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Bringing Literature To Life--Through Violence! [Tuesday, Second Period]
Today's class was not going to be as polished as Cindy's classes usually were. No answer to any of her contacts in Fabletown or the Farm. Not even to Bigby's super-secret emergency number. That had Cindy on edge, oh yes.
"Today, we'll be talking aboutmeta forLord of the Flies," Cindy said abruptly, as soon as the bell rang. "It's a short novel about a group of British school children, the eldest no more than 13, who are marooned on a deserted tropical island after their plane crashes during a wartime evacuation. The book is an interesting--and, in its time, controversial--depiction of what happens to these young boys while they are stranded. Although they are prepubescent, mostly strangers, and on a beautiful, almost paradisaical island, Golding shows them descending swiftly into savagery and barbarism."
"When they first arrive on the island, the boys still recognize the customs of civilization. They democratically elect a leader, they make rules about who gets to talk during meetings, one of the older boyss take to building shelters and watching over the younger ones to make sure none of them come to harm. But in the intervening days, as fear of a possible 'Beast' and idleness set in, they boys schism and start to become more and more savage. A hunt for food becomes a macabre ritual that leaves a pig's head on a spike and then things take a turn for the worse from there, violence spinning out of control and turning to murder of several of their own. They are in the process of hunting down the former, democratically-chosen leader when rescue arrives, in the form of an adult naval officer. He chastises the boys, saying he never would have expected such behavior from British boys--while glancing backwards at his own symbol of war and brutality, the military transport. Is what they were doing on the island all that different from what they were fleeing from in the first place?"
From inside her bag, Cindy produced a conch shell, like the one in the book. "Golding is playing with some pretty deep questions here. He shows a story about the loss of innocence, but there is no external pressure to create that loss. What does this say about his view of society in general? What does it mean when the society of law and democracy they set up at the beginning and represented by Ralph, is nearly killed by Jack, the representative of chaos and savagery? Do you agree with this view? I want your opinions, but only the person holding the conch shell can speak." She held it out. "Who wants it first?"
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"When they first arrive on the island, the boys still recognize the customs of civilization. They democratically elect a leader, they make rules about who gets to talk during meetings, one of the older boyss take to building shelters and watching over the younger ones to make sure none of them come to harm. But in the intervening days, as fear of a possible 'Beast' and idleness set in, they boys schism and start to become more and more savage. A hunt for food becomes a macabre ritual that leaves a pig's head on a spike and then things take a turn for the worse from there, violence spinning out of control and turning to murder of several of their own. They are in the process of hunting down the former, democratically-chosen leader when rescue arrives, in the form of an adult naval officer. He chastises the boys, saying he never would have expected such behavior from British boys--while glancing backwards at his own symbol of war and brutality, the military transport. Is what they were doing on the island all that different from what they were fleeing from in the first place?"
From inside her bag, Cindy produced a conch shell, like the one in the book. "Golding is playing with some pretty deep questions here. He shows a story about the loss of innocence, but there is no external pressure to create that loss. What does this say about his view of society in general? What does it mean when the society of law and democracy they set up at the beginning and represented by Ralph, is nearly killed by Jack, the representative of chaos and savagery? Do you agree with this view? I want your opinions, but only the person holding the conch shell can speak." She held it out. "Who wants it first?"
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He shows a story about the loss of innocence, but there is no external pressure to create that loss. What does this say about his view of society in general? What does it mean when the society of law and democracy they set up at the beginning and represented by Ralph, is nearly killed by Jack, the representative of chaos and savagery? Do you agree with this view?
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"I guess in every society there is the possibility for both, and perhaps the writer felt his country wasn't really very civilized."
It was a complicated question. What was Karhide like, really?
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But he was there. And approachable. Sort of.
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