Fear in The Lord of the Flies
In The Lord of the Flies, fear is the cause of all destruction and violence, which leads to savagery, and disobeying of human morals. Throughout the entire book fear is what drives these young innocent boys into savagery, and what also pulls most of them away from expectable human behavior. Without the normal rules of society helping to guide them, they become disoriented with the new surroundings, therefore freighting them into savage ways.
After the traumatic plane crash the boys became frightened because their world of comfort was no longer visible, and a dark scary place awaited their arrival. Fear inside of them became greater but the boys did not to show their fear. While struggling to get through the jungle Piggy gets caught up in tree vines, frustrated he yelled out “I can’t hardly move with all these creeper things.” (Pg.7 Golding) With out even realizing it Piggy shows how his fear turns things that are beautiful in nature into things to beware. Now with the danger of many creatures / animals, they decide to hunt. Hunt because in the mind of the hunters getting rescued is not in the future, and to survive is to kill, and to kill is to stay alive. So fear of not getting rescued sets in and the children start to hunt and destroy.
With the threat of the beastie the hunters are extra cautious so they build a fire on the beach and they hold a gathering. The fire represent the safeness of light and the gathering keeps everyone together, so as a group, are not scared. They start to dance and circle around the fire, meanwhile Simon knowing the truth about the beastie hurries to tell the boys, “The circle became a horseshoe. A thing was crawling out of the forest. It came darkly, uncertainly. The shrill screaming that rose before the beast was like a pain. The beast stumbled into the horseshoe. Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in!”(Pg.152 Golding) The beast was now turned into innocent Simon and because of the fear inside the jungle, and inside themselves, Simon was brutally beaten and killed by the other boys as the mother pig was with her young. The killing of Simon showed how fear caused disorientation in reality. Simon having no fear, was the one who had the answer. The beast is within us; there is nothing to fear. Simon used no violence and came face to face with the beast. He knew the truth.
Sunday, 28 October 2007
Lord of the flies ... Essay on chapter 1
Select one chapter from Lord of the Flies and assess its importance to the novel as a whole.
‘Lord of the Flies’ is about what happens to a group of schoolboys when they are abandoned on an island following a plane crash. Chapter eight ‘Gift for the Darkness’ has much significance in the novel, as it is here that Simon converses with ‘The Lord of the Flies’. Jack separates himself from Ralph’s group, showing that Jack has now been consumed by evil. The signal fire is moved and now there are two marked rival groups on the island, one belonging to Jack and the other Ralph.
Chapter eight, ‘Gift for the Darkness’, has many themes, one of the most prominent being the Beast, which is the boys’ greatest fear. In chapter seven they had come across a dead parachutist and had believed it to be a beast. The beast represents the evil residing within everyone. The Beast is used as a scapegoat by the boys to avoid self-knowledge. Golding uses the boys’ daydreams to show their fears and desires. The Beast gives the boys’ fear something to focus on. Golding expresses various types of fears in the book and many are apparent in chapter eight.
‘Lord of the Flies’ is about what happens to a group of schoolboys when they are abandoned on an island following a plane crash. Chapter eight ‘Gift for the Darkness’ has much significance in the novel, as it is here that Simon converses with ‘The Lord of the Flies’. Jack separates himself from Ralph’s group, showing that Jack has now been consumed by evil. The signal fire is moved and now there are two marked rival groups on the island, one belonging to Jack and the other Ralph.
Chapter eight, ‘Gift for the Darkness’, has many themes, one of the most prominent being the Beast, which is the boys’ greatest fear. In chapter seven they had come across a dead parachutist and had believed it to be a beast. The beast represents the evil residing within everyone. The Beast is used as a scapegoat by the boys to avoid self-knowledge. Golding uses the boys’ daydreams to show their fears and desires. The Beast gives the boys’ fear something to focus on. Golding expresses various types of fears in the book and many are apparent in chapter eight.
