight out-“Stillness descended on them. Ralph, looking with more understanding at Piggy, saw that he was hurt and crushed. He hovered between the two courses of apology or further insult. “Better Piggy than Fatty.”
What this reveals about Piggy is that he is very sensitive and has been picked on a lot and does not enjoy it. He was probably hoping to start fresh because he doesn’t know any of these boys and they don’t know his nickname. What is not said in this excerpt that is almost understood is that Ralph is apologizing to Piggy. When Jack calls Piggy fatty, it hurts him and then Ralph comes along and, in a way, stands up for Piggy by telling jack that his name is Piggy, not fatty. However, Ralph unknowingly stabs Piggy in the back by revealing his embarrassing nickname to all the boys. Then he is once again made fun of and mocked.
The boy with the fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon. Though he had taken off his school sweater and trailed it now from one hand, his grey shirt stuck to him and his hair was plastered to his forehead. All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat. He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken trunks when a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry; and this cry was echoed by another.
Golding is stimulating many senses in this excerpt. When he talks about how the boy’s clothes are sticking to him and his hair is plastered to his head. That is dealing with sight and feeling. You could imagine the boy and what he looks like with his clothes stuck to him and his hair plastered to his head. I’m sure many of us have been drenched while clothed so we can imagine how he feels. Also when he says all round him was a bath of heat, is dealing with touch and feeling. “A bath of heat”, this is a great line describing how hot it is. The bird’s witch-like cry is dealing with sound and hearing. The witch-like cry is an awesome description of how the bird sounded and then it echoed by another cry.
We are going to interview 3 different age groups, the elderly, middle age, and young adults. Yes, we are going to make a 15 min video. We will ask them about the books that we are reading and about their past and what they think their future will be like. We are still thinking about the hand out.
For my film deconstruction paper I plan on choosing my own movie because I will actually watch it a thousand times and get the real meaning of it and be able to analyze it better and enjoy watching it. It would be fun to try and figure out what one of my favorite movies is all about, maybe I’ll even discover something about it that I never noticed before and think of the movie in a different way.
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(1) First ex. :
"I'll come."
Ralph turned to him.
"You're no good on a job like this."
"All the same-"
"We don't want you," said Jack, flatly. "Three's enough."
Piggy's glasses flashed.
"I was with him when he found the conch. I was with him before anyone else was."
Jack and the others paid no attention. There was a general dispersal. Ralph, Jack, and Simon jumped off the platform and walked along the sand and past the bathing pool. Piggy hung bumbling behind them.
"If Simon walks in the middle of us," said Ralph, "then we could talk over his head."
The three of them fell into step. This meant that every now and then Simon had to do a double shuffle to catch up with the others. Presentaly Ralph stopped and turned back to Piggy.
"Look."
Jack and Simon pretended to notice nothing. They walked on.
"You can't come."
Piggy's glasses were misted again-this time with humiliation.
"You told'em. After what I said."
His face flushed, his mouth trembled.
"After I said I didn't want-"
"What on earth are you talking about?"
"About being called Piggy. I said I didn't care as long as they didn't call me Piggy; an' I said not to tell and then you went an' said straight out-"
Stillness descened on them. Ralph, looking with more understanding at Piggy, saw that he was hurt and crushed. He hovered between the two courses of apology or further insult.
"Better Piggy then Fatty," he said at last, with the disrectness of genuine leadership, "and anyway, I'm sorry if you feel like that. Now go back, Piggy, and take names. That's your job. So long."
(pages 24-25)
Well, I can see that Piggy is in a bind. Jack really doesn't like him and Jack said that flat out. Ralph feels bad but, I don't think we as the readers are hearing this.
Second ex:
The shore was fledged with palm trees. These stood or leaned or reclinded against the light and their green feathers were a hundred feet up in the air. The ground beneath them was a bank covered with coarse grass, torn everywhere by the upheavals of fallen trees, scattered with decaying coconuts and palm saplings.
(pages 9-10)
The sense is touch and seeing.
1. Ralph raised his head off his forearms.
“That was no good.”
Roger spat efficiently into the hot dust.
“What d’you mean?”
“There wasn’t any smoke. Only flame.”
Piggy had settled himself in a space between two rocks, and sat with the conch on his knees.
“We haven’t made a fire,” he said, “what’s any use. We couldn’t keep a fire like that going not if we tried.”
“A fat lot you tried,” said Jack contemptuously. “You just sat.”
“We used his specs,” said Simon, smearing a black cheek with his forearm. “He helped that way.”
“I go the conch,” said Piggy indignantly. “You let me speak!”
“The conch doesn’t count on top of the mountain,” said Jack, “so you shut up.”
“I got the conch in my hand.”
“Put on green branches,” said Maurice. “That’s the best way to make smoke.”
“I go the conch-“
Jack turned fiercely.
“You shut up!”
This excerpt is taken from the chapter Fire on the Mountain. The group was trying to start a fire in order to draw attention to the island. They got a fire going but they eventually realize they couldn’t keep that fire continuing because they’d run out of firewood. What Ralph says reveals his concerns and his intelligence on survival. He speaks like a leader and states exactly what needs to be done. What Jack says and how he says it reveals his personality as what we would call a “jerk.” Jack speaks down to Piggy and doesn’t treat him equally. He doesn’t even let Piggy speak, even though Piggy has the conch. This shows that Jack does not respect the rules that have been set by the boys. However it’s highly important what Piggy has to say to the group, and no one else is shutting him up except Jack. Jack comes across as mean, rude, and very stubborn.
The first rhythm that they became used to was the slow swing from dawn to quick dusk. They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life was full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten. Toward noon, as the floods of light fell more nearly to the perpendicular, the stark colors of the morning were smoothed in pearl and opalescence; and the heat as thou the impending sun’s height gave it momentum became a blow that the ducked, running to the shade and lying there, perhaps even sleeping.
This use of imagery creates a beautiful visual stimulation for the reader. It also offers a scent to the reader when he says sweet air. He describes the heat from the sun as moving and being seen. This shows the reader how hot the island really is. When I read this caption I saw a sunset and the calmness of morning with the suns rays against the ocean. Golding describes this scene beautifully and allows the reader to see and feel what the characters do in the novel.
2. Our group is planning on making a video of interviews from older people and middle ages people, like our grandparents and parents. We will ask them questions closely related to the book and questions about their lives and their futures. We will ask them what they think the year 2090 will be like. The film will contain the interviews and we'll contain a handout describing our set up.
3. I was thinking of deconstructing a familar film that many people from my grade have seen. I think I'll either deconstruct "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" (like Mr. C suggested) or "A Cinderella Story" starring Hilary Duff and Chad Michael Murray. Both these films involve falling in love and chasing your dreams. They're both commedies and are both very popular movies with well known actors and actresses.
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We are not limiting ourselves as to how many elders we will talk with. We want to include some of our grandparents.
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We are not limiting ourselves as to how many elders we will talk with. We want to include some of our grandparents.
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Our group hasnt talked much but about our project yet but I'm thinking we are all on the same page. We all want to get as many elders as we can to get plenty of wisdom and many points of view. We are going to ask them about their childhood and what they think of today and the future. We will have a video and powerpoins
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Ethan Thompson
(1a) pg. 46
“I told you to. I told you to get a list of names!”
“How could I,” cried Piggy indignantly, “all by myself? They waited for two minutes, then they fell in the sea; they went into the forest; they just scattered everywhere. How was I to know which was which?”
-How piggy feels about all this, because they know as much as they can about what’s going on but not how all of this pressure/responsibility is affecting Piggy.
-The fact that Piggy is doing all of the real work like taking care of everyone and they all get to go off and have fun trying to hunt, or the fact that some people put their duties on other people because their to nice to say no even though they know they aren’t qualified enough for the job.
-That Piggy is acting as the mother of the island, by being in charge of the kids, and getting their names written down.
-It is being heard that the island is truly being run my kids, that don’t know what their doing.
-What they should do about the problem instead of arguing over it.
-Yes, I think he covers the dialogue quite well for boys of this age.
(1b) pg.57
“Now the sunlight had lifted clear of the open space and with drawn from the sky. Darkness poured out, submerging the ways between the trees till they were dim and strange as the bottom of the sea. The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers glimmering under the light that pricked down from the first stars. Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island. (Sight, smell, touch)
(2) -We will speak to various senior citizens including Bill, a janitor here at Brandon Valley; and some people from the nursing home.
-We’ll ask them about their lives and how their decisions affected the outcome of today, and what they’d do different, along with based on the life they already lived…where they see our future going.
-Hopefully we will have enough video I don’t think it’ll be to hard.
-Our handouts with sum up the topic.
-The power point will include the necessary information to receive an “A.”
(3) I think I’m going to pick my own movie which I have been thinking about and might be “Lakeview Terrace,” because of it’s relation to the book.
I am thinking about doing the movie Traitor. It is a very complex movie, there is alot that I can pick apart and dissect. It is about an american citizen who was once in the military who goes to the middle east and decides to stay there. He gets involved in arms dealing and it leads him to being undercover for an agency of the United States Intelligence. There is one problem, there is only one person who knows who he really is and what he is doing, and he gets killed. The main character Sumir gets wrapped up in a major Islamic radicalist plot to bomb 50 buses across the US. He is a devout muslim and he is trying to be true to his religion and yet not get caught as being under cover. He is also being tracked by the FBI and a rougue CIA agent as all this is going on.
This is a great movie and there is alot i can interpret and dissect and make into a paper.
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Jack turns "fiercely" at/to Piggy, not just "quickly" or "swiftly" or "smoothly" or "hurriedly." Golding uses every word to convey his themes, which are timeless and worldly-relevant.
Jack turns "fiercely" at/to Piggy, not just "quickly" or "swiftly" or "smoothly" or "hurriedly." Golding uses every word to convey his themes, which are timeless and worldly-relevant.
Megan T is exactly right: Jack is a nonconformist. Are there good and bad ways of being a nonconformist?
Good--think for yourself; question things; be curious; attempt to be "unique" (if that's possible)...
Bad--never acquiesce to others' requests; break laws; destroy things that are not harmfully conformist...
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pg. 44-45
I got the conch," said Piggy, in a hurt voice. "I got a right to speak." "We got to let that burn out now. And that was our firewood." He licked his lips. "There ain't nothing we can do. We ought to be more careful. I'm scared". Jack dragged his eyes away from the fire. "You're always acared. Yah-fatty!" " I got the conch," said Piggy bleakly. He turned to Ralph. "I got the conch, ain't I Ralph?" Unwillingly Ralph turned away from the splendid, awful sight. "What's that?" "The conch. I got a right to speak." The twins giggled together. "We wanted smoke-" Now look!"
Piggy is letting them know that they wouldnt have as many troubles as they do if they would have just listened to what he had to say because he had all the right ideas but they just went off and did whatever they wanted and ended in trouble.
pg15
"Here and there, little breezes crept over the polished waters beneath the haze of heat. when these breezes reached the platform the palm fronds would whisper, so that spots of blurred sunlight slid over their bodies or moved like bright, winged things in the shade."
He is making the island look as if it were the most beautiful thing in the world and he is making parts of it almost animalistic by making the fronds whisper.
Jesse W--sounds like a great plan for your film deconstruction. I'll make sure you know some theory to back up your claims.
I enjoy what you say about the "bath of heat." The reader in an air-conditioned room can still relate, even might start perspiring. We can relate, because Golding has given us such intricate prose in his fiction. You've made excellent connections today.
Ethan--you're right; our main man Bill will have plenty of opinions to learn from/with. Teach him about the book, then collaborate with him to ensure that 2090 is not like 1984.
Pd.3
1. pg. 50 "'Never get it done.' He flung himself downa t Jack's feet. Simon remained, looking out of the hole in the shelter. Once down, Ralph explained. "Been working for days now. And look!" Two shelters were in position, but shaky. This one was a ruin. "And they keep running off. You remember the meeting? How everone was going to work hard until the shelters were finished?"
In this excerpt Ralph is upset with everyone except Simon, he takes it all out of Jack though. I believe if Ralph really wanted this problem to be solved he would talk to the rest of the boys. There is a double meaning in the part of the book. Ralph is showed as a wife and Jack as a husband. I believe Simon is shown as a child, who hides when his "parents" are fighting. I believe this is an accurate depiction of speech patterns of young boys who have grown up in high society.
pg. 56 "He picked his way up the scar, passed the great rock where Ralph had climbed on the first morning, then turned off to his right among the trees. He walked with an accustomed tread through the acres of fruit trees, where the least energetic could find an easy if unsatisfying meal. Flower and fruit grew together on the same tree and everywhere was the scent of ripeness and the booming of a million bees at pasture."
In this exerpt Golding is stimulating the sense of smell and a sense of sight. He explains how Simon looks as he walks through the scar. But he also explains how the trees smell ripe.
2. I am excited to start working on the Project 2090. I love working with editing and I'm excited to make our video of interviewees. Our group wants to interview people of all ages and make the video as professional as we can. Our handout will have information about what we see happening in the future. I believe that in the future instead of becoming more strict, I believe it will be all freedom, anyone can do anything they want. Our group will also have a very clean looking slideshow that will help the class understand better what we are presenting to them.
3. For my film deconstruction paper I am leaning towards selecting my own single film to deconstruct. I am leaning towards Pride and Prejudice or A Cinderella Story. I love both movies and they both have such history behing them. They are both very theatrically made, which will help me deconstruct them thoroughly.
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Part 1.
1. Page 24.
Piggy stirred.
"I'll come."
Ralph turned to him.
"You're no good on a job like this."
"All the same-"
"We dont want you,"said Jack, flatly. "Three's enough."
Piggy's glasses flashed.
"I was with him when he hound the conch. I was with him befor anyone else was."
I think that all three of those boy might be afraid of piggy, being he's the smartest and that he knows what he's doing.
2. Page 12.
Here the beach was interrupted abruptly by the swuare mofit of the landscape; a great platform of pink granit thrust up uncompromisingly through forest and terrace and sand and lagoon to make a raised jetty four feet high. the top of this was covered with a thin layer of soil and coarse grass and shaded with young palm trees. There was not enough soil for them to grow to any hight and when thy reached perhaps twenty fee they fell and dried, formin a criss-cross pattern to trucnks, very convenient to sit on. The palms that still stood name a green roof, covered on the undersid with a quivering tangle of reflections from the coolness and shade, shut one eye, and decieded that the shadows o this body were really green.
Josh B--interesting problem we have here, isn't it? Piggy is the weakest, but the smartest. Often times, we won't listen because we prejudge (and therefore miss out on many opportunities). Almost everyone can be prejudged and, therefore, ignored or denied: old, young, white, black, weak, strong. I know "jocks" who are/were brilliant who were never listened to in college, because the professor judged them and denied them "entrance" into the academic discussion. I witnessed how intelligent and disciplined they were; still, the occasional professor felt that "jocks" were at once/both privileged and idiotic.
It is not always the "weak" (like Piggy) who are dismissed.
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(1) Pg. 22
Jack Spoke.
We've got to decide about being rescued."
There was a buzz. One of the small boys, Henry, said that he wanted to go home.
"Shut up,” said Ralph absently. He lifted the conch. "Seems to me we ought to have a chief to decide things."
"A Chief! A Chief!"
"I ought to be chief," said Jack with simple arrogance, "because I'm chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp."
-This passage reveals that Jack wants total control. He thinks very highly of himself, and so should others therefore he wants to be in charge. In a sense, he wants to run a dictatorship so he can control everything without any "outside" help from the other boys. This may also foreshadow to cause problems, because Ralph becomes in charge, which might cause Jack to revolt because he does not get his way in things.
Pg. 58
"They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten."
-This excerpt expresses the senses of seeing and feeling. The boys can see the morning and feel the cool breeze of the sea. The author uses good descriptive words so the reader can imagine the setting in their minds.
Period 3
Question One
Page 52
“All I’m saying is we’ve worked dashed hard. That’s all.”
- Ralph is trying to tell Jack that he wants to have some appreciation for what he is doing by building shelters. He just wants people to realize that there are more important things then just hunting for pigs. These words reveal that the character is feed up with how he is being treated by Jack and how he wishes that he could have more control over the children so they are not just playing all day long. Jack doesn’t want to hear what Ralph has to say, he doesn’t care that they now have shelters he is to wrapped up in being a savage that he could care less about the shelters that have been built. I think at some times Golding is accurate in the depiction of the speech patterns of young boys but some times he is trying to say to much. Because in reality they are not going to sit around explaining every detail and what not its much more brisk and short.
Page 58
“The first rhythm that they became used to was the slow swing from dawn to quick dusk. They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming seas and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten.”
- Golding is trying to show that the children have lost all reality of being rescued because life it so good on the island. There are no adults, hardly any rules, and no punishment for breaking the rules. It’s a perfect place to live if you have been stuck in a high society world where you have to seem like perfect angles. He is always trying to show us how the island is like a vacation retreat and how people never want to come home. It is like that with the boys they have forgotten about rescue because it is not necessary to remember or care about being rescued.
Question two
We will be interviewing not only older people but also younger children, to help show how people change over time. We will also be speaking to people with different backgrounds to get a greater variety of answers and views. We will more then likely have a guest speaker come in instead of a lot of filmed material because with a guest speaker questions from the class can be answered better then if we would have to try and guess what others would say. Handouts will probably just be of who we interviewed and what there responses to the questions are which would correlate to the power point slides.
Question three
I am thinking I will not be comparing the two LOTF movies but picking one of my own favorites to tie in with LOTF. Other then that I have not thought about it much more besides a few movies I have in mind that I might be picking from.
