Chapter Two Connections

Ok guys, I'm going to go ahead and put up connections for chapter two, and I'll do chapters three and four in class on Thursday.

The 'littluns' are all scared of the 'beastie.' The older boys try to convince them that there is no beastie, but they end up convincing themselves that the beastie won't hurt them. Only Ralph is left insisting that the beastie doesn't exist.

Sometimes we do this, too. If we're scared of something, we start out convincing ourselves that the problem doesn't exist at all, and before we know it we've switched over to convincing ourselves that we'll get through it. Am I just crazy, or do you guys do that, too?


After the meeting where the 'beastie' is discusses, they go and light a fire. They use Piggy's glasses to do this, and Piggy starts to fight back. He is holding the conch, so by the rules previously established, he has a right to talk. However, Jack quickly tries to change the rules so that the conch doesn't have significance on the mountain as soon as he realizes that he doesn't like what Piggy has to say.

How often do we do this? I do it all the time. If we're doing anything with rules, and I don't like the rules, I try to change them. Even if I've said something in a debate or argument that gets proven wrong, I say, "I meant only under these circumstances!" As soon as my rules or statements have become inconvenient for me, I try to change them. Once again, do you guys do this too, or am I just crazy?


After Jack tries to change the rules, they realize that one of the small children, the one who had been afraid of the 'beastie', is missing. Jack and Ralph instantly blame it on Piggy.

This is so typical of human nature. When we do something wrong, we almost always try to make ourselves seem innocent. We say it's not our fault, we say it's someone elses fault, we come up with excuses... we do anything to get the guilt away from us.


This book is overflowing with little pieces of human nature. We can learn a lot about ourselves and each other through it.

Keep smiling, everyone!

Chapter One Connections

In chapter one, we are introduced to 'Piggy.' We aren't told what his real name is -- we are only told that he is overweight, asthmatic, and he wears glasses. He is given the name 'Piggy' because he specifically asked Ralph not to call him that.

Like Melinda from 'Speak' and like David from 'The Chrysalids,' he is shunned, this time because of his asthma and his weight. However, does he really deserve this? He is the one with more knowledge and intelligence than all the others. It is easy to look at this and find fault with the other boys for their outright cruelty towards him. However, how many times do we do this? We look at people and find fault with their appearance before we even get to know them. We don't take the time to find their inner beauty before we form their opinions of them.

The boys hadn't been on the island together for very long before they appointed Ralph as their leader. This is because all of us, as human beings, need to be led. Even the leaders among us need someone to help them, whether that help is giving advice or leading them along when they are tired of leaving others.

Why did they chose Ralph? It wasn't like he had incredible intelligence or extraordinary leadership skills. He had 'a stillness' that attracted them, even though Piggy was much more intelligent. People do this all the time-- they chose the leader that makes them feel better over the one who would probably do the best job.

Those are the connections I have made in chapter one. Now the bell is going to ring. Keep smiling, everyone!

Illuminating Chapter 1

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There were many memorable parts in chapter 1. Some of them were funny, and some of them probably affect the rest of the book in different ways.

#1. The first memorable moment in chapter one was when they named Piggy. I found this kind of funny, but that's just me. I don't think that Piggy should be treated that way, but it is kind of funny. Some one is probably going to end up getting killed or hurt. What's so funny about this? The rest of the boys call him Piggy for the rest of the...period...

#2. The next moment that I thought was important was when the boys found the conch. They use this "sacred" conch to summon all of the boys around their side of the island. Also, when the boys have some sort of "meeting" they have some sort of order to get the boys to not speak when one is talking. One has to raise their hand to retrieve the conch, it is then that they will be able to share their thoughts or ideas.

I thought those were the most important ones because they both foreshadow things for further events in the novel. I'm not going to tell you why becayse that will ruin the rest of the book for you! =p
See you.

Malick

Summarizing Chapter 1

I deleted this post because the HTML jazz was all screwed up. Please see the newer post above with the same summarization on it.

Cheers

Weekly Roles

Okay---weekly roles have been determined. As we will be doing about four chapter per week (for three weeks total), we will each do four chapters under one role, then switch.

There are twelve chapters total.

Chapters 1-4 (pgs 1-80)
Summarizer -- Kate Hodgson
Connector ---- Heather Shugart
Illuminator --- Malick Ba

Chapters 5-8 (pgs 81-159)
Summarizer -- Malick Ba
Connector ---- Kate Hodgson
Illuminator --- Heather Shugart

Chapters 9-12 (pgs 160-225)
Summarizer -- Heather Shugart
Connector ---- Malick Ba
Illuminator --- Kate Hodgson

Bonne chance, tout le monde!

Cheers,
Kate, Malick, Heather

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Guys, i'm so the illuminator. >=)

On Your Mark...

Get set....GO!

Welcome to The Fly Catchers Blog, a literary study on William Golding's Lord of the Flies classic novel.

There are three of us involved in posting at this blog:
Malick Ba
Kate Hodgson
Heather Shugart

A schedule for writing roles will be posted. The roles include:
Summarizer
Connector
Illuminator

Cheers!
Kate