Lord of the Flies... Breakdown in Society
“Breakdowns in society result when people avoid their responsibilities to the community to pursue their own ends.” This seems entirely true. For example, in “Lord of the Flies” most of the kids decide going around hunting and not worrying about anything else is what is important, and eventually turn into savages. This could also be true if the people of a farming community started becoming lazy and stopped caring for their crops and animals. Or, in the military, if the all the leaders just stopped giving orders. Anyway you want to put it, if people don’t do what’s required of them, the world around them crumbles.
In William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” a group of boys get stranded on a desert island after their plane was shot down. Two of the boys, Ralph and Piggy know that to survive they must built shelters, collect food, and try to find a way to signal any planes or ships that might pass by. Unfortunately, the choir (hunters) and their leader, Jack, feel that they must be hunting more than anything. Because Jack gathered all the hunters at once for their first successful hunt, their signal fire goes out. As tensions rise high, Ralph and Piggy soon find themselves outnumbered by the hunters, and their followers, who joined due to promises of freedom, to play whenever they want. Because the hunters neglect their responsibilities of making shelter and whatnot, their “society” crumbles.
In William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” a group of boys get stranded on a desert island after their plane was shot down. Two of the boys, Ralph and Piggy know that to survive they must built shelters, collect food, and try to find a way to signal any planes or ships that might pass by. Unfortunately, the choir (hunters) and their leader, Jack, feel that they must be hunting more than anything. Because Jack gathered all the hunters at once for their first successful hunt, their signal fire goes out. As tensions rise high, Ralph and Piggy soon find themselves outnumbered by the hunters, and their followers, who joined due to promises of freedom, to play whenever they want. Because the hunters neglect their responsibilities of making shelter and whatnot, their “society” crumbles.
Wednesday, 24 October 2007
Maria Z
How to gain a top grade in the exam!!!
1. Only write things that are RELEVANT to the QUESTION.
2. REFERE to the text!!
3. PLAN your answer before writting it.
4. Writte according to the value of the question.
5. Write in a nice neat way, the examinor will appriciate it after marking 1000 exams
1. Only write things that are RELEVANT to the QUESTION.
2. REFERE to the text!!
3. PLAN your answer before writting it.
4. Writte according to the value of the question.
5. Write in a nice neat way, the examinor will appriciate it after marking 1000 exams
Renata
In order to get a good grade, you sould spend at least 5 minutes thinking, instead of just writing irrelevant things. By thinking, you'll be able to make a plan of what you will write. After that you can start writing your answer with your own language and make sure you make use of PEE!!!
Fran Gonzalez-Cos and Daivid Corrado
To achieve the highest grade possible in our final exam, we must read carefully the question and answer the question without waffling. The answer must be concrete and relevant to the question asked.
We love you miss Thompson!!!!!!!!!!!
We love you miss Thompson!!!!!!!!!!!
Writing an Essay and getting A* with Miss Jackie
How to get a top grade in the Exam!! omg! with Miss Jackie!! yeeeeey!
Hundreds of people are taking the same exam as you. Each examiner marks about 350 exams (remember, you are not special).
Only around 20% of people can get the top mark (A*). so you have to be in the top 20% to get an A*. It is all graded by comparison. So if in your generation, everybody around the world your age suddenly become stupid, you may get into the top 20%. But if everybody turns out to be genius... You are screwed... It is veeeeeery unusual for somebody to not get a passing grade. But it is possible. Not probable, but possible.
The exam includes reading and writing, and listening and speaking... well... at least in the 3rd and 2nd language English.
Most people in the UK struggle in the reading bit. So you have to read normally to get better and better at the reading bit. You have to give answers that allow the examiner to give you points. ie. If the question is worth 10 points, you have got to make sure you can put 10 ticks in your answer.
NOBODY TAKES MARKS AWAY!!
Exams are marked through POSITIVE MARKING!!
Examiners have to reward you for what is there, not punish for what is NOT there.
YOU DO NOT LOSE MARKS FOR BAD HANDWRITING!!!