We will probly talk to our grandparents and some random elders to get and idea of what their ideas are.
pd. 3
pg. 54
"Got it!" Jack shoutedso loudly that Ralph jumped. "What? Where? Is it a ship?" But Jack was pointing to the high declivities that led down from the mountain to the flatter part of the island. "Of course! They'll lie up there-they must, when the sun's too hot-" Ralph gazed bewildered at his rapt face. "-they get up high. High up and in the shade, resting during the heat, like cows at home-" "I thought you saw a ship!" "We could steal up on one-paint our faces so they wouldn't see-perhaps surround them and then-" Indignation took away Ralph's control. "I was tlaking about smoke! Don't you want to be rescued? All you can talk about is pig, pig, pig!" "But we want meat!" "And I work all day with nothing but Simon and you come back and don't even notice the huts!" "I was working too-" "But you like it!"shouted Ralph. "You want to hunt! While I-"
This excerpt is between Jack and Ralph. These two young boys are bickering like an old married couple. This excerpt shows that Ralph is trying to be "motherly" by building the huts and trying to maintain some order. It also shows that Jack enjoys being stranded on the island and is turning into more of an animal. All Jack wants to do is hunt. There bickering could also show their love for one another (not in a gay way, in a caring way). I think Golding accuratly shows the speech patterns of some young boys, especially young british boys because he was one.
pg. 58
Strange things happen at midday. The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of blatant impossibility; the coral reef and the few stunted palms that clung to the more elevated parts would float up into the sky, would quiver, be pluckd apart, run like raindrops on a wire or be repeated as in an odd succession of mirrors. Sometimes land loomed where there was no land and flicked out like a bubble as the children watched.
Golding wants you to see whats not there. He explains the mirages with such detail, but obviously a mirage is only a hallucination. "Sometimes land loomed where there was no land..." is the perfect example of the mirage that all the children believe is actually real. "The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of blatant impossibility" is the example of the details. Moved apart in planes of impossibility is impossible. It is confusing, yet it makes perfect sense because mirages don't make sense because they are not real.
Few people are choosing to compare the two Lord of the Flies films. I understand completely and want you to enjoy what you analyze.
Pride and Prejudice would be fascinating, Emily. You might be able to use the novel for comparative purposes. Should be cool to see how you examine the director's choices, the soundtrack, the camera angles, the script, the acting, and so on.
Iam am not quite sure what my essay will be about, i am thinking of picking my own movie because i think that i could make a better paper that way but i am still undecided on exactly what i am going to do.
pd. 2
Part 2
I was thinking that we would most likly do a movie. in it we will interveiw some of the elders that we know. I can imagine that we will have a decent hand out for everyone to follow along. we will try to be as original as possible. so we'll see how that goes.
Stephanie B--good point. Maybe not a homosexual love, though that's not out of the realm of possiblities. We'll consider some Freud, which you may accept or reject.
Maybe a caring love.
Pd. 3
Pg. 33
Ralph adressing the boys- "So you see," said Ralph, "we need hunters to get us meat. And another thing."
He lifted the shell on his knees and looked round the sunslashed faces.
"There aren't any grownups. We shall have to look over ourselves."
The meeting hummed and was silent.
"And another thing. We can't have everybody talking at once. We'll have to have 'hands up' like at school."
He held the conch before his face and glanced round the mouth.
"Then I'll give him the conch."
"Conch?"
"That's what this shell's called. I'll give the conch to the next person to speak. He can hold it when he's speaking."
Ralph demonstrates in this dialogue aimed at the boys that he has power and that he is willing to delegate it through the conch. Ralph lays down basic rules to maintain order on the island. This shows his drive to provide the boys with proper conditions in order to be organized and survive. He literally passes the conch, but he symbolically gives the power to whomever has the conch at the moment.
Pg. 49
Jack hunting- Then the trail, the frustration, claimed him again and he searched the ground avidly. By the trunk of a vast tree that grew pale flowers on its grey bark he checked, closed his eyes, and once more drew in the warm air; and this time his breath came short, there was even a passing pallor in his face, and then the surge of blood again. He passed like a shadow under the darkness of the tree and crouched, looking down at the trodden ground at his feet.
The sense of sight and touch are stimulated throughout this paragraph. Golding uses colorful language to describe the foliage in which Jack is hunting. Jack stumbles upon a trail, but Golding doesn't go out and say this. He instead talks of the trodden ground and the feelings that it evokes in Jack. These are feelings of disappointment and frustration because of his inability to take a pig with his spear. He continues to try to kill a pig because of the promise of meat that would lie in the feat. He is a man's man and sees hunting as the best way to provide for the boys. Ralph dislikes this because Jack enjoys his job as Ralph has to keep house and look over the kids like a housewife. Jack is only doing his part to provide and keep the boys going. He also represents something for the boys to strive for in his search for sustainence.
Anything more concrete about Project 2090, Nick?
P. 3
Pg. 51 ( Jack and Ralph arguing)
“We want meat.” (Jack)
“Well, we haven’t got any yet. And we want shelters. Besides, the rest of your hunters came back hours ago. They’ve been swimming.” (Ralph)
“I went on. I thought I might kill.” (Jack)
“But you didn’t.” (Ralph)
“I thought I might.” (Jack)
“But you haven’t.” (Ralph)
“You wouldn’t care to help with the shelters, I suppose?” (Ralph)
“We want meat.” (Jack)
“And we don’t get it.” (Ralph)
“But I shall! Next time! I’ve got to get a barb on this spear! We wounded a pig and the spear fell out. If we could only make barbs-“ (Jack)
“We need shelters.” (Ralph)
This conversation shows the relationship between Ralph and Jack like the relationship of a husband and wife. All Jack wants to do is hunt and get meat, but Ralph finds that making shelters is more important because they already have an abundance of food. It seems like no matter how many times Ralph tells Jack that shelters are more important right now, Jack just seems like he’s not listening and instead just thinking about hunting. A lot of wives feel like their husbands don’t listen as much or as well as they want them to, and William Golding shows this by making these two characters act the same way.
Pg. 34
The silence was so complete that they could hear the unevenness of Piggy’s breathing. The sun slanted in and lay golden over half the platform. The breezes that on the lagoon had chased their tails like kittens were finding their way across the platform and into the forest. Ralph pushed back the tangle of fair hair that hung on his forehead.
William Golding is showing how lonely it is one this island and how calm and quiet it is. By making it so quiet, the boys are seeing and realizing that they are the only ones here and that they may be here for a long time. But other than showing its calmness and loneliness, Golding is also showing its beauty.
PROJECT 2090:
Our plans for this project are to go to either have someone’s grandparents come in and speak or just interview random elders. My grandma lives in a senior living apartment complex in Brandon, so we will either go there and interview or go to Bethany Meadows. We are going to get their wisdom and many different topics in today’s world. Also, Tracy works at a day care, so we are also going to interview them and get their incite on topics too so we can compare the elders to the little kids. We will also have a fifteen minute film of the interviews of the elders and the little kids. We’re not sure on what out handout is going to be yet though.
MOVIE:
I’m going to write the paper on the movie that you gave me Mr. C., but I don’t remember what it’s called thought. And since I haven’t seen it or even heard of it, I am probably going to watch it more than once in order to get many aspects out of it.
Pd 3.
1.)Piggy spke, also dribbling.
"Aren't I having none?"
Jack had meant to leave him in doubt, as an assertion of power; but Piggy by advertising his omission made more cruelty necessary.
"You didn't hunt."
"No more did Ralph," said Piggy wetly, "nor Simon." He amplified. "There isn't more than a ha'porth of meat in a crab."
Ralph stirred uneasily. Simon, sitting between the twims and Piggy, wiped his mouth and shoved his piece of meat over the rocks to Piggy, who grabbed it. The twins giggled and Simon lowered his face in shame. pg. 73-74
Everyone is so mean to Piggy. The other boys get food when they didnt go hunting, so why can't Piggy have some meat? Piggy could say so much to the boys but he holds it all in. He is so intimidated by them. The explains Piggy's character though. He is a shy, very smart boy that needs to be more of a leader in this group. The listener is getting out of the excerpt that no one likes Piggy and they all treat him as if he was not human. I like how Golding uses completely different people and their characters and makes them all trying to survive on and island.
Pg. 32
By the time Ralph finished blowing the conch the platformn wascrowded. There were differences between this meeting and the one held in the morning. The afternoon sun slanted in from the other side of the platform and most of the children, feeling too late the smart of sunburn, had put their clothes on. The choir, noticeably less of a group, had discarded their cloaks.
Golding is stimulating the sense of see by noticing there is less of a choir group. The sense of hear by hearing the conch blow. The sense of feel of the sunburn on there skin. The sense of touch by how the choir discarded their cloaks.
2.) I think we will have 15 min. of filmed material for sure. We are going to interview all ages of people. Tracy works at a day care so we were going to go there and talk to them. Also talk to mallory's grandma who lives in a senior living home. We are unsure on how our handouts are going to look right now. We are going to ask them about some of their hisory and their words about future.
3.) I am still unsure
on what I want to do for my deconstruction paper. I will either do my own movie which I dont know what one yet, or I will just compare the two LOTF movies. I think a director and producer would make the two LOTF differetnly accordingly to their times. The newer one will be more up to date and fit more in our time frame.
P.3
1)
Pg.24
He nodded at Ralph.
"I'll come."
"And I-"
Jack snatched from behind im a sizable sheath-knife and clouted it into a trunk. The buzz rose and died away.
Piggy stirred.
"I'll come."
Ralph turned to him.
"YOur're no good on a job like this."
"All the same-"
"We don't want you," said Jack, flatly. "Three's enough."
Piggy's glasses flashed.
"I was with him when he found the conch. I was with him before anyone else was."
Ralph is trying to tell Piggy that he can't come because he isn't fit for the task. Ralph is really trying to tell Piggy that he is an outsider who doesn't fit in with the kids going and he is not wanted because he is different. The words show how Ralph is not considerate of Piggy's feelings and just considers him another kid. Ralph doesn't see the pain he causes Piggy and that Piggy just wants to belong. Ralph should just tell Piggy the real reason why he is not allowed to come and maybe Ralph would see how rude he is being. Golding does an accurate depiction of speech patterns of boys because everything is short and there is no use of bigger words.
Pg.62
Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger's arm was conditioned by a civilization tht knew nothing of him and was in ruins.
Golding is stimulation your sense of sight and feeling. He is wanting to show you how Roger is throwing rocks at Henry but Henry is protected by his past life. You get a feeling that even though the children's past lives are diappearing there is always a part of that life with them.
2)My group will be getting wisdom from all age groups and hope to insight from the young and the old. We will ask the interviewees about their lives and the way they see America heading in the future. We hope to have a film and have not thought about what type of handout we will do yet.
3)I am thinking of doing my own film. I am leaning towards "A Beautiful Mind", because it is such a deep movie and has a lot of meaning.
pd. 3
Part 3.
I've been watching alot of movies lately and have been keeping an eye out for things that i could pull apart in the movie. I've been watching some biking movies and have been anylizing why the director used this music with this rider. or why they decided to film at night instead of day. the more i think about it the more i realize how much thought has to go into making a movie.
pd.3
"You're hindering Ralph. You're not letting him get to the most important thing." He paused effectively.
"Who knows we're here? eh?"
"The man with the trumpet-thing"
"My dad."
"nobody knows where we are," said Piggy. He was paler than before and breathless. "Perhaps they knew where we was goint to; and perhaps not. But they don't know where we are 'cos we never got there." He gaped at them for a moment, then swayed and sat down. Ralph took the conch from his hands.
In this excerpt Piggy is showing his frustration with the situation. Piggy is tired of being constantly ignored and thinks that the other boys should know what the situation is. I think that when Piggy finally spoke the words he realized the severity of what they ment and that they might never be found. After this outburst the other boys begin to realize that nobody knows where they are and that they are completely alone. Piggy realizes that they need to act like civilized adults and be rational about what has happened.
"Strange things happened at midday. The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of blatant impossibility; the coral reef and the few stunted palms that clung to the more elevated parts would float up into the sky, would quiver, be plucked apart, run like raindrops on a wire or be repeated as in an odd succession of mirrors. Sometimes land loomed where there was no land and flicked out like a bubble as the children watched."
In this excerpt Golding stimulates your sight and your perception. Golding wants the reader to vizualized themselves on the island watching these things. He also wants you to feel the calm of these sights but also the confusion of seeing mirages.
2.)For project 2090 our group is going to interview people of all ages. We are also plan on making a video to better portray their important advice. I think we will ask questions that can be answered by anyone at any age and compare them to each other. Our handout will help the class better understand what we are trying to show them with the video and the power point.
3.)For my film paper I am leaning towards selecting my own single film. I think I will most likely choose a movie based on a Jane Austen book. I find Jane Austen's novels interesting because in her real life she never had a "happy ending" and so she created her own in her novels. Perhaps I will even do the movie based on her real life.
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(2)
For our project 2090 we have decided to interview a range of people. Tracy works at a day care, so she will interview some of her kids to get the views from the younger population. We have a few elders in mind as well like one of our group member's grandparents. We might make a video, but that is just depending on the time we have. A handout will go to each student possibly discussing what questions we asked and possibly some interesting facts.
(3)
For my deconstruction paper, I am leaning towards a film of my choice. The film that I am deciding over is The Departed. The Departed is my favorite movie I have seen. This movie has many aspects I can pick apart and analyze. I have seen this movie a thousand times, so I am very well informed of what the movie is about.
pd. 3
pg. 54
"I was talkin g bout smoke! Don't you want to be rescued? All you can talk about is pig, pig, pig!"
"But we eat meat!"
"And I work all day with nothing but Simon and you come back and don't even notice the huts!"
"I was working too-"
"But you like it!"
This is showing Ralphs frustration with Jack and how he gets the fun job while Ralph is stuck doing the dirty work and Jack doesnt even show thanks or notice the hard work Ralph has put in. These words show that Ralph likes to be praised for hard work and has deep emotional feeling. Whereas Jack shows no care about anyone else but himself and is like a stone.
pg.48
Jack crouched with his face a few inches away from this clue, then stared forward into the semi-darkness of the undergrowth. His sandy hair, consiederably longer than it had been when they dropped in, was lighter now; and his bare back was a mass of dark freckles and peeling sunburn. A sharpened stick about five feet long trailed from his right hand, and except for a pair of tattered shorts held up by his knife-belt he was naked. He closed his eyes, raised his head and breathed in gently with falred nostrils, assessing the current of warm air for information. The forest and he were very still.
Golding is stimulating sight,and feel. He paints us a portrait with details like sandy hair; long, light hair; peeling sunburn; tattered shorts; and a long stick. He gives us feeling when he says a long breath, that we have all done and warm air currents that we have felt in the summer. GOlding is very good at describing this part of the book, and helps us understand what it exactly looks like.
I'm offering the option of comparing the two LOTF film versions for those that need more directive structure. Comparing/deconstructing these two will be highly academic and productive.
period 3
"We want meat." "Well, we haven't got any yet. And we want shelters. Besides, the rest of your hunters came back hours ago. They've been swimming." "I went on," said Jack. "I let them go. I had to go on. I-" He tried to convey thte compulsion to track down and kill that ws swallowing him up. "I went on. I thought, by myself-" The madness came into his eyes again. "I thought I might kill." "But you didn't." "I thought i might." Some hidden passion vibrated in Ralph's voice. "But you havent yet." pg 51
Ralph should be telling Jack straight out that he needs to grow up and that he needs to be more mature and do some things that he maybe doesn't want to do. Jack and Ralph are both showing alot of frustration, Jack for not getting a pig and Ralph for Jack letting his men go swimming and everyone else not working besides him and Simon. Ralph is a true leader and understands what needs to be done and that they have to do it even if they don't want to. Jack on the other hand is more interested in himself and more concerned about what others think about him and is not mature or a leader and he just lets his men go off on their own. While you are reading this you can really tell that Ralph is very upset and wants Jack to take more responsibility and it shoes that Jack is like one hundred percent set on killing a pig and that is all that really matters to him. The could have yelled at each other alot more but they didn't and they could have both agreed on working harder on getting all of they boys to work together to get the things done that they needed to get done and then they could let them play afterward. Yes i think Golding is accurate in is depiction of the speech patterns of young boys because they usually snap off answers really quick and get defensive and really upset with one another but then the next moment they are fine with each other and they are good friends again like nothing happened at all.
Simon turned away from them and went where the just perceptible path led him. Soon high jungle closed in. Tall trunks bore unexpected pale flowers all the way up to the dark canopy where life went on clamorously. The air here was dark too, and the creepers dropped their ropes like the rigging of foundered ships. his feet left prints in the soft soil and the creepers shivered throughout their lengths when he bumped them. pg 56
golding uses sight and touch really well. The reader can vividly make a picture of what Golding is describing and feel the things that Simon is feeling, like the soft cold damp soil on his feet that leaves footprints as he walks. Golding is really good at using lively description that puts the reader on the island with the other characters.
3rd
(1a)
"They used to call me Piggy."
Ralph shrieked with laughter.
He jumped up.
"Piggy! Piggy!"
"Ralph - Please"
Piggy clasped his hands in apprehension.
"I said I didn’t want-"
"Piggy! Piggy!"
This passage shows what kind of cruel person Ralph is. Piggy has helped him and now Ralph just makes fun of him, despite Piggy's request not to. This is foreshadowing because it is covering up Piggy's ideas with childish behavior by Ralph. If people continue to overlook Piggy then they will screw up and regret their harmful actions. Everyone continues to overlook Piggy and continue to grow farther apart.
