You are going to be tested on chapters 1 to 8 on August 7th. Make sure you have read each chapter carefully. Summaries and analysis may be useful but they do not replace your reading.
For that date, you should print all the work that was required on these chapters with corrections and hand them in in a plastic folio with a front page with your personal data.
Happy Holidays! See you all in August!
17 jul 2009
Chapter 8
Deadline August 7th
Read this important chapter very carefully.
Study the analysis in the following link http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/flies/section8.rhtml
Read this important chapter very carefully.
Study the analysis in the following link http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/flies/section8.rhtml
13 jul 2009
Chapter 7
Deadline July 16th
Answer
In this chapter Ralph for the first time enters the world of the hunter. This, and their common danger, ought to bring him closer to Jack. Instead their antagonism becomes more and more open Why? Why does Jack hates Ralph? Illustrate your answers with well-chosen quotations.
Answer
In this chapter Ralph for the first time enters the world of the hunter. This, and their common danger, ought to bring him closer to Jack. Instead their antagonism becomes more and more open Why? Why does Jack hates Ralph? Illustrate your answers with well-chosen quotations.
Chapter 6
Deadline July 16th
Read and study
As the boys sleep, military airplanes battle fiercely above the island. None of the boys sees the explosions and flashes in the clouds because the twins Sam and Eric, who were supposed to watch the signal fire, have fallen asleep. During the battle, a parachutist drifts down from the sky onto the island, dead. His chute becomes tangled in some rocks and flaps in the wind, while his shape casts fearful shadows on the ground. His head seems to rise and fall as the wind blows.
Answer
Piggy and Ralph prayed for a “sign” from the grown-up world and have been given one. What sign do they receive? What does it mean?
As the boys sleep, military airplanes battle fiercely above the island. None of the boys sees the explosions and flashes in the clouds because the twins Sam and Eric, who were supposed to watch the signal fire, have fallen asleep. During the battle, a parachutist drifts down from the sky onto the island, dead. His chute becomes tangled in some rocks and flaps in the wind, while his shape casts fearful shadows on the ground. His head seems to rise and fall as the wind blows.
Answer
Piggy and Ralph prayed for a “sign” from the grown-up world and have been given one. What sign do they receive? What does it mean?
Chapter 5
Deadline July 16th
Read and Study!
The boys' fear of the beast becomes an increasingly important aspect of their lives, especially at night, from the moment the first littlun claims to have seen a snake-monster in Chapter 2. In this chapter, the fear of the beast finally explodes, ruining Ralph's attempt to restore order to the island and precipitating the final split between Ralph and Jack. At this point, it remains uncertain whether or not the beast actually exists. In any case, the beast serves as one of the most important symbols in the novel, representing both the terror and the allure of the primordial desires for violence, power, and savagery that lurk within every human soul. In keeping with the overall allegorical nature of Lord of the Flies, the beast can be interpreted in a number of different lights. In a religious reading, for instance, the beast recalls the devil; in a Freudian reading, it can represent the id, the instinctual urges and desires of the human unconscious mind. However we interpret the beast, the littlun's idea of the monster rising from the sea terrifies the boys because it represents the beast's emergence from their own unconscious minds. As Simon realizes later in the novel, the beast is not necessarily something that exists outside in the jungle. Rather, it already exists inside each boy's mind and soul, the capacity for savagery and evil that slowly overwhelms them.
As the idea of the beast increasingly fills the boys with dread, Jack and the hunters manipulate the boys' fear of the beast to their own advantage. Jack continues to hint that the beast exists when he knows that it probably does not—a manipulation that leaves the rest of the group fearful and more willing to cede power to Jack and his hunters, more willing to overlook barbarism on Jack's part for the sake of maintaining the “safety” of the group. In this way, the beast indirectly becomes one of Jack's primary sources of power. At the same time, Jack effectively enables the boys themselves to act as the beast—to express the instinct for savagery that civilization has previously held in check. Because that instinct is natural and present within each human being, Golding asserts that we are all capable of becoming the beast.
“Thinking, as Ralph realizes, really begins when one discovers that there is more than one way of looking at things, and has to find the truest way”
Answer:
1) What, exactly, are the attitudes of Ralph, Jack, Piggy and Simon to the “beast”?
2) What attitudes to life as a whole do they imply?
3) What does “mankind´s essential illness” mean to Simon?