EXAMINERS ARE FIRED FOR MARKING DOWN FOR HANDWRITING!!!
Don't worry... Be happy! It has to be readable though.
Miss Jackie has only had 3 unreadable exams in ALL HER YEARS OF MARKING AS AN EXAMINER! Mostly when that happens is because the student has a motor problem like a broken arm or a permanent motor problem. So better get going and break an arm before the exam. Just kidding... not. Buuuuut, if you have a beautifull handwriting, the examiner will looove you and be more generous with you. So available options are: improve handwriting or break an arm and get a teacher to write for you. No. Don't do that. It's evil!!
In Miss Jackie's words: "don't worry about not taking the book into the exam, I´ve failed more people with books than people without books"
Answer the Q'!!
Anything you know about the book IS NOT IMPORTANT if the Q' does not ask for it!!
If the Q' says why does Simon die, don't go on writing everything you know about Simon, say why does Simon die!! And that's it.
Everybody hates planning, but you gotta get used to planning your answers. The reason people don't like planning is fear. They rather write stuff randomly, than face the fact that they pretty much don't know ANYTHING about the book.
Write RELEVANTLY!! If your quote is not exactly how it is written, it's ok, if you paraphrase, it's ok, if you merely refer to an episode, it is OK!
Use PEE or, as miss jackie knows it, the doughnut.
Sooooo practice! yeeey! get A*!! wooohoo!!
Written by
Santiago Quintana yr 11B
Hundreds of people are taking the same exam as you. Each examiner marks about 350 exams (remember, you are not special).
Only around 20% of people can get the top mark (A*). so you have to be in the top 20% to get an A*. It is all graded by comparison. So if in your generation, everybody around the world your age suddenly become stupid, you may get into the top 20%. But if everybody turns out to be genius... You are screwed... It is veeeeeery unusual for somebody to not get a passing grade. But it is possible. Not probable, but possible.
The exam includes reading and writing, and listening and speaking... well... at least in the 3rd and 2nd language English.
Most people in the UK struggle in the reading bit. So you have to read normally to get better and better at the reading bit. You have to give answers that allow the examiner to give you points. ie. If the question is worth 10 points, you have got to make sure you can put 10 ticks in your answer.
NOBODY TAKES MARKS AWAY!!
Exams are marked through POSITIVE MARKING!!
Examiners have to reward you for what is there, not punish for what is NOT there.
YOU DO NOT LOSE MARKS FOR BAD HANDWRITING!!!
EXAMINERS ARE FIRED FOR MARKING DOWN FOR HANDWRITING!!!
Don't worry... Be happy! It has to be readable though.
Miss Jackie has only had 3 unreadable exams in ALL HER YEARS OF MARKING AS AN EXAMINER! Mostly when that happens is because the student has a motor problem like a broken arm or a permanent motor problem. So better get going and break an arm before the exam. Just kidding... not. Buuuuut, if you have a beautifull handwriting, the examiner will looove you and be more generous with you. So available options are: improve handwriting or break an arm and get a teacher to write for you. No. Don't do that. It's evil!!
In Miss Jackie's words: "don't worry about not taking the book into the exam, I´ve failed more people with books than people without books"
Answer the Q'!!
Anything you know about the book IS NOT IMPORTANT if the Q' does not ask for it!!
If the Q' says why does Simon die, don't go on writing everything you know about Simon, say why does Simon die!! And that's it.
Everybody hates planning, but you gotta get used to planning your answers. The reason people don't like planning is fear. They rather write stuff randomly, than face the fact that they pretty much don't know ANYTHING about the book.
Write RELEVANTLY!! If your quote is not exactly how it is written, it's ok, if you paraphrase, it's ok, if you merely refer to an episode, it is OK!
Use PEE or, as miss jackie knows it, the doughnut.
Sooooo practice! yeeey! get A*!! wooohoo!!
Written by
Santiago Quintana yr 11B
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