(1b)
Here and there, little breezes crept over the polished waters beneath the haze of heat. When these breezes reached the platform the palm fronds would whisper, so that spots of blurred sunlight slid over their bodies of moved like bright, winged things in the shade.
Golding is simulating the sense of sight. He uses descriptive words to paint a picture in our minds that help us better understand the setting. These visual descriptions are very stimulating, intriguing, and extremely helpful.
(2)
For Project 2090 our group will interview a wide variety of elderly peoples to get various points of view. We will ask question about there aspirations and there past. We’ll also ask questions about what they would change and what they think will be changed in the future. We plan on interviewing former BVMS teacher, Bob Peters.
(3)
My initial idea for my essay is to analyze another movie of my choice. I am undecided at the moment, on which film I will deconstruct. I will analyze the what, when, were, who, how, and why of the film I select and also make comparisons to LOTF.
period 3.
DIALOGUE EXCHANGE
"We're on an island. We've been on the mountain top and seen water all around. We saw no houses, no smoke, no footprints, no boats, no people. We're on an uninhabited island with no other people on it."
Jack broke in.
"All the same you need an army-for hunting. Hunting pigs-"
If you analyze the island as the Earth, Ralph as the mother, Jack as the father, and the littluns as their children, it is easier to understand what Golding may have been subliminaly implying throughout this dialogue exchange. Ralph (mother) worries about shelter, safety, and being rescued, while Jack (father) worries about hunting and feeding everyone. These roles are obviously seen in society. The mother is constantly worry about her children, their safety, and shelter for them. But, the family has always been known as the one to 'feed the family', who must go out and hunt and bring it back to the home his family is living in. I think this dialogue exchange shows how Golding is using the island as the world, and the characters as different roles in society. Also, I think you can relate it to war, mainly because this book was written following WWII. I think that usually men are more likely to want or encourage war, which Jack, in a way, implies by wanted to hunt and be savage-like. But, at the same time the women are more concerned about their immediate family, and having a safe shelter for them.
SETTING DESCRIPTION
Here the beach was interrrupted abruptly by the square motif of the landscape; a great platform of pink granite thrust up uncompromisingly through forest and terrace and sand and lagoon to make a raised jetty four feet high. The top of this was covered with a thin layer of soil and coarese grass and shaded with young palm trees. There was not enough soil for them to grow to any height and when they reached prehaps twenty feet they fell and dried, forming a criss-cross pattern of trunks, very convenient to sit on. The palms that still stood made a greeen roof, covered on the underside with a quivering tangle of reflections from the lagoon. Ralph hauled himself onto this platform, noted the coolness and shade, shut one eyey, and decided that the shadows on his body were really green.
Golding is definitely stimulating 'sight' in this paragraph. He tells of exactly how this cliff looks. He tells about the underside which protudes into the ocean, and of the ground, and of the trees that are tangled on top of it. He uses words such as: bright, green, criss-cross, quivering, reflections, thin, course, etc. in order to stimulate the reader's senses.
PROJECT 2090
Our group is planning on interviewing people from all different age groups, but mainly the elderly. We hope to find interesting people, with interesting thoughts. My grandpa was in WWII, therefore he may be an interesting person to interview, and I know that he would love to do it. Also, when we are interviewing younger kids, I work at a daycare, and two of us tutor at the elementary, therefore it will be easy for us to be able to get information from young kids. Hopefully based on what kind of information we receive from our interviewees we can collect some good ideas for handouts and our powerpoint.
MOVIE DECONSTRUCTION PAPER
I am thinking that I will probably do a deconstruction paper on a different movie rather than on the two LOTF movies, mainly because we will have read the book and watched two movies, and I would rather engage myself in something new. I understand that the more you learn and read about a topic, and the more times you watch the movie, the better your paper will be, but I think I would rather watch a different movie several times. When watching my own film I will try to depict the characters mainly since they are usually the most dynamic aspects of a film. I will try to find out what message the director is trying to portray through each character, such as in LOTF. I will try to learn more about the background aspects as well. I don't know much about lighting and background music, but hopefully by the end of this I am able to pick up on the uses of certain things like this, which make a movie better.
period 3.
DIALOGUE EXCHANGE
"We're on an island. We've been on the mountain top and seen water all around. We saw no houses, no smoke, no footprints, no boats, no people. We're on an uninhabited island with no other people on it."
Jack broke in.
"All the same you need an army-for hunting. Hunting pigs-"
If you analyze the island as the Earth, Ralph as the mother, Jack as the father, and the littluns as their children, it is easier to understand what Golding may have been subliminaly implying throughout this dialogue exchange. Ralph (mother) worries about shelter, safety, and being rescued, while Jack (father) worries about hunting and feeding everyone. These roles are obviously seen in society. The mother is constantly worry about her children, their safety, and shelter for them. But, the family has always been known as the one to 'feed the family', who must go out and hunt and bring it back to the home his family is living in. I think this dialogue exchange shows how Golding is using the island as the world, and the characters as different roles in society. Also, I think you can relate it to war, mainly because this book was written following WWII. I think that usually men are more likely to want or encourage war, which Jack, in a way, implies by wanted to hunt and be savage-like. But, at the same time the women are more concerned about their immediate family, and having a safe shelter for them.
SETTING DESCRIPTION
Here the beach was interrrupted abruptly by the square motif of the landscape; a great platform of pink granite thrust up uncompromisingly through forest and terrace and sand and lagoon to make a raised jetty four feet high. The top of this was covered with a thin layer of soil and coarese grass and shaded with young palm trees. There was not enough soil for them to grow to any height and when they reached prehaps twenty feet they fell and dried, forming a criss-cross pattern of trunks, very convenient to sit on. The palms that still stood made a greeen roof, covered on the underside with a quivering tangle of reflections from the lagoon. Ralph hauled himself onto this platform, noted the coolness and shade, shut one eyey, and decided that the shadows on his body were really green.
Golding is definitely stimulating 'sight' in this paragraph. He tells of exactly how this cliff looks. He tells about the underside which protudes into the ocean, and of the ground, and of the trees that are tangled on top of it. He uses words such as: bright, green, criss-cross, quivering, reflections, thin, course, etc. in order to stimulate the reader's senses.
PROJECT 2090
Our group is planning on interviewing people from all different age groups, but mainly the elderly. We hope to find interesting people, with interesting thoughts. My grandpa was in WWII, therefore he may be an interesting person to interview, and I know that he would love to do it. Also, when we are interviewing younger kids, I work at a daycare, and two of us tutor at the elementary, therefore it will be easy for us to be able to get information from young kids. Hopefully based on what kind of information we receive from our interviewees we can collect some good ideas for handouts and our powerpoint.
MOVIE DECONSTRUCTION PAPER
I am thinking that I will probably do a deconstruction paper on a different movie rather than on the two LOTF movies, mainly because we will have read the book and watched two movies, and I would rather engage myself in something new. I understand that the more you learn and read about a topic, and the more times you watch the movie, the better your paper will be, but I think I would rather watch a different movie several times. When watching my own film I will try to depict the characters mainly since they are usually the most dynamic aspects of a film. I will try to find out what message the director is trying to portray through each character, such as in LOTF. I will try to learn more about the background aspects as well. I don't know much about lighting and background music, but hopefully by the end of this I am able to pick up on the uses of certain things like this, which make a movie better.
Pd. 3
1)
Page-51
"Meetings. Don't we love meetings? Every day. Twice a day. We talk." He got on one elbow. "I bet if I blew the conch this minute, they'd come running. Then we'd be, you know, very solemn, and someone would say we ought to build a jet, or a submarine, or a TV set. When the meeting was over they's work for five munites, then wander off or go hunting."
Jack flushed.
"We want meat."
"Well, we haven't got any yet. And we want shelters. Besides, the rest of your hunters came back hours ago. They've been swimming."
In this excerpt Ralph and Jack are not seeing eye to eye. Ralph thinks it is far more important to build shelter than it is to hunt for food. He is getting very frustrated with everyone because he feels like no one is doing anything to help build the shelters. Jack does not have any sympathy for Ralph and doesn't seem to understand how Ralph is feeling. He is to concerned about hunting that nothing else really matters. He seems so selfish and doesn't listen or care about the others. He only cares about himself and his hunting which he has nothing to show for it.
Page-46
A tree exploded in the fire like a bomb. Tall swathes of creepers rose for a moment into view, agonized, and went donw again. The little boys screamed at them.
Goldings is stimulating the sense of sight and the sense of fear in the boys.
Per 3
Page 25
"You told 'em. After what I said."
His face flushed, his mouth trembled.
"After I said I didn't want-"
"What on earth are you talking about?"
"About being called Piggy. I said I didn't care as long as they didn't call me Pigggy; an' I said not to tell and then you went an' said staight out-"...
..."Better Piggy than Fatty,"
Piggy's response to Ralph's betrayal is acceptable, but Ralph does have a point. In an odd way Ralph is trying to protect Piggy but doesn't want the others to know his association with Piggy. I do not feel Ralph would be embarrassed, but more afraid for himself. By associating with Piggy, a physicaly weaker charater, Ralph fears he to might be seen as week by the other childern. Piggy only sees the back stabbing that occured, what he should see is a friend who for the sake of both of them made the right choice.
Page 34
The silence was so complete that they could hear the unevenness of Piggy's breathing. The sun slanted in and lay golden over half the platform. The breezes that on the lagoon had chased their tails like kittens were finding their way across the platform and into the forest.
The excerpt I used is one that mainly appeals to the sense of touch. I can feel the warm ocean breeze gentely flow from the ocean brushing my cheek, and finding its way across the beach. Then, it is swollowed by the damp forest.
Period 3
(1a) Page 25
“You told ‘em. After what I said.”
His face flushed, his mouth trembled.
“After I said I didn’t want—“
“What on earth are you talking about?”
“About being called Piggy. I said I didn’t care as long as they didn’t call me Piggy; an; I said not to tell and then you went an’ said straight out—“
-Piggy feels betrayed by Ralph. He feels hurt and embarrassed. How could he trust Ralph now? ..It would be hard for him not too, especially in their circumstances. You’d almost need to trust everyone your with for your only means of survival.
-You’re “hearing” Piggy’s hurt.
-Ralph should’ve apologized, but instead of doing that he goes and remarks “Better Piggy than Fatty.” Why does Ralph have to be the “tough guy?” That is his own mask.
-Golding depicts these boys speech very well. They aren’t just your average boys, they are above average when it comes to intelligence and Golding shows it through the boys speech.
(1b) Page 25
"Now, toward the end of the afternoon, the mirages were settling a little. They found the end of the island, quite distinct, and not magicked out of shape or sense. There was a jumble of the usual squareness, with one great block sitting out in the lagoon. Sea birds were nesting there."
-Sight-dusk is coming, and he is describing how the mirages die down as the sun does. “They (being the mirages) found the end of the island...” WOW! Incredible way to describe something happening like that. He took something little and made it just “hit” in your mind. He knows exactly how to stimulate your sight senses.
(2)
-Our group has ideas my the past group examples we’ve watched in class, but we aren’t entirely sure how we will present it.
-We will be speaking to both elders and young children. Specifically a few relatives and siblings, along with others.
-We have a long list of questions to ask, but I don’t think we’ll ask them all. I think after a few questions they (elders) will be telling their story on their own without questions.
-We will be video taping some interviews and writing down others. The ones we record will be for our video which will up to 15 min. and we will make posters for the rest I believe.
(3)
-For my paper I was thinking about dissecting a movie, not sure what one yet though. Maybe Fightclub? A classic.
(1) (Piggy) “Aren’t I having none?”
Jack had meant to leave him in doubt, as an assertion of power; but Piggy by advertising his omission made more cruelty necessary.
(Jack) “You didn’t hunt.”
(Piggy) “ No more did Ralph,” said Piggy wetly, “nor Simon.” He amplified. “There isn’t more than a ha’porth of meat in a crab.”
Ralph stirred uneasily. Simon, sitting between the twins and Piggy, wiped his mouth and shoved his piece of meat over the rocks to Piggy, who grabbed it. The twins giggled and Simon lowered his face in shame.
In this conversation there have been many things unsaid. Ralph has just proven a point to Jack that by letting the fire go out there may have been a ship that went by and had no idea they were there because there was no signal fire; and now all of a sudden everyone has forgotten all about that and are listening to how Jack caught the pig and ripped his guts out. Then, everyone is eating except Piggy and when he asks for some Jack tell him no because he did not do anything to contribute to the hunt. But, Piggy is no dummy he knows that neither Ralph nor Simon did anything to hunt either and after Piggy says this Jack has no come back because he knows that Piggy is right. Simon is actually very ashamed that he was so selfish and gives his share of meat to Piggy this upsets Jack and Jack gives another piece to Simon and then acts like the whole thing never happened. The boys do nothing to tell Jack that he is no big shot and he still could cause their downfall but also Ralph does almost nothing to be a good leader he keeps all his good ideas to himself and then gets mad at everyone else when they don’t do what they should be even thought they were never given specific instructions. Ignoring problems within the group and treating Piggy the way they do could come back to haunt the boys in the end.
Strange things happened at midday. The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of blatant impossibility; the coral reef and the few stunted palms that clung to the more elevated parts would float up into the sky, would quiver, be plucked apart, run like raindrops on the wire or be repeated as in an odd succession of mirrors. Sometimes land loomed where there was no land and flickered out like a bubble as the children watched.
In this descriptive paragraph we are told that the boys have been on this island for a very long time and are beginning to see things that they wish would occur. They see the sea moving apart because they wish they could just walk away from the island and go back home. They see things floating away into the sky, this could be because they sometimes wish they were in heaven vs. being stuck on the island since there is a possibility they will never be rescued. They also see things turn into raindrops which could be because they are always so hot and the bathing pool does not help because the watch water is hot. Then, they would see land out where there is really only water because they wish there was land there. This could lead to later seeing ships when there isn’t one leading to false hopes and future insanity.
(2) My group has ideas from the past groups but we have not done a whole lot of sitting down and planning. I would like to have 15 minutes of filmed material it leaves less talk time so we do not have to make stuff up. I hope to get drawings from children to really see what they think the future will be like and to some elders on film because I think it is more interesting when you see how a person talks and you can feel their emotions vs. me telling my classmates what they said. You just don’t get the same feeling. I don’t know where but I do hope we can find a good program to help us put together a video.
(3) I have not decided what film I would like to analyze I would like to compare the Lord of the Flies videos but I would like to analyze a one of my favorite movies… but I have so many favorites that I could analyze I don’t know which one to pick. But, I am thinking bout it.
period 3
Page 54
1. "We could steal up on one-paint our faces so they wouldn't see-perhaps surround them and then-"
Indignation took away Ralph's control.
"I was talking about smoke! Don't you want to be rescued? All you can talk about is pig, pig pig!"
"But we want meat!"
"And I work all day with nothing but Simon and you come back and don't even notice the huts!"
"I was working too-"
"But you like it!" shouted Ralph. "You want to hunt! While I-"
-Ralph and Jack are fighting like they are husband and wife. Ralph is acting like the wife because he wants to have everything neat while Jack is the husband because he just wants to do men things like hunting. This might show that these two might be gay or have an odd relationship.
Page 59
Strange things happened at midday. The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of blatant impossibility; the coral reef and the few stunted palms that clung to the more elevated parts would float up into the sky, would quiver, be plucked apart, run like raindrops on a wire or be repeated as in an odd succession of mirrors.
- This one paragraph creates a masterful effect because he explains in such great detail of how nature acted while the boys were there. He makes the sea seem as though it is human through personification, and he also shows how the trees and plants have flourished with great imagery.
2. Our initial ideas for project 2090 are we will probably go interview elders at Prince of Peace and get some good insight from them. We will ask these elders what their views are on how the world is today, and how do you think it will change in 50 years. Also we will ask them how they thought life was going to be back when they were young, and if it turned out the way they expected. We should have at least 10 minutes of film hoping for 15 minutes. Our handouts will include our set up of what we are going to do, and the elder's peoples names on them. Our powerpoint slides will contain a movie first then we will stop the movie and explain each thing an elder says, then put some good facts about what we think the future will be in 2090.
3. For the film deconstruction paper I will compare the two LOTF versions and how they are made different, and which one was more closely related to the book. A director could make more action in one to connect to the viewer, but that one might not always be the best
P3
“I was talking about smoke! Don’t you want to be rescued? All you can talk about is pig, pig, pig!”
“But we want meat!”
“And I work all day with nothing but Simon and you come back and don’t even notice the huts!”
“I was working too—“
Page 54
Ralph might like to go hunt and leave the responsibility to the others but he doesn’t. Jack might not be aware of how difficult it is for Ralph, and his hunting isn’t much of work because it is like the other little kids playing, just with a little more purpose. The dialog of the boys is accurate, but it also seems like a married couple arguing. Even thought Jack is older, he is not more mature or responsible. Ralph should just tell Jack to forget the meat because one pig will not feed them forever, so Jack will have to continue to hunt and not contribute.
Now the sunlight had lifted clear of the open space and withdrawn from the sky. Darkness poured out, submerging the ways between the trees till they were dim and strange as the bottom of the sea. The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers glimmering under the light that pricked down from the first stars. Their sent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
Page 57
Golding is stimulating sight. His use of words can be made into reality in the mind. I can see the sun fading and shadows become longer until all that remains is darkness. The starts are revealed brilliantly because there is no light from cities. Smell is also included but he doesn’t specify what it smells like so I cannot relate.