The boys' fear of the beast becomes an increasingly important aspect of their lives, especially at night, from the moment the first littlun claims to have seen a snake-monster in Chapter 2. In this chapter, the fear of the beast finally explodes, ruining Ralph's attempt to restore order to the island and precipitating the final split between Ralph and Jack. At this point, it remains uncertain whether or not the beast actually exists. In any case, the beast serves as one of the most important symbols in the novel, representing both the terror and the allure of the primordial desires for violence, power, and savagery that lurk within every human soul. In keeping with the overall allegorical nature of Lord of the Flies, the beast can be interpreted in a number of different lights. In a religious reading, for instance, the beast recalls the devil; in a Freudian reading, it can represent the id, the instinctual urges and desires of the human unconscious mind. However we interpret the beast, the littlun's idea of the monster rising from the sea terrifies the boys because it represents the beast's emergence from their own unconscious minds. As Simon realizes later in the novel, the beast is not necessarily something that exists outside in the jungle. Rather, it already exists inside each boy's mind and soul, the capacity for savagery and evil that slowly overwhelms them.
As the idea of the beast increasingly fills the boys with dread, Jack and the hunters manipulate the boys' fear of the beast to their own advantage. Jack continues to hint that the beast exists when he knows that it probably does not—a manipulation that leaves the rest of the group fearful and more willing to cede power to Jack and his hunters, more willing to overlook barbarism on Jack's part for the sake of maintaining the “safety” of the group. In this way, the beast indirectly becomes one of Jack's primary sources of power. At the same time, Jack effectively enables the boys themselves to act as the beast—to express the instinct for savagery that civilization has previously held in check. Because that instinct is natural and present within each human being, Golding asserts that we are all capable of becoming the beast.
“Thinking, as Ralph realizes, really begins when one discovers that there is more than one way of looking at things, and has to find the truest way”
Answer:
1) What, exactly, are the attitudes of Ralph, Jack, Piggy and Simon to the “beast”?
2) What attitudes to life as a whole do they imply?
3) What does “mankind´s essential illness” mean to Simon?
7 jul 2009
Chapter 4 – Painted Faces and Long Hair
Chapter 4 – Painted Faces and Long Hair.
Deadline July 8th
Deadline July 8th
- By this chapter, the boys' community mirrors a political society, with the faceless and frightened littluns resembling the masses of common people and the various older boys filling positions of power and importance with regard to these underlings( littluns). In short, two conceptions of power emerge on the island, corresponding to the novel's philosophical poles—civilization and savagery.
Look for quotations that support the following statements ( at least three for each one):
1) Some of the older boys, including Ralph and especially Simon, are kind to the littluns.
2) Others, including Roger and Jack, are cruel to them.
3) Since the beginning, the boys have bullied the whiny, intellectual Piggy whenever they needed to feel powerful and important. Now, however, their harassment of Piggy intensifies.
4) Ralph and Jack´s failure to understand each other's points of view creates a gulf between them—one that widens as resentment and open hostility set in.
Chapter 3- Simon
Chapter 3 – Simon
Deadline July 8th
- Re-read the end of this chapter from “ Simon, whom they expectes to find there, was not in the bathing-pool......” till the end of the chapter.
- Study the following analysis to help you understand Simon´s role in the novel.
Simon, meanwhile, seems to exist outside the conflict between Ralph and Jack, between civilization and savagery. We see Simon's kind and generous nature through his actions in this chapter. He helps Ralph build the huts when the other boys would rather play, indicating his helpfulness, discipline, and dedication to the common good. Simon helps the littluns reach a high branch of fruit, indicating his kindness and sympathy—a sharp contrast to many of the older boys, who would rather torment the littluns than help them. When Simon sits alone in the jungle glade marveling at the beauty of nature, we see that he feels a basic connection with the natural world. On the whole, Simon seems to have a basic goodness and kindness that comes from within him and is tied to his connection with nature. All the other boys, meanwhile, seem to have inherited their ideas of goodness and morality from the external forces of civilization, so that the longer they are away from human society, the more their moral sense erodes. In this regard, Simon emerges as an important figure to contrast with Ralph and Jack. Where Ralph represents the orderly forces of civilization and Jack the primal, instinctual urges that react against such order, Simon represents a third quality—a kind of goodness that is natural or innate rather than taught by human society. In this way, Simon, who cannot be categorized with the other boys, complicates the symbolic structure of Lord of the Flies.
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