Blog #10, Unsa Imran, Blogger 7-17

October 4, 2018

Aim: How does William Golding draw on human nature and the Bible to create complex themes as depicted in Chapter 8 of Lord of the Flies.

Do Now: Cluster Work

"There isn't anyone to help you. Only me. And I'm the beast… Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt and kill… You knew… didn’t you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go?  Why things are the way they are?"     (Chapter 8)

1. With your groups, do a close reading of this quote from chapter 8.
2. Annotate important/distinct DICTION. How does the author manipulate the language?
3. What is the tone? The mood?
4. Your group finds this passage absolutely                          because it illuminates                             about the boys on the island, thus demonstrating that the human condition                           .

- The repitition of the word 'close' three times shows parallelism; it emphasizes that the voice is inside Simon's head.

- The author thought the whole paragraph out punctuation wise, for example, the ellipsis(...) and the periods express the emotions of doubt and tension going on inside Simon's head.

- A really creepy tone is being used in this paragraph and readers may think that Simon is going crazy, losing his mind, because he starts doubting, contradicting, and talking to himself. He is losing all senses of reality.

- Although it may seem as if Simon has gone insane, it cannot be proven because people who are going crazy don't know that they are going crazy.

Other important terms: Rhetorical question, syntax.

*In order to learn about a culture, you should look at their language. Some cultures have a lot of ways to descibe one single word and this may show what the culture values. 

  ----> For example, Eskimos have 11 words for snow; it describes their home and the country they populate. 

 -----> There are 15 words for the devil in English, one of them is the lord of the flies, hence the name of the book since Golding's purpose of writing the book was to show the evil that exists within everyone.

***Golding uses kids in his story to show that wickedness is among everyone, even in 9 to 12-year-old kids. The evil is always there because there is no good without bad, but evil is also a choice.