For project 2090 I plan on speaking to Bob, Denny, Laurence, and who ever else my group chooses. Bob works for my father and loves to talk so I don’t really have any questions in mind I just plan on listening. As for the other two gentle men I will use what Bob says and see how their opinions compare. I will video tape each person I interview, but I would also like to have one person come in to speak. I don’t want to make a handout because I see handouts as a waste of paper. However I plan on making a power point with video incorporated into it.
For my film paper I don’t want to compare the two LOTF films. I have seen many movies but I cannot decide which one to use. Depending on what movie I choose I will have different things to say so at this point I have no idea what I am going to analyze in the film.
pd. 3
(2) We will probably make a movie of interviews. We will interview grandparents and wise people througout the community asking for teh wisdom they have gained through their many years of experience. Our handout will be explaining the point we are trying to get across to the audience and some of the main points. We will ask them about the issues in the world and how they would solve them, and we would ask them the most important thing they have learned in life so far.
(3)I am not entirely sure about which movie I will deconstruct but i am picking out one of my own and will try to find similarities and differences from the book and how they can relate in any way.
Ralph:"you let the fire go out."
Jack:"We can light the fire again. You should have been with us, Ralph. We had a smashing time. The twins got knocked over-"
Ralph:"You let the fire go out."
Jack:"We had to have them in the hunt or there wouldn't have been enough for a ring. the fires been out for an hour or two. We can light it up again-"
Ralph:"there was a ship."
this exchange of dialog shows Ralphs hatred for Jack. Ralph thinks Jack is useless and doesn't listen to reason. Ralph is telling Jack that because of his stupidity and bloodlust a ship went by and passed. But Golding has Ralph acting like a grown-up now in his speech.
Jack was bent double. He was like a sprinter, his nose a few inches from the humid earth. The tree truncks and the creepers that festooned them lost themselves in a green dusk thrity feet above him, and all about was the undergrowth. There was only the faintest indication of a trail here; a cracked twig and what might be the impression of one side of a hoof. He lowered his chin and stared at the traces as though he wouldforce them to speak to him. Then, dog-like, uncomfortably on all fours yet unheeding his discomfort, he stole forward five yards and stopped. Here was loop of creeper with a tendril pendant from a node. The tendril was polished on the underside; pigs, passing through the loop, brushed it with their bristly hide.
Here Golding is stimulating the environment around Jack and showing us what Jack is up too. He is sneaking around looking for prey to hunt. You can almost feel the broken twig by the faint path.
our ideas are to make a video of clay figures. we will speak to many old people and talk to them about there pas life and what they did.
Pd. 3
2)
My group is going to be speaking to the elders and the youth generally about their lives. I would like to see the differences and similarities between the generations.
3)Im not quite sure what movie I want to do yet but I am looking.
Pd. 3
Project 2090-- For the elderly people who I will interview, I will talk to residents from Prince of Peace Nursing Home in Sioux Falls. This is the facility in which I work, and I have already gathered information from conversations over the time that I have worked at the home. I will discuss times such as the Depression and WWII. From this information, they will be able to determine how we could avoid WWIII. We must always make checks on the government to avoid a situation like that of 1984. As long as we learn, maintain our intelligence, and keep track of the government in media, we will be able to avoid such an atrocity.
Essay-- I will be deconstructing the Dark Night for my paper. I feel that I have a deep understanding of the movie because I have viewed it 10-15 times. This not only is one of my favorite movies, but it also carries symbolic value. I will discuss many of these points including the double headed coin and the Joker's scars. This is a perfect movie to show the good in people and how chaotic the world can be with a little stimulus.
For the two LOTF films, you could examine what Jordan A is discussing in his post above. You could assert that films should "purely" represent the novels they are about. Or, films should be "Hollywoodized" to attract more viewers to great literature and the ideas that great novels present.
Interesting options you have.
Pd. 3
Project 2090-- For the elderly people who I will interview, I will talk to residents from Prince of Peace Nursing Home in Sioux Falls. This is the facility in which I work, and I have already gathered information from conversations over the time that I have worked at the home. I will discuss times such as the Depression and WWII. From this information, they will be able to determine how we could avoid WWIII. We must always make checks on the government to avoid a situation like that of 1984. As long as we learn, maintain our intelligence, and keep track of the government in media, we will be able to avoid such an atrocity.
Essay-- I will be deconstructing the Dark Night for my paper. I feel that I have a deep understanding of the movie because I have viewed it 10-15 times. This not only is one of my favorite movies, but it also carries symbolic value. I will discuss many of these points including the double headed coin and the Joker's scars. This is a perfect movie to show the good in people and how chaotic the world can be with a little stimulus.
Pd. 3
Project 2090
We are planning on speaking to many age groups because everyone has an opinion, but most of our research will be from elders because times have changed and they have been through all the changes. I believe we are still contemplating questions to ask, but they will be scholarly. Our filmed material will vary depending on the scholarly information we get on film compared to the scholarly information we get off film. Our handout will be points we are making after we obtain scholarly information off film. Our powerpoint will be sweet, and I predict we will have about 13 slides, but depending on the scholarly information we get, I don't have a clue what our powerpoint will be like. The only way we can prevent WWIII and distopia is to learn what caused wars prior and not let the government have too much power.
I'm thinking of renting my own film and analyzing and deconstructing it. It would be good to do group movies and brainstorm on deconstruction.
Pd. 3
Project 2090
We are planning on speaking to many age groups because everyone has an opinion, but most of our research will be from elders because times have changed and they have been through all the changes. I believe we are still contemplating questions to ask, but they will be scholarly. Our filmed material will vary depending on the scholarly information we get on film compared to the scholarly information we get off film. Our handout will be points we are making after we obtain scholarly information off film. Our powerpoint will be sweet, and I predict we will have about 13 slides, but depending on the scholarly information we get, I don't have a clue what our powerpoint will be like. The only way we can prevent WWIII and distopia is to learn what caused wars prior and not let the government have too much power.
I'm thinking of renting my own film and analyzing and deconstructing it. It would be good to do group movies and brainstorm on deconstruction.
pd. 3
(1) page 52
"You've noticed , haven't you?"
Jack put down his spear and squatted.
"Noticed what?"
"Well. They're frightened."
He rolled over and peered into Jack's fierce, dirty face.
"I mean the way things are. They dream. You can hear 'em. Have you been awake at night?"
Jack shook his head.
"They talk and scream. The littluns. Even some of the others. As if-"
"As if it wasn't a good island."
Astonished at the interruption, they looked up at Simon's serious face.
"As if," said Simon, "the beastie, the beastie or the snake-thing, was real. Remember?"
The two older boys flinched when they heard the shameful syllable. Snakes were not mentioned now, were not mentionable.
"As if this wasn't a good island," said Ralph slowly.
"Yes, that's right."
Jack sat up and stretched out his legs.
"They're batty."
"Crackers. Remember when we went exploring?"
They grinned at each other, remembering the glamour of the first day. Ralph went on.
"So we need shelters as a sort of-"
"Home."
"That's right."
They are starting to requestion themselves to if the "beastie" or the "snake-thing" is real, since all the boys are having nightmares in the night that cause them to scream in their dreams. Maybe they shoould've listened to the littluns instead or pushing the subject to the side. They think by building shelters for everyone that they might make them feel a little more at home. More at ease with their surroundings like they would if they were at home. But then Jack just thinks they're all crazy and goes on about how wonderful exploring the first day was.
The reef enclosed more than one side of the island, lying perhaps a mile out and parallel to what they now thought of as their bearch. The coral was scribbled in the sea as though a giant had bent down to reproduce the shape of the island in a flowing chalk line but tired before he had finished. Inside was peacock water, rocks and weeds showing as in an aquarium; outside was the dark blue of the sea. The tide was running so that long streaks of foam tailed away from the reef and for a moment they felt that the boat was moving steadily.
That excerpt was from page 29. It gives us a visual. You can almost see what Golding describes about the beach there. You feel like you could almost be there, since there is great detail.
(2)
For Project 2090, we plan on interviewing people of all ages. It will be good to hear about the ideas of America's future from everyone of different age groups since everyone has a different perspective and own insights on certain matters.
(3)
I'm still not sure about what video I will be doing my paper on.
Erik M--isn't it The Dark Knight, with a "K"?
The scars could be worth more than a couple paragraphs. Comparisons to "Scar" in The Lion King or anything/anyone else scarred will be fascinating.
Ty F brings up the "beastie" problem. It is fully possible, likely even, that if there is prey (pigs) there would be predators...
Pd. 5
pg 70
We'll go hunting every day-"
Ralph spoke again, hoarsely. He had not moved.
"you let the fire go out."
This repetition made Jack uneasy. He looked at the twins and then back at Ralph.
"We had to have them in the hunt," he said, "or there wouldn't have been enough for a ring."
He flushed, conscious of a fault.
Ralph needs to tell Jack straight up that they could have been rescued had the fire still been burning and it was basically all Jack's fault that it wasn't. Ralph is good friends with Jack and he respects Jack so he doesn't want to hurt Jack's feelings too bad. Jack is a little confused on why Ralph is being so pushy, Jack is still excited from killing his first pig. Hopefully from this talk between Jack and Ralph Jack will learn the importance of having a fire lit and how it will help them get rescued. Golding is very accurate in his depiction of the speech patterns of young boys because I bet Ralph was confused on how to handle what had happened and thats what it seemed like.
I can't wait till Life of Pi, so I will be able to show and tell you about my little tiger picture I've used all year. Some of your iconic images perplex or intrigue me, too.
p.5
pg. 33
"Then I'll give him the conch."
"Conch?"
"That's what this shell's called. I'll give the conch to the next person to speak. He can hold it when he's speaking."
"But-"
"Look-"
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pg. 42
"I got the conch," said Piggy indignantly. "You let me speak!"
"The conch doesn't count on top of the mountain," said Jack, "so you shut up."
"I got the conch-"
Jack turned fiercely.
"You shut up!"
These excerpts are very interesting. They show how the older boys are trying to get the kids somewhat organized and have some rules. The rule is that whoever has the conch they get to speak and no one else does at the time. This goes well, except when Piggy has it. When Piggy has it he just gets ignored and made fun of when in actuality he has the best ideas.
pg. 43
His voice lifted into the whine of virtuous recrimination. They stirred and began to shout him down.
In this excerpt I can imagne Piggy's voice booming throughout the island very easily, that is a very descriptive sentence and very unlike Piggy to stand up for himeself. Normally he would just listen to Ralph and Jack and not say anything back.
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page 25
"You told 'em. After what I said."
..."After I said I didnt't want--"
"What on Earth are you talking about?"
"About being called Piggy. I said I didn't care as long as they didn't call me Piggy; an' I said no to tell and then you went an' said straight out--"
..."Better Piggy than Fatty,"
This reveals that Piggy is very insecure about himself (made fun of alot at school/life) and Ralph acts like a leader pushing the weaker people that would interfere out of the way. Ralph doens't apologize to Piggy he just says that there are worse nicknames than Piggy. Piggy wants to be a leader and have a proper name but gets put in his place with Piggy.
page 57
Now the sunlight had lifted clear of the open space and withdrawn from the sky. Darkness poured out, submerging the ways between the trees till they were dim and strange as the bottom of the sea.
This excerpt appeals the sight because everything mentioned can only be seen.
2)
we can prevent WWIII by listening to our elders and history classes so history doens't repeat itself. We will always have someone that wants to cause a huge problem like Hitler/Stalin to ruin a huge group of people, but the more we know about the problem, the sooner we can fix it and make sure it doens't happen. We remain unique by expressing ourself by what we wear, listen to, drive, or any activities we attend. You don't have to kill mass amounts of people to be unique, just act different.
3)
I think I am still leaning toward comparing the two LOTF films that we watch. A director could make LOTF differently buy acctually using British private school kids in the film as more of an authentic feel and then they will be more of a survival thing, not just acting but a real experience. Still helping them live on the island but keeping the experience the same.
Pd 5
Pg. 36
Piggy knelt by him, one hand on the great shell, listening and interpreting to the assembly.
"He wants to know what you're going to do about the snake-thing."
Ralph laughed and the other boys laughed with him. The small boy twisted further into himself.
"Tell us about the snake-thing."
Now he says it was a beastie."
"Beastie?"
"A snake-thing. Ever so big. He saw it."
"where?"
"In the woods."
Either the wandering breezes or perhaps the decline of the sun allowed a little coolness to lie under the trees. The boys felt it and stirred restlessly.
The boys try be tough. And said there is no such of the beast. But actually they are nervous after the little boy tells them that the beast is in the wood. Sometime the people are afraid of something but they hide it and try to show tougher than that. Same as Hitler, he is afraid that people will became against him so he wants to kill the Jews or someone who are different or have some problems.
When the last passage said about the wood after the boy tells about the beasts, it made my hair stood up. It is creepy. Same I am afraid of dark, not because of the monster. No. A reason is I can not hear or see in the dark. It cause me became blind and deaf and my body became feel the things more. If I feel something move, it’s afraid me. Because I do not know what is out in the dark. What if some person stands behind me when I can not hear it. That is afraid me. Same as the boys, they are afraid because they do not know what is on the island and the boy told the boys that the beast is on the island. It is afraid them.
"Look! we've killed a pig- we stole up on them-we got in a circle-"
voices broke in from the hunters.
""we got in a circle-"
" we crept up-"
"The pig squealed-"
...
Ralph spoke.
"you let the fire go out."
"we can light the fire again. You should have been with us, Ralph. We had a smashing time. The twins got knocked over-"
"we hit the pig-"
"- i fell on top-"
" i cut the pigs throat" said Jack....
Ralph spoke again, hoarsley. He had not moved.
"you let the fire go out."
I believe what is not being said is Ralphs true feelings. The whole time Jack and the twins are just bragging about how much fun they had and how they got this huge pig but in reality they didn't do their most important job when there was a ship near. They let the fire go out and thats all that matters to Ralph. They could've been saved but all Jack cared about was getting the pig. I think Ralph needs to express his feelings more instead of just sayin you left the fire go out over and over. Maybe Ralph is so angry with Jack if he speaks he'll blow up.
Ralph's mouth watered. He meant to refuse meat, but his past diet of fruit and nuts, with and aodd crab or fish, gave him too little resistance. He accepted a piece of half-raw meat and gnawed it like a wolf.
This paragraphy has a sense of taste. You can imagine how badly these boys just want a huge hamburger or normal food and are living off these fruits and exotic fish. Ralph as the leader doesn't want to except this meat becuase he wants the other kids to eat it and enjoy it and wants to proove he doesn't need meat to survive. Ralph is all about building the shelter and keeping the fire going so they'll get rescued unlike jack who the only thing on his mind is to get meat. When Ralph eats the meat for the first time you can almost just taste it while the author is describing it the meat of this can't be that good because its prepaired by young boys but they don't care aslong as they have meat.
My group Holly, Kelsey, Erin , Nick and myself plan on interviewing elders at Bethany Meadows i know of due to working there. We also might interview some of our family friends who have been in past bad experiences just to make it more interesting. We plan to ask them questions on how their up bringing was and what the struggles in there life were such as war, the great depression and other world tragedies. We can ask them if they've lived in the US their whole life and if not how was the transition over here bad/good. How did they adjust to living they way they are now and how can we improve our society so our kids can live just as good as we are. Our handout will maybe have information about each one of our people or maybe different people of different ages im not sure. We will have 15 minutes of video and a power point consisting of all our information.
For my film deconstruction paper i plan on doing a film which i have not decided yet. Possibly Ladder 49 due to all the grief in it and real life situations i think i could get alot from it and write a pretty decent paper. The film has many aspects of life such as death, marriage, having children, and dangerous career fields. It definetely makes you think and will bring thoughts to your head.
Pd.1
(1)pg.45
"I got the conch," said Piggy bleakly. He turned to Ralph. "I got the conch, ain't I Ralph?"
Unwillingly Ralph turned away from the splendid, awful sight.
"What's that?
"The conch. I got a right to speak."
The twins giggled together.
-Ralph should of let Piggy speak because he is the one who made up the rule that whoever has the conch has the right to speak. But everybody just ignores Piggy. Piggy is trying so hard but they judge him and ignore him. Ralph is being ignorant and not letting him talk with his own rule. Piggy is the mastermind if only they would let him talk he always has a good idea, he has an adult side to him that is very smart!
pg. 44
As they watched, a flash of fire appeared at the root of one wisp, and then the smoke thickened. Small flames stirred at the trunk of a tree and crawled away through leaves and brushwood, dividing and increasing. One patch touched a tree trunk and scrambled up like a bright squirrel. The smoke increased, sifted, rolled outwards.
-Golding is stimulating a sense as if the fire was a squirrel and as if the squirrel was jumping from limb to limb the fire was like that squirrel. The fire took over the tree in a matter of seconds, smoke burrowed through the air and fire crawled up the tree. Fire can't crawl but it is a good sensory description for the fire burning.
(2) My ideas for the project would be to interview a guy that is mentoring me for work. This will test my knowledge in speaking clearly enough for him to comprehend my questions. To ask alot of questions to get good answers out of the people I'm interviewing. I will ask them about life and haven't thought a how lot about what I'm going to ask them just who I might interview. I will have up to fifteen minutes of interviewing because I am interviewing people that are very powerful people and know alot and talk alot since they sell intangeable papers. I will find another person to see how each others opinions compare on a certain topic I choose to ask.
(3) I haven't thought about my film paper at all, I have been busy with other homework and working on LOTF study guide and reading because I love the book. But I am sure I will create my own deconstruct paper. I will state the main points in the paper and provide the points in my paper and explain them to create imagery.
pd. 5
1.)
pg. 24
He nodded at Ralph.
"ill come."
"And I-"
Jack snatched from behing...
Piggy stirred.
"ill come."
"Youre no good on a job like this."
"All the same-"
"We dont want you," said Jack, flatly. "Tree` s enough."
They are not saying why they dont want him to come. Do you have to look a certain way to go? Is is really that hard for them to just let him tag along? Piggy is one of the smartest ones there and they dont even notice it. This shows how judging the boys are and how they dont think twice about excluding their friends. Piggy just wants to be included and join the group. Just because hes not just like them, good looking and all, they find a need to make him stay back and not go. Piggy should have asked why he cant go.
Pg.26
Ralph shaded his eyes and followed the jagged outline of the crags up toward the mountain. This part of the beach was nearer in the mountain than any other that they had seen.
This shows how beatiful and different this land is. They have not seen anything like. Its beautiful he doesnt even really know how to explain it.
2.)
For our 2090 presentation we will be going to my work at Greanleaft Assissted living center and interviewing some of the residents there. Also we will be interviewing paiges grandpa and other family members. Im not sure about some of the questions since we havnt discussed them.
3.)
I think for the film deconstruction paper i will watch a movie on my own. We will be spending alot of time on Lord of the Flies so I think I will watch a different movie for the assignment. I am not sure which movie I will do yet.
Pd. 5
Pg. 11
“I don’t care what they call me,” he said confidentially, “so long as they don’t call me what they used to call me at school.”
Ralph was faintly interested.
“What was that?”
The fat boy glanced over his shoulder, then leaned toward Ralph.
He whispered.
“They used to call me ‘Piggy.’”
Ralph shrieked with laughter. He jumped up.
“Piggy! Piggy!”
“Ralph – please!”
Piggy clasped his hands in apprehension.
“I said I didn’t want –“
“Piggy! Piggy!”
Ralph danced out into the hot air of the beach and then returned as a fighter-plane, with wings swept back, and machine-gunned Piggy.
“Sche-aa-ow!”
He dived in the sand at Piggy’s feet and lay there laughing.
“Piggy!”
Piggy confided in Ralph and thought he could trust him. He thought Ralph was his friend and never thought his new friend would tell his secret nickname. Maybe Piggy didn’t think. Why would someone bring up something from their past that they wanted to forget? I guess Piggy’s learning who his real friends are… or maybe even the fact that he doesn’t have any.
Pg. 68-69
Behind Jack walked the twins, carrying a great stake on their shoulders. The gutted carcass of a pig swung from the stake, swinging heavily as the twins toiled over the uneven ground. The pig’s head hung down with gaping neck and seemed to search for something on the ground. At last the words of the chant floated up to them, across the bowl of blackened wood and ashes.
This has turned into a game of survival. Catching and killing a pig would have to set the boys on an amazing high. Not only do they have something to eat besides fruit, but they have the satisfaction of killing and preparing their meal themselves.
2.)) In our group, we are going to interview Casey’s grandma and neighbor, BreAnna’s grandpa, and family friend of Jennifer’s, along with her dad. We are working as a group to come up with interview questions. We still have a lot of work to do but ideas are coming together more and more.
3.)) For my film destruction paper I chose to pick apart at the movie Requiem for a Dream. It’s one of my favorite movies and I can relate very closely to the characters because of things I have seen with some close friends. This movie was even shown in some small town schools to show the effect of addiction.
pd. 5
Ralph!
Ralph looked up.
"We can use this to call the others. Have a meeting. They'll come when they hear us-"
He beamed at Ralph.
"That's what you meant, didn't you? That's why you got the conch out of the water?"
Ralph pushed back his fair hair.
"How did your friend blow the conch?"
"He kind of spat," said Piggy. "My auntie wouldn't let me blow on account of my asthma. He said you blew from down here." Piggy laid a hand on his jutting abdomen. "You try, Ralph, You'll call the other."
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This is when Ralph and Piggy discover the conch. This shows that Piggy has much more knowledge than Ralph. Ralph most likely did not think of the conch as being something useful as Piggy did. Ralph most likely would have just thought it looked cool or tried to break it. Piggy instantly thinks of how it could be useful to call the others to have a meeting. Ralph knows Piggy is smart but he doesn't get credit for it because of his looks and the way he talks. Ralph would probably be the only character that would ever even listen to Piggy so it shows that Ralph is somewhat normal to Piggy and that Piggy has trust in Ralph.
pg. 9
The shore was fledged with palm trees. These stood or leaned or reclined against the light and their green feathers were a hundred feet up in the air. The ground beneath them was a bank covered with coarse grass, torn everywhere by the upheavals of fallen trees, scattered with decaying coconuts and palm saplings. Behind this was the darkness of the forest proper and the open space of the scar.
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Golding is stimulating the sense of sight and what the abandoned island looks like. He gives a clearly descriptive image of the island and what the views are all around the boys and the crash sight.
Period 5
(1a)
page 55
"He's buzzed off."
"He fed up," said Jack, "and gone for the bathe."
Ralph frowned
"He's a queer. He's funny."
Jack nodded, as much for the sake of agreeing as anything, and by tacic consecnt they left the shelter and went toward the bathing pool.
"And the," said Jack, "when I've had a bathe and something to eat, I'll just treck over the other side of the mountain and see if i can see any traces. Coming?"
"But the sun's nearly set!"
"I might have time--"
They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate.
"If i could only get the pig!"
"I'll come back and go on with the shelter."
They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate. Alll the warm salt water of the bathing pool and the shouting and splashing and laughing were only just sufficient to bring them together again.
The boys were all fighting and when these two get alway, they are okay and get along fine. They almost seem to be romantically involed of some sort. Kinda weird!
(1b)
page 57
Now the sunlight had lifted clear of the open space and the withdrawn from teh sky. Darkness poured out, submerging the ways between the trees till they were dim and strange as the bottom of the sea. The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers glimmering under the light that pricked down from the first stars. Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
You can see the sunlight lifting and the scent of the island and the ocean. YOu see the stars and the darkness, imagine the moon reflecting on the ocean.
(2)
We are interviewing my grandmother and neighbor, BreAnnas grandfather, and Jennifers family friend. We are going to ask them about what they thought the future would be like and what really happened, what they thought about the world would be like in the futer, and if they really thought they would be alive to see our nation being led by an African American President.
(3)
I am doing Now and Then. It is my favorite movie, I have seen it many times. I have watched it since I was in 6th grade, and I pick up different things that I didnt when I was younger. This movie really relates to my life and my 3 best friends and how are lifes are and where we might end up in the futer.
(2) Our group will be interviewing the elderly at Green Leaf Assisted Living where Ally Calmus works. We will be asking them questions such as who was the biggest influence throughout their lives, and if they had the chance to change something about the past what would it be. We will also ask them about their lives and try to obtain some of their knowledge and wisdom. We are not sure on what family members we are going to do. We are planning on having at least 15 minutes of filmed material with powerpoint slides.
p.5
The plan for project 2090 is to talk with some older past teachers, and hit up some of the coffee stop gas stations where all the older guys hang out at on Saturday mornings. We will ask them questions about the Great Depression, WWII and ask them how those could have been prevented, we will ask them their political views and if they think President Obama is any good. I beleive we should be able to get fifteen minutes of video quite easily. We are still undecided with handouts and powerpoints.
SAID BY ERIN SUDBECK
“Oh, Shut up!”
“I got the conch,” said Piggy, in a hurt voice. “I got a right to speak”
They look at him with eyes that lacked interest in what they saw, and coked ears at the drum-roll of the fire. Piggy glanced nervously into hell and cradled the conch.
“We go to let that burn out now. And that was our firewood.”
He licked his lips.
“There ain’t nothing we can do. We ought to be more careful. I’m scared-”
Jack dragged his eyes away from the fire.
“You’re always scared. Yah-Fatty!”
“I got the conch,” said Piggy bleakly. He turned to Ralph. “I got the conch, ain’t I Ralph?”
Unwillingly Ralph turned away from the splendid, awful sight
“Whats that?”
“The conch. I got a right to speak”
The twins giggled together.
This paragraph pretty much was saying that whoever had the conch could talk. But once Piggy had it, it didn’t matter if he did. No one would listen to him just because he is fat and different from the rest. Kids just laughed at him when he said he had the conch and had the right to speak. Almost everyone could careless what Piggy has to say. Ralph felt bad but didn’t say anything because he didn’t want his reputation to become bad if he took Piggy’s side so he just didn’t say anything and made Piggy feel worse about himself.
Here the beach was interrupted abruptly by the square motif of landscape; a great platform of pink granite thrust up uncompromising through forest and terrace and sand and lagoon to make a raise jetty four feet high. The top of this was covered with a thin layer of soil and coarse grass and shaded with young palm tress. There was no enough soil for them to grow to any height and when they reach perhaps twenty feet they fell and dried, forming a criss-cross pattern of trunks, very convenient to sit on. The palms that still stood made a green roof, covered the lagoon.
My group will mostly like go to Bethany Meadows to interview people since Meghan works there. We also are going to ask friends family member. We might interview kids from different ages also. In being unique I guess we are going to bring out our humors. Get advice from people about being better Americans.
I’m thinking about doing Garden State or a movie with a lot of confusing information in it. I am thinking about looking for a movie with a lot of information so I have a lot of things to write about.
period 5
page 45
"and thats not all. them kids. the little uns. who took any notice of em? who knows how many we got?" Ralph took a sudden step forward. "I told you to. i told you to get a list of names!" "how could i," cried Piggy indignantly, "all by myself? they waited for two minutes, then they fell in the sea; they went into the forest; they just scattered everywhere. how was i to know which was which?"
Ralph is getting angry at piggy for not paying attention to the children. but piggy says all of the children took off and he cant find them now.
49
the silence of the forest was more oppressive that the heat, and at this hour of the day there was not even the whine of insects. only when jack himself roused a gaudy bird from a primitive nest of sticks was the silence shattered and echoes set ringing by a harsh cry that seemed to come out of the abyss of ages. jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath, and for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees.
This is sight. he is trying to show us what everything looks like in that spot. it is also sound. the bird calls.
(2)
I think our group, Casey, Jen, Tanya, and BreAnna(me), is going to interview our grandparents and caseys neighbor. we will ask them about there past expeirences with government and just some others that come to mind. we will have possibly much more than 15 minutes of material we can use. i think we are going to do a poster. about how the government could possibly become corupt and about how the government/society controls us. we can become better americans if we dont listen to the government. i think we need laws for the society to work well together. remain unique by staying to yourself, dont listen to other people.
(3)
I am going to select my own movie. I was thinking about doing Sweeney Todd or Across the Universe. They both deal with problems we have/had in society and how revenge can be taken harshly. Across the Universe is about the hippie movement. all Beatles music and it all contributes to then and now. you can put it into things today. Sweeney Todd is about revenge. the songs make sense with what is going on in the movie. there is alot of killing also.
Period 5
1)"We haven't made a fire," he said "what's any use. We couldn't keep a fire like that going, not if we tried."
"a fat lot you tried," said Jack contemptuously. "you just sat"
"We used his specs. He helped that way" -Simon
"I got the conch, You let me speak"-piggy
"The conch doesn't count on top of the mountain, so you shut up" -Jack
"I got the conch in my hand"-Piggy
Even though Jack doesn't say that Piggy is not important and neither is what he says, he puts that idea across everone's mind. Piggy begs to be listened to just like throughout most of the story so far. I think that the boys would actually talk like this because they made up a rule that "the conch doesn't count on the mountain" like little kids do. This sets the mood of no one ever listening to Piggy or letting him express his thoughts even though everyone else has had a chance.
"The sun in the west was a drop of burning gold that slid nearer and nearer the sill of the world. All at once they were aware of the evening as the end of light and warmth."
Golding is stimulating our sense of sight by talking about the sun and the way it sets. He is also talking about a sense of feel when he describes the light and warmth.
2)We are going to speak to Casey's grandma and neighbor, Breanna's grandma, a family friend of mine that i've known for years, and my dad (whose 50 but will add comic relief). We will ask them what they thought the future would be like when they were younger and compare it to how it actually turned out. How they reacted to certain events or inventions that came about as they grew older. Then we will ask them what the future might be like and how/if we can prevent certain bad events from hapening. We will have the 15 mins of movie for sure. We're still coming up with ideas for the powerpoint.
3)The movie i chose for my paper is the movie Donnie Darko. It is about a schizophrenic boy who follows his passion (what he sees) and not reality (the real world). It also talks about time travel and seeing the future. There is many hidden meanings and symbols in the movie. I will have no problem turning out a long paper about it. It also kind of touches on the subject of conformity which ties into the book that we read earlier One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
For our project we are planning on going to the assisted living that Ally works at. We will also most likely have Paiges grandpa as a guest. We will ask each person the same questions to be accurate and make a clean video for it. Our group has to talk more about what are other plans are at this point.
pg. 11
Piggy: I don't care what they call me,as long as they dont call me what they used to call me at school.
Ralph: What was that?
Piggy: they used to call me piggy
*Ralph shrieked with laughter. He jumped up
Ralph: Piggy Piggy!!!
Piggy: Ralph-please!..I said I didn't want-
Ralph: Piggy Piggy!!
I think that Ralph is again showing his superiorority over Piggy. He knows from the beginning that he will be able to boss Piggy around. He realized this by just looking at him. Piggy did not win the genetic lottery so that automatically makes im inferior and succeptable to jokes. I am willing to bet that Ralph is not just saying "Piggy Piggy" he is probably making a funny face and dancing around piggy, sort-of taunting him. He is alone with Piggy which is usually better, because when boys are with their group of friends, they tend to be more cruel because they want to show off, and they have their frineds to back them up if needed.
Second Excerpt:
pg. 12
A great platform of pink granite thrust up umcompromisingly through forest and terrace and sand and lagoon to make a raised jetty four feet high. The top of this was covered with a thin layer of soil and coarse grass and shaded with young palm trees. There was not enough soil of them to grow to any height and when they reached perhaps twenty feet they fell and dried, forming a criss-cross pattern of trunks, very convenient to sit on. The palms that still stood made a green roof, covered on the underside with a quivering tangle of reflections from the lagoon.
This excerpt uses the sense of sight. It explains in such great detail that it makes it seem as if you are there yourself. I read it and I immediately got a great mental picture. It didn't require any re-reading to understand what they were describing, and it was very easy to have a mental picture and to be able to see what Ralph and Piggy are seeing.
2) Project 2090
Our group has not done too much thinking about this project, although I think we should probably get started soon to stay ahead. I also think that we will be more worried or concerned once the essay about a video is over. We have decided that we will be talking to some of our grandparents but we have not yet decided what were doing as far as video, handout, or anything like that. I could probably think of a TON of questions to ask an elderly person about their life as young person, and how things have changed since then and what we can do to remain individuals and not get caught up in other things so much that bad things are happening and we dont even realize it.
3) Film Paper
I really want to write about the move “The Notebook” because I think that there are a lot of deep meanings in it. It is a dramatic love story, but it also has a lot of conflict between people, and almost the whole movie is a flashback, also adding drama. You have the old couple in the nursing home together, and then it flashes back to the couple when they are young and in love. I love the movie and have already seen it about 6 times, so I think that it is a good one for me to analyze.
prd.5
1)"I was talking about smoke! Dont you want to be rescued? All you can talk about is pig, pig, pig!"
"But we want meat."
"And I work all day with nothing but Simon and you come back and dont even notice the huts!"
"I was working too"
"But you like it!" shouted Ralph. "You want to hunt!"
Golding shows the two head boys argueing. They are showed to be like a married couple with Ralph being the wife and Jack being the dad. Ralph is complaining about the work he has to do and that Jack doesnt even notice it. While Jack gets to going hunting and he likes it. It shows how much stress Ralph has with the current situation.
Jack crouched with his face a few inches away from this clue, then stared forward into the semi-darkness of the undergrowth. His sandy hair, considerably longer than it had been when they dropped in, was lighter now; and his bare back was a mass of dark freckles and peeling sunburn. A sharpened stick about five feet long trailed from his right hand, and except for a pair of tattered shorts held up by his knife-belt he was naked. He closed his eyes, raised his head and breathed in gently with flared nostrils, assessing the current of warm air for information. The forest and he were very still.
Golding main focus is to stimulate your sense of sight. He paints a picture of Jack so detailed that you know exactly how he looks. His descriptions of his appearance and his surroundings give the reader a good sense of what Golding is try to convey.
2)Our group is planning on interviewing some elderly people where Ally works. We also might interview young people. We will make some type of handout im sure along with a powerpoint to explain our main purpose and show what we are focusing on. We will ask questions about today's society along with older societies. Some questions about America and others im sure.
3)I think im going to do my project on Shawshank Redemption. I've seen it numerous times and I think there are a lot of different topics that I can talk about that will make my paper exceptional.
prd.5
1)"I was talking about smoke! Dont you want to be rescued? All you can talk about is pig, pig, pig!"
"But we want meat."
"And I work all day with nothing but Simon and you come back and dont even notice the huts!"
"I was working too"
"But you like it!" shouted Ralph. "You want to hunt!"
Golding shows the two head boys argueing. They are showed to be like a married couple with Ralph being the wife and Jack being the dad. Ralph is complaining about the work he has to do and that Jack doesnt even notice it. While Jack gets to going hunting and he likes it. It shows how much stress Ralph has with the current situation.
Jack crouched with his face a few inches away from this clue, then stared forward into the semi-darkness of the undergrowth. His sandy hair, considerably longer than it had been when they dropped in, was lighter now; and his bare back was a mass of dark freckles and peeling sunburn. A sharpened stick about five feet long trailed from his right hand, and except for a pair of tattered shorts held up by his knife-belt he was naked. He closed his eyes, raised his head and breathed in gently with flared nostrils, assessing the current of warm air for information. The forest and he were very still.
Golding main focus is to stimulate your sense of sight. He paints a picture of Jack so detailed that you know exactly how he looks. His descriptions of his appearance and his surroundings give the reader a good sense of what Golding is try to convey.
2)Our group is planning on interviewing some elderly people where Ally works. We also might interview young people. We will make some type of handout im sure along with a powerpoint to explain our main purpose and show what we are focusing on. We will ask questions about today's society along with older societies. Some questions about America and others im sure.
3)I think im going to do my project on Shawshank Redemption. I've seen it numerous times and I think there are a lot of different topics that I can talk about that will make my paper exceptional.
Pd. 5
(1)Page 40.
He held the conch under his arm. "Piggy! Have you got any mathces?" The other boys took up the cry till the mountain rang. Piggy shook his head and came to the pile. "My! You've made a big heap, haven't you?" Jack pointed suddenly. "His specs-use them as burning glasses!" Piggy was surrounded before he could back away. Here-let me go!" His voice rose to a shriek of terror as Jack snatched the glasses off his face. "Mind out! Give 'em back! I can hardly see! You'll break the conch!"
Jack and all of the other boys are making fun of Piggy and almost attack him to get his glasses. Piggy should stand up for himself more and be more assertive and demand respect from the other boys, because he is the most knowledgeable out of all the boys there. Jack is trying to be the cool guy so everyone will like him and he will get all of the glory.
Every point of the mountain held up trees-flowers and trees. Now the forest stirred, roared, flailed. The nearer acres of rock flowers fluttered and for half a minute the breeze blew cool on their faces. (p. 30)
It creates a feeling of almost being there listening to the noises of the jungle.
(2)For project 2090, we plan on talking to people of all different ages and ethnic races. We are interested to hear what people think about current topics going on in todays society and the different view points from different types of people.
(3)I am not sure what movie I am going to do my paper on for sure yet. If I dont do the comparrison of the two Lord Of The Flies, I will probably do it on The Butterfly Effect or Dazed and Confused.
I have not yet decided on a movie for my essay. I will most likely do a recent film. Maybe one that is in theatres now that I will see this weekend.
period 5
(pg 44-45)CONVERSATIONAL EXCERPT
"Oh shut up"- ralph
"i got the conch" said piggy in a hurt voice. "I got a right to speak."
They looked at him with eyes that lacked interest in what they saw, and cocked ears at the drum-roll of the fire. Piggy glanced nervously into hell and cradled the conch.
"We got to let that burn out now. And that was our firewood."
"there ain't nothing we can do. We ought to be more careful. I'm scared-"
Jacked dragged his eyes away from the fire
"You're always scared. Yah-Fatty!"
From the excerpt it is completely obvious that none of the group members have ANY faith in Piggy. They made this rule that when you have the conch you have the right to speak but when piggy has it all of a sudden that rule doesn't apply anymore. He is treated unfairly because of his looks and not because of his brain and wits. They do not even give him a chance to voice his opinion in anytying. Just simply by the way they look at him you can tell their lack of interest in hearing what he has to say.
(pg 57) DESCRIPTION EXCERPT
Now the sunlight had lifted clear of the open space and withdrawn from the sky. Darkness poured out, submerging the ways between the trees till they were dim and strange as the bottom of the sea. The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers glimmering under the light that pricked down from the first stars. Their sent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
In this paragraph alone Golding stimulates virtually all of your senses. You can just imagine the sunset going down over the ocean and it going from beautiful light into scary, mysterious darkness with just the little amount of light, enough to see the outlined shapes of the trees. I can also imagine these flowers opening up into larege wide white flowers and shining under the light. As this happens you can smell their wonderful scent spreading across teh entire island.
2090
Our groups initial ideas for the project are to interview patients where Ally works (Green Leaf assisted living) and also my grandpa most likely. We will find out interesting facts about these wise elderly. I know my grandpa will have great stories to tell because he was in World War II and always has interesting things to say about it. We are planning on having at least 15 minutes of filmed material but things may change.
FILM
I am leaning towards picking my own movie and deconstructing it but i have no idea what movie i would do. Some movies that i find enjoyable to watch are the notebook, the dark night, stepbrothers, baby mamma, 21, what happens in vegas.
pd. 5
p.42
(1)
"That was no good." Roger spat effeciently into the hot dust. "What'd you mean?" "There wasn't any smoke. Only flame." Piggy had settled himself in a space between two rocks, and sat with the conch on his knees. "We haven't made a fire," he said, "what's any use. We couldn't keep a fire like that going, not if we tried." "A fat lot you tried," said Jack conteptuously. "you just sat."
Piggy is hopeful that if they make a fire someone will find them. But every one else says that they could never keep a fire like that going and they are all thinking that they will never be found. It reveals that Piggy is hopeful and always thinking and that the other boys have gotten used to the fact that they will be stuck there for ever.
p.41
For yards round the fire the heat was like a blow, and the breeze was a river of sparks. Trunks crumbled to white dust.
He is stimulating the sense of sight.
(2)
The plan for project 2090 is to interview past teachers, and hit up some of the coffee shops around brandon. We will ask them their views views on life and what they think will happen if the economy keeps going in the same direction as it is now. undecided for handouts and powerpoint.
(3)
I am going to select my own film.
pd. 5
p.42
(1)
"That was no good." Roger spat effeciently into the hot dust. "What'd you mean?" "There wasn't any smoke. Only flame." Piggy had settled himself in a space between two rocks, and sat with the conch on his knees. "We haven't made a fire," he said, "what's any use. We couldn't keep a fire like that going, not if we tried." "A fat lot you tried," said Jack conteptuously. "you just sat."
Piggy is hopeful that if they make a fire someone will find them. But every one else says that they could never keep a fire like that going and they are all thinking that they will never be found. It reveals that Piggy is hopeful and always thinking and that the other boys have gotten used to the fact that they will be stuck there for ever.
p.41
For yards round the fire the heat was like a blow, and the breeze was a river of sparks. Trunks crumbled to white dust.
He is stimulating the sense of sight.
(2)
The plan for project 2090 is to interview past teachers, and hit up some of the coffee shops around brandon. We will ask them their views views on life and what they think will happen if the economy keeps going in the same direction as it is now. undecided for handouts and powerpoint.
(3)
I am going to select my own film.
pd. 5
p.42
(1)
"That was no good." Roger spat effeciently into the hot dust. "What'd you mean?" "There wasn't any smoke. Only flame." Piggy had settled himself in a space between two rocks, and sat with the conch on his knees. "We haven't made a fire," he said, "what's any use. We couldn't keep a fire like that going, not if we tried." "A fat lot you tried," said Jack conteptuously. "you just sat."
Piggy is hopeful that if they make a fire someone will find them. But every one else says that they could never keep a fire like that going and they are all thinking that they will never be found. It reveals that Piggy is hopeful and always thinking and that the other boys have gotten used to the fact that they will be stuck there for ever.
p.41
For yards round the fire the heat was like a blow, and the breeze was a river of sparks. Trunks crumbled to white dust.
He is stimulating the sense of sight.
(2)
The plan for project 2090 is to interview past teachers, and hit up some of the coffee shops around brandon. We will ask them their views views on life and what they think will happen if the economy keeps going in the same direction as it is now. undecided for handouts and powerpoint.
(3)
I am going to select my own film.
pd. 5
p.42
(1)
"That was no good." Roger spat effeciently into the hot dust. "What'd you mean?" "There wasn't any smoke. Only flame." Piggy had settled himself in a space between two rocks, and sat with the conch on his knees. "We haven't made a fire," he said, "what's any use. We couldn't keep a fire like that going, not if we tried." "A fat lot you tried," said Jack conteptuously. "you just sat."
Piggy is hopeful that if they make a fire someone will find them. But every one else says that they could never keep a fire like that going and they are all thinking that they will never be found. It reveals that Piggy is hopeful and always thinking and that the other boys have gotten used to the fact that they will be stuck there for ever.
p.41
For yards round the fire the heat was like a blow, and the breeze was a river of sparks. Trunks crumbled to white dust.
He is stimulating the sense of sight.
(2)
The plan for project 2090 is to interview past teachers, and hit up some of the coffee shops around brandon. We will ask them their views views on life and what they think will happen if the economy keeps going in the same direction as it is now. undecided for handouts and powerpoint.
(3)
I am going to select my own film.
Nick Polanec Per.5
Piggy stirred.
"I'll come."
Ralph turned to him.
"You're no good on a job like this."
"All the same-"
"We don't want you," said Jack, flatly. "Three's enough."
Piggy's glasses flashed.
I'm often confused by the fact that I feel no sympathy for Piggy. I understand that he doesn't possess the same physical characteristics as Ralph, but looks aren't what make a leader. The reason Piggy isn't leader is because he has no backbone, no confidence and no self-respect, not because he is fat or has glasses. If he ever intends to be heard by the boys he needs to demand respect and quit asking to speak. If he is as worthy to be leader as he says he is, then he should at least have the courage to speak for himself without asking for permission. As of right now, I don't like Piggy. Hopefully he'll obtain some courage by the end of the novel.
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(1) p.22
"Seems to me we ought to have a chief to decide things."
"A chief! A chief!"
"I ought to be chief," said Jack with simple arrogance, "because I'm chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp."
Another buzz.
"Well then," said Jack, "I-"
He hesitated. The dark boy, Roger, stirred at last and spoke up.
"Let's have a vote."
"Yes!"
"Vote for chief!"
"Let's vote-"...
"Him with the shell."
"Ralph! Ralph!"
"Let him be chief with the trumpet-thing."
What is not being said is who really wants to be chief or who other people think actually deserve it. Jack is very arrogant and thinks he is the best so he automatically thinks he should be chief, no competition. But then someone nominates Ralph because he has the conch, but what Ralph fails to mention is that he did not find the conch, and it was not his idea to use it, it was Piggy's but no one even acknowledges him. After hearing Jack talk you hear how he thinks he is the best, mainly because he is the oldest. You can tell he is not use to having someone tell him what to do. What should be said is something by Piggy, even though he is the outcast he deserves to and is most capable of being the chief and he knows, it just shows how him being a misfit is stopping them from doing what is right, and best for them all. Yes, Golding is accurate in his depiction of the young boys because one is how he has Jack talk is arrogant, and Ralph just kinda going with the flow of things.
p.17
Ralph grasped the idea and hit the shell with air from his diaphragm. Immediately the thing sounded. A deep, harsh note boomed under the palms, spread through the intricacies of the forest, and echoed back from the pink granite of the mountain. Clouds of birds rose from the treetops, and something squealed and ran in the undergrowth.
In this excerpt Golding is trying to get you to feel what it is like to be by Ralph when he blows the conch. You get a visual of things scattering and being disrupted because of how loud this noise was. He says that it "boomed", meaning it was not just loud, but it echoed throughout the whole island. He also says it spread through the entire forest, so across the entire island, he is trying to explain how loud this was to a reader, using hearing.
(2)
For project 2090 our group will probably talk to grandparents and either some neighbors or people in the nursing homes. We ask them some questions such as what were their goals when they were younger. Yes, we are going to try to have to fifteen minutes of film in our presentation. We will have a hand out that has our main points of information to share with the class. Our powerpoint will have video, pictures, and a lot of information from our interviewees.
(3)
For my deconstruction paper I am leaning towards doing the two LOTF flies films.
Period 5
(1)
1st excerpt- pg.43
"I've been watching the sea. There hasn't been the trace of a ship. Perhaps we'll never be rescued."
A murmur rose and swept away. Ralph took back the conch.
"I said before we'll be rescued sometime. We've just got to wait, that's all."
Daring, indignant, Piggy took the conch.
"That's what I said! I said about our meeting and things and then you said shut up-"
His voice lifted into the whine of virtuous recrimination. They stirred and began to shout him down.
"You said you wanted a small fire and you been and built a pile like a hayrick. If I say anything," cried Piggy, with bitter realism, "you say shut up; but if Jack or Maurice or Simon-"
I think that this excerpt from the novel shows how Piggy isn't really taken seriously. I think that Jack and Ralph know that these have all been Piggy's ideas and that without him things would probably be going much differently. This excerpt reveals that Piggy is really the smart one and that Ralph just takes credit for all of Piggy's ideas. I believe that Ralph might be jealous of how smart Piggy really is. This also shows another side of Piggy. He is starting to stand up for himself (life when he took the conch) and not letting people (like Ralph and Jack) walk all over him. This excerpt also makes me realize that Ralph not only took credit for what Piggy said but also for what Jack said, in that they will be rescued sometime. Yes, Golding is accurate in his depiction of the speech patterns of young boys.
2nd excerpt- pg. 57
Now the sunlight had lifted clear of the open space and withdrawn from the sky. Darkness poured out, submerging the ways between the trees till they were dim and strange as the bottom of the sea. The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers glimmering under the light that pricked down from the first stars. Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
The scence that Golding is stimulating is sight. Even the way he starts it out by saying "Now the sunlight had lifted clear of the open space and withdrawn from the sky" paints a picture in my mind of the sun going down. And then when he goes on to say that, the darkness poured out, it just paints and amazing picture in my mind. Also, when he talks about the flowers he made me think of a beautiful picture in my mind of white flowers glistening under the stars.
(2)
For project 2090 we will probably speak to our grandparents and neighbors. We will ask things like what their goals were when they were kids, teenagers, and young adults. We are going to try to have up to 15 minutes of filmed material. We will have a handout that has our main points of what we are going to be sharing with the class. Our powerpoint will have all sorts of pictures from our interviewees childhood and the information that they provided us with. We will also have filmed interviews included in our powerpoint.
(3)
I am leaning toward selecting my own single film to deconstruct. I am not sure of the film yet but I would talk about how I became emotionally attacted to the characters. I would also talk about how I would agree or disagree with things that are happening in the film.
p.5
For the deconstruction i'm thinking of either doing The Road To Perdition, or Inside Man.
p.5
For the deconstruction i'm thinking of either doing The Road To Perdition, or Inside Man.
pd 5.
(1) 1st excerpt pg 42
"A fat lot you tried," sad Jack contemptuously. "You just sat."
"We used his specs," said Simon, smearing a black cheek with his forearm. "He helped that way."
"I got the conch," said Piggy indignantly. "you let me speak!"
"The conch doesn't count on top of the mountain," said Jack,"so you shut up."
"I got the conch in my hand."
"Put on green branches," said Maurice. "That's the best way to make smoke."
"I got the conch--"
Jack turned fiercely.
"You shut up!"
Piggy wilted. Ralph took the conch from him and looked around the circle of boys.
Jack is very mean to Piggy in that he will not let him talk even though Piggy has the conch. I believe Jack is afraid that Piggy will have a better idea than Jack and he is afraid that he will be thrown out of power by Piggy. This show how Jack can be a little power hungry and how he wants to be the boss. He doesn't even let poor innocent Piggy say something when he has the conch. Jack thinks he is above all rules and that he is the only one who does not have to follow them. Ralph feels bad for Piggy but he is trying to make everyone happy so he can't give Piggy simpothy. Jack just uses Piggy when he needs him and throwns him to the side when he doesn't. Jack is bullying Piggy more than any other characters bully Piggy. Yes, Golding is accurate in his depiction of the speech patterns of young boys.
2nd excerpt pg 44
Smoke was rising here and there among the creepers that festooned the dead or dying trees. As they watched, a flash of fire appeared at the root of one wisp, and then the smoke thickened. Small flames stirred att he trunk of a tree and crawled away through leaves and brushwood, dividing and increasing. One patch touched a tree trunk and scrambled up like a bright squirrel. The smoke increased, sifted, rolled outwards. The squirrel leapt on the wings of the wind and clung to anohter standing tree, eating downwards.
Golding is stimulating sight and feeling. He uses words to describe the fire. He also uses similies and metaphores. He doesn't directly tell us the flame moved east and down a palm tree. No, he says that it is a bright squirral eating the tree downwards.
(2)
For project 2090 we will speak to grandparents and neighbors. We will ask them what their goals were 10 years from now and how have they changed. We will have up to 15 minutes of filmed material. We will provide a handout that has our main points in what we are going to talk about. Our powerpoint will have pictures that are from the interviewing process, information, and filmed interviews.
(3)
I was thinking of doing my paper on the movie Latter 49. It created an emotional response in me while I watched the film. I think it is a well made movie with a lot of things you could learn from it. I would talk about if i agreed or disagreed with the movie's motives.
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Page 73
Piggy spoke, also dribbling.
"Aren't I having any?"
Jack had meant to leave him in doubt, as an assertion of power; but Piggy by advertising his omission made more cruelty necessary.
“You didn’t hunt.”
“No more did Ralph” said Piggy wetly, “nor did Simon.”
He amplified. “There isn’t more then a ha’porth of meat in a crab”.
….
“Eat damn you!”
He glared at Simon.
“Take it!”
I think Jack dislikes Piggy so much because of his fatigue and he doesn’t even want to share the meat with him because of his dislike so much. Jack is saying that
Piggy can have no meat and he really means that.. and Piggy is upset and doesn’t understand why Jack will not let him have any when Jack is allowing Simon and Ralph to eat some even thought they didn’t hunt also.
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Piggy wore the remainders of a pair of shorts, his fat body was golden brown, and the glasses still flashed when he looked at anything. He was the only boy on the island whose hair never seemed to grow. The rest were shock headed , but Piggy’s hair still lay in wisps over his head as thought baldness were his natural state and this imperfect covering would soon go, like the velvet on a young stag’s antler.
In this passage Golding is trying to get the readers to use there imagination and to get the readers to picture Piggy’s hair and them comparing his hair to the rest of the kids hair on the island. And how Piggy’s hair doesn’t grow like the other kids hair because Piggy’s hair is almost bald and the children hair is long and shaggy.
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My group and I are planning on interviewing family, friends, maybe people our age, and residents at Bethany Meadows. We are going to ask them what it was like living back in the days and how it is different from today. What they would change if they could, and what was there hope and dreams as a young person, and if they achieved those dreams. We will also ask them what makes a person a good American and what someone can do to improve on becoming a better American. We will ask them also what they will do to prevent what happened in like WWIII.
pd.5
1. pg. 8-9
"No grownups!"
The fat boy thought for a moment.
"That pilot."
The fair boy allowed his feet to come down and sat on the steamy earth.
"He must have flown off after he dropped us. He couldn't land here. Not in a place with wheels."
"We was attacked!"
The fat boy shook his head.
"When we was coming down I looked through one of them windows. I saw the other part of the plane. There were flames coming out of it."
He looked up and down the scar.
"And this is what the cabin done."
The fair boy reached out and touched the jagged end of a trunk. For a moment he looked interested.
"What happened to it?" he asked. "Where's it got to now?"
"That storm dragged it out to sea. It wasn't half dangerous with all them tree trunks falling. There must have been some kids still in it."
He hesitated for a moment then spoke again.
"What's your name?"
"Ralph."
The fat boy waited to be asked his name in turn but this proffer of acquaintance was not made; the fair boy called Ralph smiled vaguely, stood up, and began to make his way once more toward the lagoon. The fat boy hung steadily at his shoulder.
In this excerpt Piggy is the fat boy and Ralph the fair boy. You already get the sense that Ralph thinks he is better than Piggy, apparent when he doesn't ask what his name is. Just before this the two boys have a conversation and Piggy is the logical one with Ralph asking the questions. When Piggy is answering these questions you can tell he is proud of what he knows and is logic. At the end of this excerpt it gives Ralph a image of a confident person as Piggy quite opposite following behind him.
(3) I think I am going to deconstruct a movie other than one of the Lord of the Flies. Possibly "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" but not for sure. I might choose this movie because it has a lot of meaning in it and would be fun to deconstruct. I dont want to do two Lord of the Flies films because they would be too similar and I want to deconstruct a newer movie.
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(1) page 35
The small boy held out his hands for the conch and the assembly shouted with laughter; at once he snatched back his hands and started to cry.
"let him hace the conch!" shouted Piggy. "let him have it!"
At last ralph induced him to hold the shell butt by then the blow of laughter had taken away the child's voice. Piggy knelt by him, on hand on the great shell, listening and interpreting to the assembly.
"he wants to know what you're going to do about the snake-thing."
"now he says it was a beastie"
"beastie?"
"a snake-thing. Ever so big. he saw it."
"Where?"
"in the woods."
either thewandering breezes or perhaps the decline of the sun allowed a little coolness to lie under the trees. the boys felt it and stirred restlessly.
"you couldn't have a beastie, a snake-thing, on an island this size," ralph explained kindly. "you only get them in big countries, like africa, or india."
murmur; and the grave nodding of heads.
"he says the beastie came in the dark."
"then he couldn't see it!"
Laughter and cheers.
"did you hear that? says he saw the thing in the dark-"
"he still says he saw the beastie. it came and went away again an' came back and wanted to eat him-"
"he was dreaming."
This passage shows, for one, that Piggy is sort of taking this little boy under his wing, and can relate to him being the outcast. It also shows how Ralph and the other boys just dismiss everything this boy has to say about the beastie, because they just figure he is little and doesn't know what he's talking about. It may show that the other boys are a little scared, they reject this information so quickly that they may just want to believe that there is nothing to be scared of.
(2nd passage)
page 28
The great rock loitered, poised on one toe, decided not to return, moved through the air, fell, struck, turned over, leapt droning through the air and smashed a deep hole in the canopy of the forest. Echoes and birds flew, white and pink dust floated, the forest further down shook as with the passage of an enraged monster: and then the island was stil.
(2)
Our group is planning on interviewing people at Bethany Meadows for project 2090. We will probably video tape them as well. Also, we will talk to family members and ask what their goals were when they were our age and if they changed and if so, why. Then ask people our age their goals and compare them to the older generation's.
pd 5
The secret life of bees. for a movie
(3)
I am not really sure what movie I will deconstruct. I am thinking maybe Radio, because there is a lot of meaning and is very gripping.
pd. 5
2. pg 10
"The ground beneath them was a bank covered with coarse grass, torn everywhere by the upheavals of fallen trees, scattered with decaying coconuts and palm saplings."
Golding gives a very vivid image and smell in this excerpt. You can almost smell the stench of the decaying fruit and see their surroundings.
pd.5
We haven't really talked but right now we have some past teachers in mind as well as some older men and women at the Shell Gas station for interviewees.
As for a movie to write about I have a few in mind, but my main two are Crash and Gladiator.
Pd 5
(2)
Project 2090
My group will ask our grandparents and neighbor about their goals when they are young. We will ask many ages. And how it changed since when they are young. We will try use the film. I will might questions the lady who is deaf. I just want to try different people. She might is part of the history I knew. I will explain it at the presentation or she will explain. Because the deaf students have different experience than the hearing students in past.
(3)
I thinks about do the movie called I am Legend or Loin King. "I am Legend" have some strange like the loin in the city.
The choice of film is perhaps the most important step toward true deconstruction and analysis.
Let these be "maybes" for now.
Page 50-51
He (Ralph) surveyed the wreck with distaste.
"never Get it done."
He flung himself down at jack's feet. simon remained, looking out of the hole in the slhelter. once down, ralph explained.
"been working for tow days now. and look!" tow shelters were in position, but shaky. this one was a ruin.
"and they keep running off. you remember the meeting how everyone was going to work hard untill the shelters were finished?"
"except me and my hunters-"
"except the hunters. well, the littleuns are-"
he gesticulated sought for a word.
"they're hopeless. the older ones aren't much better. D'you see? all day i've been working with Simon. No one else. They're off bathing, or eating, or playing.
simon poked his head out carefully.
(51)
"we want meat"
"well we havent got any yet. and we want shelters. besides the rest of your hunters came back hours ago. they've been swiming."
This is the first fight we see between jack and ralph. they are fighting becaue jack can not get meat and wont help with the shelters and ralph is upset because he can't get anyone to help him. Ralph is does not mean to sound like a woman but the reader interpretes it as womanly behavior. Ralph should make everyone help and he should yell at jack for hunting but heis not.
page 57
The sunlight had lifted clear of the open space and withdrawn from the sky. darkenss poured out, submerging the ways between the trees til they were dim and strange as the bottom of the sea. The candle buds opened their wide white flowers glimmering under the light that pricked down from the stars. their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the land.
This language shows the reader the beauty of the island. the setting is the sunset and the language makes you see the darkness covering the island and the sea. you can smell the white flowers that "takes possession" and encompasses the island.
Period 7
(1)
Pg. 70
Ralph flung back his hair. One arm pointed at the empty horizon. His voice was loud and savage, and struck them into silence.
"There was a ship."
Jack, faced at once with too many awful implications, ducked away from them. He laid a hand on the pig and drew his knife. Ralph brought his arm down, fist clenched, and his voice shook.
"There was a ship. Out there. You said you'd keep the fire going and you let it out!" He took a step toward Jack, who turned and faced him.
Ralph is attempting to hold back his anger at Jack's disobedience, but he is obviously angry enough to fight someone. It also shows how badly Ralph wants to go home. He might have been thinking, "I'm gonna kill you." Because his anger level is peaked. Golding does a good job of putting a picture of Ralph, quivering with rage, into the readers heads.
Pg. 63
He peered at his reflection and disliked it. He bent down, took pu a double handful of lukewarm water and rubbed the mess from his face. Freckles and sandy eyebrows appeared.
Roger smiled, unwillingly.
"You don't half look a mess."
Jack planned his new face. He made one cheek and one eye-socket white, then he rubbed red over the other half of his face and slashed a black bar of charcoal aross from right ear to left jaw. He loooked in the pool for his reflection, but his breathing troubled the mirror.
Golding does an awesome job of describing the sight of Jack's new look. Also, you can almost feel Jack put the clay onto his face as he is preparing for the hunt.
period 7
page 11
"They used to call me 'Piggy.'"
Ralph shrieked with laughter. He jumped up. "Piggy! Piggy"
"Ralph-please!"
Piggy clasped his hands in apprehension. "I said I didn't want-"
"Piggy! Piggy!"
This is a very interesting dialogue between Ralph and Piggy. This exchange shows how big of a jerk Ralph is. Ralph just wants to have a good laugh and there isn't even anybody else around to chime in and encourage Ralph. Piggy is very intellectual, but he is defenseless. He is very vulnerable because of how he looks and some of his actions. He was pampered as a child and he possibly didn't get exposed to much of the world.
page 12
Here the beach was interrupted abruptly by the square motif of the landscape: a great platform of pink granite thrust up uncompromisingly through forest and terrace and sand and lagoon to make a raised jetty four feet high. The top of this was covered with a thin layer of soil and coarse grass and shaded with young palm trees. There was not enough soil for them to grow to any height and when they reached perhaps twenty feet they fell and dried, forming a criss-cross pattern of trunks, very convenient to sit on.
Through this passage, Golding demonstrates his ability to create beautiful paragraphs that paint vivid, colorful pictures. He is trying to convey to us how the large piece of pink granite rises above the fine sand, steamy swamp, and muggy forest. By using these adjectives we are better able to understand the situation in which the boys are in. Golding makes us feel like we are there, to experience the steamy forest with tangled mass everywhere. We can almost hear the exotic birds chirping around us and feel and anaconda slithering by our feet.
pd. 7
(p. 24)
**Jack snatched from behind him a sizable sheth-knife and clouted it into a trunk. The buzz rose and died away.
Piggy stirred.
"I'll come."
Ralph turned to him.
"You're no good on a job like this."
"All the same-"
"We don't want you," said Jack, flatly. "Three's enough."
Piggy's glasses flashed.
"I was with him when he found the conch. I was with him before anyone else was."
Jack and the others paid no attention.**
Jack, Ralph, and Simon are trying to tell Piggy they don't need him at all, probably because of his size and character. When Piggy tells them he was with Ralph when he found the conch, they conviniently avoid the comment and leave. They don't have any reason not letting him go along. Piggy may get fed up with being treated like this. Golding's depictions are accurate I think; he makes Piggy sound a little smarter than all the other boys.
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The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feeet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon. Though he had taken off his school sweater and trailed it now from one hand, his grey shirt stuck to him and his hair was plastered to his forehead. All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat. He was clambering heavily among the creepers of broken turnks when a bird, a visino of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry; and this cry was echoed by another.**
Golding is very descriptive in the first paragraph of the book. He makes the reader feel uncomfortable from the beginning with his descriptive word choices. How he talks about Ralph being so sweaty that his clothes stick to him and his hair being "plastered to his forehead." A "bath of heat" and "clambering" are also good examples. He appeals to the hearing sense when he talks about the birds' witch-like cries. It makes me feel hot and sticky and alone.
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Pg. 25-26 "Look." Jack and Simon pretended to notie nothing. They walked on. "you can't come." Piggy's glasses were misted again--this time with humiliation. "you told 'em. After what i said." After I said I didn't want--" "What on earth are you talking about?" "Ablut being called Piggy. I said i didn't care as long as they didn't call me Piggy; an'I said not to tell and then you went an said straight out--"
This is Piggy and Ralph arguing about Ralph telling everybody Piggys nickname. Everything Piggy is telling Ralph should make Ralph feel bad and make it up to piggy some how. This could be done by finding his rule name an making everybody call him that, after all Ralph is Chief. Some other things Piggy could say is you owe me for this and I want to come with. Let me come and i will forgive or something like that. One other thing is Piggy should stand up for himself and become Chief by force. If he is a fat kid he should be able to take a blow to the stomach and he just needs to charge Ralph and Jack and sit on them forcing them to lose air and then beat them up. If he were to do that nobody would mess with him and he would be feared and people wouldn't mess with him.
Pg.7 The owner of the voice came backing out of the under growth so that twigs scratched on a greasy wind breaker. The naked crooks of his knees were plump, caught and carefully, and turned around. He was shorter thaan the fair boy an very fat. Hecame forward, searching out safe lodgements for hsi feet, and then looked up through thick spectacles.
In this Golding decribes Piggy and you can just imagine it. He does a real good painting a picture of a fat nerd with glasses who can't do anything and shows his fat butt. You can pratically see him in your head and you feel bad for him as the story continues.
We would like to make a movie where Karn hits us for thinking and we over throw him. Also we are going to go to Frying Pan at bar rush when they are drunk and interview the thoughs of them because they are more opened minded. We will interview young and old.
For my film deconstruction i am thinking about doing Step Brothers because i have seen it so many times and there are points to be made. It is funny yet stupid and very possible if the boys were 9 or 10 instead of 40. Also it shows that adults may get a divorce due to kids and many other aspects in our society.
we are going to do a flipping awesome video. with lots of sweet innterviews. i know people from my church that have very intresting lives and cool stories. we could interview all types of age groups and cultures. we discussed the possibility of a powerpoint and a handout. thats basically it. =]
(1)
a. Every hang outside the choir except Piggy's was raised immediately. Then Piggy, too, raised his hand grudgingly into the air.
Ralph counted.
"I'm chief then."
The circle of boys broke into applause. Even the choir applauded; and the freckles on Jack's face disappeared under a blush of mortification. He started up, then changed his mind and sat down again while the air rang. Ralph looked at him, eager to offer something.
"The choir belongs to you, of course."
"They could be the army--"
"Or hunters--"
"They could be--"
The suffusion drained away from Jack's face. Ralph waved again for silence.
"Jack's in charge of the choir. They can be -- what do you want them to be?"
"Hunters."
Jack and Ralph smiled at each other with shy liking.
What is being said is obvious, they are trying to establish a leader for the group, and by the vote of hands, Ralph was voted Chief. Jack isn't to pleased about it, but he still gets something, he gets to make the choir hunters. And Jack and Ralph smiling at each other with shy liking, that could be determined in many different ways. After Jack says he wants them to be hunters, they smile at each other? I'm getting odd vibes about what it could mean.
b. 'The sun in the West was a drop of burning gold that slid nearer the sill of the wrold. All at once they were aware of the evening as the end of light and warmth.'
He touches on the senses of sight, and feeling. Sighth because of the sunset moving closer and closer towards the Earth, and feeling because of the warmth that going away.
(2) We will go to fryn' pan to invterview drunk people, because they're more open and honest when they're drunk. We will interview young and old drunk people to get the whole spectrum of ideas.
(3) I'm thinking it's going to be fun.
period 1
"If you're hunting sometimes you catch yourself feeling as if-" he flushed suddenly. " there's nothing in it of course. Just a feeling. But you can feel as if you're not hunting, but - being hunted, as if something's behind you all the time in the jungle."
They were silent again: Simon intent, Ralph incredulous and and faintly indignant. He sat up, rubbing one shoulder witha dirty hand.
" well, i don't know"
jack leapt to his feet and spoke very quickly
" That's how you can feel in the forest. Of course there's nothing in it. only- only-"
I think everyone here is scared of the forest and what inhabits it. I think jack has seen something and is just not telling anybody so they wont get scared. Which is smart because the kids would never want to go off alone again. plus there would be fussing and fighting.
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now the sunlight had lifted clear of the open space and withdrawn from the sky. Darkness poured out, submerging the ways between the trees till they were dim and strange as the bottom of the sea. The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers glimmering under the light that pricked down from the first stars. Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island. 57
Gold is constantly stimulating senses, in this exerpt he is stimulating sight, touch, hear, and feel.
we will go to frying pan and interview drunk people, because then they are more honest and open about their idea, we will interview young and old drunk people to get a whole spectrum of ideas
i might select my own film, possibly one of Kevin Smith's many videos which are very biased and stereotypical
pd 7
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pg70
"You let the fire go out."
This repetitoin made jack uneasy. He looked at the twins and then back at Ralph.
"We had to have them in the hunt," he said, " or there woudn't have been enough for a ring."
Ralph had noticed a ship in the distance and noticed that there fire was out on the island so the ship never would get the message. He climed up the mountain and to where the fire had been unattended and went out. A few minutes later Jack came back with a pig and didnt realise what he had done wrong. He would keep going on about how he had got the pig finaly. But Ralph had to tell how there was a ship and that Jacks irresponciblily of leaving the fire unattended may have costed them a rescue.
pg 66
The smoke was a tight little knot on the horizon and was uncoiling slowly. Beneath the smoke was a dot that might be a funnel. Ralph's face was pale as he spoke to himself.
The sence that Golding is discribing is sight. He made us visualise a boat at see with smoke about it from the engine. That was so far in the distance that is was only a dot.
2)
We are goin to make a video. Leah will talk to people at her church. We will interview different ages and cultures. We will talk to our grandparents. We mite do a powerpoint. We will probibly have a handout with some of the people we interviewed.
3)
I'm thinking about doing a movie on my own if I can find one that I want to do.
i believe i am going ot use 300 as a boive because it is factual and also somewhat fiction.
Is Golding's description ever too much? Distracting, even tedious? Annoying, even off-putting?
pd 7
(1) pg. 24
"i'll come."
"and I-"
Jack snatched from behind a sizable sheath-knife and clouted it into a trunk. The buzz rose and died away.
"You're no good on a job like this."
"All the same-"
"We don't want you," said Jack, flatly. "Three's enough"
Piggy's glasses flashed
"I was with him when he found the counch. I was with him before anyone else was."
What the Ralph wants to say is we don't want you to go piggy, your bigger, more clumsy, and you'll just be a nuicance and we don't want you to come. Jack doesn't cover this as much he just says we don't want you and three is enough. This reveals how Ralph is the leader but he is sympathetic towards Piggy in a way, or that Ralph doesn't want/like to be mean to others and has to beat around telling the blunt truth to not hurt Piggy's feelings. Jack on the other hand is rutheless and has "no heart" so to say, he picks on piggy and lays it out bluntly that they do not want Piggy to come along. So jack is passionate/ not reasonable while ralph is reasonable. I think piggy is getting the message just ralph is more nice about saying hey we don't think you should go along you wouldn't be good at this while jack is saying hey we don't want you to at all. It's hard to tell piggy that he is fat, slow, and clumsy and that climbing up the mountain and around the island would not be a strength of his, but it is the truth and its better than lying or just being blunt about we don't like you end of story approach that jack uses. Golding is very accurate on how he is portraying how young boys speak and act towards each other especially how some don't want to be mean and lie or don't tell the truth while others are blunt and say mean things.
pg. 57
Now the sunlight had lifted clear of the open space and withdrawn from the sky. Darkness poured out, submerging the ways between the trees till they were dim and strange in the bottom of the sea. The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers glimmering under the light that pricked down from the first stars. Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
-Golding is beautifully describing the island before the night, he is appealing to how the sun is setting and the flowers, and to our scent by the smell of the candle buds taking over the island.
(2)
We will interview different subjects from a wide range of ages and groups/cliques. We want to have a younger person, a person our age, a teacher, maybe someone who is "rich" and one is of average income, maybe a teacher or something. We wanna interview the regulars like us mostly to view their ideas instead of the people who already have "power". We want to ask them common questions and questions related to the structure of society, thinking for ourselves, economy, and where will we be in ten years? Yes we will have 15 minutes of filmed material. We will try to have a handout on either a study or what our interviewees say. We will do powerpoint slides on what we think the future will be like, what is bad/good, how can we prevent and what everyone else thinks.
(3) I'm thinking of a movie like freedom writers or something like maybe friday night lights. I'm defintitely towards the selecting my own film to deconstruct... I think that Friday Night Lights is most likely my top choice and i'd talk about racism, working hard and not winning like the reality of life.
Repelling--that's the word. Is this novel's description ever repelling?
p.7
We will make a video interview with various people of various ages. We will ask questions about what their dreams were when they were young and how they changed as they got older. We could interview ourselves and people that everyone knows. We will probably make some sort of powerpoint and have a handout about other studies about the future and what many people think. We will leave a lot of stuff as open ended questions so students can ask themselves questions as we go. This will result in maximum learning.
I am thinking of writing about Fight Club, Big Fish, American Psycho, or American Beauty. All of those movies have great potential for this project.
I don't think it's repelling. It's almost like a break from the plot. He goes on and on about the jungle or something that doesn't have to to do with the boys. I like it.
period 7
page 45
"You're always scared. Yah-Fatty!"
"I got the conch," said Piggy bleakly. He turned to Ralph. "I got the conch, ain't I Ralph?"
Unwillingly Rapph turned away from the splendid, awful sight.
"What's that?"
"The conch. I got a right to speak."
The twins giggled together.
"We wanted smoke-"
"Now look-!"
A pall stretched for miles away from the island. All the boys except Piggy started to giggle; presently they were shrieking with laughter.
Piggy lost his temper.
"I got the conch! Just you listen! The first thing we ought to have made was shelters down there by the beach. It wasn't half cold down there in the night. But the first time Ralph says fire you goes howling and screaming up this here mountain. Like a pack of kids!"
This passage shows that Piggy wants to take control and be civilized by building a shelter. He wants to act older and its ironic how he calls everybody else a pack of kids when yet, he is and the others are kids. The others are being immature while Piggy has the conch and wants to talk. This shows Piggy acts older than his age and the other characters don't respect him. Piggy will now understand if anything needs to get done, he will have to do it. Golding shows good detail of how choir boys would talk.
page 58
The first rhythm that they became used to was the slow swing from dawn to quick dusk. They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten.
Golding shows us this by giving a visual so we can see as we read.
We will interveiw different subjects from a wide range of ages and groups. We want to have a younger person, a person our age, a teacher, maybe someone who is rich and one with a average income. We might interveiw some poor and some people just sliding by, doing what they need to do. We will have a 15 minute video and powerpoint. Teaching us these things makes us think about the future to prevent this from actually happening.
Then for my deconstruction project i am thinking about the movie, shooter or 4 brothers. I will anazlyze these films and bring it all together with a paper.
(1) “You told ‘em. After what I said.”
His face flushed, his mouth trembled.
“After I said I didn’t want—“
“What on earth are you talking about?”
“About being called Piggy. I said I didn’t care as long as they didn’t call me Piggy; an’ I said not to tell and then you went an’ said straight out—“ {25}
Piggy should be telling Ralph about how bad and degrading that makes him feel. Piggy’s words are letting Ralph know that he is valuable and words do hurt. By Ralph telling the others what he was specifically told not to say, shows that Ralph doesn’t have respect for Piggy. I believe that Golding did do an accurate job in the speech patterns of the boys, the language seems to be shortened to show the actual way they speak.
The shore was fledged with palm trees. These stood or leaned or reclined against the light and their green feathers were a hundred feet up in the air. The ground beneath them was a bank covered with coarse grass, torn everywhere by the upheavals of fallen trees, scattered with decaying coconuts and palm saplings. Behind this was the darkness of the forest proper and the open space of the scar. “Ralph stood, one hand against a grey trunk, and screwed up his eyes against the shimmering water. Out there, perhaps a mile away, the white surf flanked on a coral reef, and beyond that the open sea was dark blue. {10}
Golding uses these descriptive words to describe the scene. He uses the sense of sight to describe the scene.
We will go to Frying Pan to get the view points as people come in from their nightly occasions. We will interview them for their viewpoints when they are in their most open state of mind.
I think I will do LOTF for my paper. The directors can make the movies different by simply never seeing the others film, therefore never knowing what the other did.
Period 7
(2)
We will be making a video and will hopefully be able to get 15 minutes worth of quality film. We are going to interview people about life.
(3)
I'm going to deconstruct a single, epic, film.
Different directors could place the boys in different locations than islands, just like the Leonardo DeCaprio version of Romeo and Juliet.
DiCaprio
Pd. 7
[passage 1]
"We want meat."
"Well, we haven't got any yet. And we want shelters. Besides, the rest of your hunters came back hours ago. They've been swimming."
"I went on,"said Jack. "I let them go. I had to go on. I-"
He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up.
"I went on. I thought, by myself-"
The madness came into his eyes again.
"I thought I might kill."
"But you didn't."
"I thought I might."
Some hidden passion vibrated in Ralph's voice.
"But you haven't yet."
This passage is the beginning of a fight between Ralph and Jack. Jack is obviously becoming more animal-like the longer he is on the island. He wants meat and he feels as though he needs to have it. I don't think he just wants to kill for the meat, however. I think he is becoming more savage and just wants to kill. Ralph is trying to talk sense into Jack. They haven't been able to kill it yet, and they need shelters, but Jack is unable to be reasoned with.
[passage 2]
There was pushing and pulling and officous cries. Ralph moved the lenses back and forth, this way and that, till a glossy white image of the declining sun lay on a piece of rotten wood. Almost at once a thin trickle of smoke rose up and made him cough. Jack knelt too and blew gently, so that the smoke drifted away, thickening, and a tiny flame appeared. The flame, nearly invisible at first in that bright sunlight, enveloped a small twig, grew, was enriched with color and rached up to a branch which exploded with a sharp crack. The flame flapped higher and the boys broke into a cheer.
In this paragraph, Golding is stimulating our sense of sight and hope. You think that maybe the fire won't start, but then the fire takes hold and rages on.
We're making a video with a whole bunch of interviews and relevant stories. I have no idea what we'll talk to them about, but we have a few ideas about where to find these people. I don't think we, as individuals can prevent a WWIII.
I'm planning on selecting my own movie for the film deconstruction paper. I don't know which movie I'll do it on, but I'll do research and let you know.
For our project 2090 we plan on conducting several interviews as well as putting together a short film. We want our test subjects to be not only from a wide range of ages, but also a wide array of situations. We will interview both average people and people who are wealthier. Also, we will interview somebody who is just sliding by and get their opinions on some interesting questions. These questions will vary from easy questions such as how do you like to spend your spare time to harder ones such as where do you see us in 10 years.
For my deconstruction project I plan to analyze a movie that I own and enjoy so that watching it many times is not boring. I do not have much interest in comparing and contrasting the two Lord of the Flies Films at this point. However, if a really enjoy these two films then I might reconsider my decision.
Period 3
WE are going to speak to older people i don't know frow where though yet. WE will ask them questions about how life has changed since they have gotten older and how it was differnt from when they were young. WE will ask them for advice and what their hopes and dreams where when they were younger and how they have changed throughout their lives. I think we will have close to fifteen minutes of filmed material with our group and from the people that we interviewed. I think our hndouts will probably include some stuff about the people that we interview and other things that we will talk about. Our slides will probably talk bout what we learned from the people that we interview and other information.
Right now I am leanin towards comparing the two LOTF films. The two directors will probably make the movie from the way that they viewed the book and make it how they say the book from Goldings view point.
pd.1
I think my group will get some good interviews from experianced elders that have been through alot in life and ask them about our age group these days and ask them what we need to do. I think to prevent distopia we people do need to stay educated so our government doesnt take over and we need to slow down on technology so we dont get ahead of ourselves and mess things up. We will video our interviews so everyone can see who we are talking to.
I think I am going to use my own movie to deconstruct and I'm thinking about doing the movie 3:10 to Yuma because it has so much irony in it and I think it is one of the best movies I have seen. The dad becomes a hero to his son finally and the bad guy shows he has a heart in the end and it's very touching, but very heartless at the same time.
pd 1
I am going to be picking a movie on my own to deconstruct but i can't decide. I have a lot of them running through my mind right now and just cant decide. I want to find one that i can really dig deep into and find symbolism, irony, and just thought provoking items in the movie and put a new twist on it for someone to say yeah i never thought of it like that before.
pd 1
I am going to be picking a movie on my own to deconstruct but i can't decide. I have a lot of them running through my mind right now and just cant decide. I want to find one that i can really dig deep into and find symbolism, irony, and just thought provoking items in the movie and put a new twist on it for someone to say yeah i never thought of it like that before.
pd.1 (2090 cont.)
I have a grandma and grandpa that live here in Brandon who I know would love to answer the questions I give them. I know it will be interesting coming from then. I'll just ask them what things were like when they were younger and how things have changed. I want to know what they think of today's society and the fun they used to have in the "olden days." We would like to film and it we don't know yet if it will exceed 15 minutes. I don't know what we'll do about the handout yet either but we'll make sure it's informative.
3.)
I've decided that I will not be comparing the LOFT films but instead choose a film that I've seen and love. I want to get into the reason characters act a certain way and notice the symbols and clues to the movie's ending. I want to pick out the intentional tactics movie directors provide that give insight to us.
We are going to use about a fifteen minute video as our intro. We are going to ask them if they have ever read these books and about what they were like as children and about what they think or thought the future will or would be like. We will probably have a very visual handout with more pictures than words. I want to include some of my artwork and some other artwork because the idea of dystopia is kind of the idea behind most of my art.
I'm also changing my movie deconstruction essay to Donnie Darko. It deals with overcoming your passion and mind, and also deals with the future and how we all follow a certain path.
pd. 1
(2) (I did the first part in class).
Our group doesn't really know what to do. I think videos and talking to old people. In class I did the first two ex. and didn't get to discussing.
(3) I will choose my own film. I was thinking of doing one of the movies I watched over 37 times! After watching it so many times I can see the symbols in the movie. I also can see the forshadowing that comes forth after watching it a few times. I just love the drama!
P.3
(1)
"That was no good."
Roger spat efficiently into the hot dust.
"What d'you mean?"
"There wasn't any smoke. Only flame."
Piggy had settled himself in a space between two rocks, and sat with the conch on his knees.
"We haven't made a fire," he said, "what's any use. We couldn't keep a fire like that going, not if we tried."
"a fat lot you tried," said Jack contemptuously. "You just sat."
"We used his specs," said Simon, smearing a black cheek with his forearm. "He helped that way."
"I got the conch," said Piggy indignantly. "You set me speak!"
"The conch doesn't count on top of the mountain," said Jack, "so you shut up."
"I got the conch in my hand."
"put green branches," said Maurice. "That's the best way to make smoke."
" I got the conch-"
Jack turned fiercely.
"You shut up!"
Piggy wilted. Ralph took the conch from him and looked round the circle of boys.
During this conversation Piggy criticizes the method of making the fire. There was no thought put into the fact that the fire might possibly get out of control. Jack does not want to hear anything Piggy has to say, but Simon feels that Piggy's brain may be of use, so he sicks up for Piggy. Without Piggy's glasses they would not of been able to even make a fire. So, Piggy indirectly effects the making of the fire and Piggy also brings up the fact that he found the conch. We are beginning to see the importance of Piggy, but most of the choir boys have not seen his significance yet. Jack has definitely not seen the importance of Piggy yet and he starts making rules so Piggy can't speak. I believe that Golding it quite accurate in his depiction of the speech patterns of young boys. If young boys were stranded on an island chances are there would be a scapegoat similar to Piggy and arguments similar to the one Golding portrays in this excerpt.
"Now the sunlight had lifted clear of the open space and withdrawn from the sky. Darkness poured out, submerging the ways between the trees till they were dim and strange as the bottom of sea. The candle-buds opened their white flowers glimmering under the light that pricked down from the first stars. their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island."
Golding stimulates your sense of sight and sense of smell. Golding does such a great job of this that it is as if you are actually there. I have no clue what candle-buds are, but for this excerpt I sort of have an idea. The smell of them most be amazing and strong.
(2)
I think my group is planning of on doing 15 minutes of filmed material. On of my group member's mom works at a hospital and she could help use with the interviewing of some elders. Also, we thought that we could interview some of the local farmers and get their opinions of questions that we come up with. I may interview my grandpa. The one that I wrote about Mr. C that has defeated the West Nile Virus and is currently fighting leukemia. One question I thought we could ask is: If there is one thing that happened in the history of the world that you could change, what would you change?
(3)
At this point I am leaning toward comparing the two LOTF film versions, but I am going to leave my options open at this point. The directors and producers of each film make their LOTF movies different because they read/see things in Goldings book in different ways. Just as you may see something in a way that I might disagree with or may not even think of. If I do not choose to compare the LOTF films I will probably deconstruct an older movie, because I believe they are some of the better movies and because I have not seen many recent movies.
for my diolague it was pages 70-73
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Personally, I think Lord of the Flies is a bunch of establishment bunk. Naturalism as espoused by Faulkner's character Jewel in As I Lay Dying is the real thing. Or maybe as described in the book Black Elk Speaks.
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Pd. 1 Pg. 24
"I'll come."
"And I-"
Jack snatched from behind him a sizeable sheath-knife and clouted it into a trunk. The buzz rose and died away.
Piggy stirred.
"I'll come."
Ralph tuned to him.
"You're no good on a job like this."
"All the same-"
"We don't want you," said Jack, flatly. "Three's enough"
Piggy's glasses flashed.
"I was with him when he found the conch. I was with him before anyone else was."
In this excerpt Piggy is being left out once again. Piggy thinks he could be a big help but the boys judge him by his looks and the way he talks so it seems like he isnt smart. Finally Jack lets out his true feelings and tells Piggy how he feels. Jack wants to look like the tough guy so he speaks out this time. Piggy tries as hard as he can to stick up for himself but they still dont listen to him.
The first rhythm that they became used to was the slow swing from dawn to quick dusk. They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten (58).
Golding uses very descriptive words so we can imagine the whole picture. In this excerpt he is using descriptive words to describe the place and surrounding things.
In my group we plan on talking to some of our grandparents and also other elders we dont know from a nursing home or something. Nicole has a four year old sister and I have a four year old brother that we plan on putting in our project, such as in a video. We have not really talked about a handout yet.
For my film deconstruction paper I plan on selecting my own film. I am not sure what film I will choose yet.
Pd. 1
Part 2 and 3
For project 2090 my group and I will use the wisdom of our elders to better teach us how to prevent dystopia. I think freedom will be a idea that will be extremely important. In 1984 people are not allowed to write and not allowed to think against the government, that’s called thought crime and is punished severely. In 1984 things that we Americans take for granted like freedom of speech, and our judicial system are unheard of and unthinkable. To present this information our group will use video to illustrate how we can prevent dystopia.
For my film deconstruction paper I’m going to deconstruct “I am Legend”. The movie is enjoyable to watch so I wouldn’t mind watching it 3 or 4 times so that’s a good start. Also I believe that there is a lot of symbolism within it that I haven’t been aware of. I think the film deconstruction paper will be a lot easier than the advertising paper because I can deconstruct something that I care about instead of an ad I picked out of a magazine.
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