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 * __ Chapter 1: Civilization __ **

Just realizing that they are on the island, these boys are so lost and feel like they are not in control because they are used to being controlled since they are coming from what it seems to be a British military school with the forces being strict on them. These boys, being out of it, goes to elect a leader that will take over these rights and help start up a civilization that they believe they should have. They have choices of either choosing Ralph, a kid that has this conch shell in his hand and the one that helped bring all these boys together. Or they could choose Jack, a kid that is able to sing C sharp, but seems like is ready to take control of the whole island as a Tyrant. Ralph is chosen, and Jack is assigned leader of the choir, who end up becoming hunters. Ralph goes to this area to help get a look around for this area to see if there is any other people, he realizes that the boys are sole possessors of this island as he turns to the boys and says "This belongs to us" (Golding 29). This quote helps make a point to these readers that this empty territory belongs to these boys and are ready to take full control of the island and start a new civilization.

All of the problems that our current civilization is going through including lots of violence and fighting inside of another country against an area that we shouldn’t even be in. However, as of right now, we are beginning to pull out of Afghanistan, which shows that we are finally going on the right side of everything without facing any more problems. Lots of problems that America is going through right now are currently in the process of being fixed and within a few years, this civilization will be improved and be on the successful side instead of the failing side. One problem that has been going for an example is Racism. Racism has been going around for a very long time, and has died down a lot lately but it's still around. That is an example that may eventually die off or stay around forever.

**__Chapter 2: GroupThink__** With this civilization that is in tact right now, the boys realize that in order for a society to work without any problems, they need to work and think together with no problems at all. Even though the idea of civilization also works in this chapter, GroupThink is probably the best source. Indicated in chapter 2, Jack wants the choir to help him out and build a pile for the firewood to use as a source for passing ships to see that they’re deserted on the island. They reach a point where Ralph finds an area that has a lot of wood in it where the creepers are. To achieve the goal of this firewood idea, Jack and the choirboys “found the likeliest path down and began tugging at the dead wood. And the small boys who had reached the top came sliding too…” (Golding 39). This quotes helps evaluate an idea of GroupThink because all of the boys went down into this hole to help Jack and Ralph pull out some dead wood to get a pile ready to start the burning of the fire. GroupThink is without a doubt the best idea to have ready when entering high school or even entering college because there is always a point where people will be working in groups and will be needing help from others, which include opinions. I know I would be lost without this because there is a lot of things that are quite impossible to do when I’m by myself because there always needs to be a group of people so that way the work can be split up with no problems and everyone can have equal work to do without having one person do all of the work and cause a lot of stress to them.

**__Chapters 3 & 4: Nyctophobia__** Nyctophobia is an extreme fear of the darkness, which can also cause someone to go delusional because they can begin hearing things that they may think they hear when in reality they can’t. These feelings will completely change someone from the way they are. In chapter 3, Jack is in an idea by himself when he hears a “harsh cry that seemed to come out the abyss of ages” which causes Jack to become “less a hunter than furtive thing…” (Golding 49). There can be also be an unknown fear, just like how Simon brings up in Chapter 3, when he says “As if the beastie, the beastie or the snake-thing, was real” (Golding 52) which indicates that this so called “beastie” that these littluns are talking about could be fake or even a figment of their imaginations, which brings up the idea of Nyctophobia because they are frightened to go into this dark area and face this beastie. I am usually afraid of the dark at some points, especially when I was a kid. I fear I had Nyctophobia as a kid and am still going through it now because I am scared of being outside when it is extremely dark outside. In my area, there are ferocious animals, such as raccoons and foxes. I despise going outside because I believe I will be attacked by one of them and end up dying. I know I have to face my fear one day and realize that the dark will no longer scare me, but I know that is not going to happen yet because I can’t stand being outside in the dark as a high school senior getting ready to graduate.

**__Chapter 5: Good and Evil__** **Good and Evil** has some effects towards everyone when it comes to being either in the good side or the bad side. Throughout chapter 5, there were lots of people on the bad side that had showed discipline towards each other. For example, near the end of chapter 5, Simon indicates that there could be a beast that is on this island, which is showing that he is supporting the good side where the littluns say that there could be a beastie and backs them up and says “Maybe...maybe there is a beast…I don’t know” (Golding 89). However, the other boys don’t believe that there is one, even though Jack says he will hunt to find one. They all scream at Simon, telling him to “Sit down! Shut up! Take the conch! Sod you!” (Golding 89). The boys represent the evil side because they show that Simon, with him being alone, could be hallucinating as well as the littluns because he is all by himself every now and then. It can be a little difficult when understand exactly what can be considered good and evil because there are things that are done that can be considered good towards one group of people and evil towards others. For example, in just about superhero movie, there is that one villain that wants to do something terrible, like destroying a part of the world, because it can help make an area more efficient and better. These superheroes will obviously understand that their ideas make no sense at all, and are going to stop them to make sure their planet is safer.

__**Chapter 6: Beelzebub**__

Throughout this whole book, there were a lot of uses of **Beelzebub,** however I believe the best part of this idea was in Chapter 6 when all of the boys are discussing out this beastie. Jack, whom I believe is this demon, is demonstrating the use of **Beelzebub** when he is arguing with Ralph about staying in the same area because they believe that this beastie will not approaching their area. Out of nowhere, it’s like his mind has been taken over and believes they should be moving the area and blurts out, “Let’s be moving…we’re wasting time…Sucks to the littluns!” (Golding 101). It seems like Jack wants to head off and leave the littluns behind, which is like a sacrilege because these little kids would not know exactly know what to do if they were left alone. In the current life, there are moments that are expressed outside more than just literature that involves anything when it comes to materialization of evil. There are messages that are made that should be good, but they turn into evil ideas, which can change a world. For example, there are current songs that talk about terrifying events, like doing the most extreme drugs or cutting yourself for pleasure because it “feels very good.” What that message does in the future is that it’ll convince the next generation of teenagers to commit to these types of crimes, which can make their own future turn to waste. These types of messages are not amazing; they end up turning one person in a terrible way.

**Journal Evaluation**

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 * **Analysis** of quotes are accurate and thorough || **15**-13 || 12-10 || 11 || 10-9 || 8-0 ||
 * Personal **connection** responses are articulate and thought-provoking || 10-**8** || 7-6 || 5-4 || 3-2 || 1 ||
 * **Mechanics**, Spelling and Grammar || **5** || 4 || 3 || 2 || 1 ||


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**__Chapter 7 Diary Entry__**

Dear Diary, My name is Jared. I’m not exactly sure how old I am at this point, I could be five or I could be six. Anyway, a lot of stuff has been going on here. It is way too cold to be sitting out here. Ralph, our courteous leader, always knows what to be doing because he is the best leader to have around here. Jack is battling him because he prefers hunting over the idea of civilization, which is a bad idea. Jack scares me a lot because of his evil ways in which he is always thinking about hunting or wanting to hurt someone. I remember when reenacting the killing of the boar and Robert was fed up, he wanted to “use a littlun” (Golding 115). Ralph and Jack have been recently going back and forth at each other, and it makes me think about which side to choose because Ralph has good stuff to say, but so does Jack. Every time darkness comes around, it seriously scares me because I don’t have my parents with me to calm me down and say everything will be alright. I hope sometime soon, someone will see us and come save us.

Goodbye for now, Jared

** __Chapter 8 Diary Entry__ **

Dear Diary, It seems like everything on this island has gone from bad to absolute chaos all because of the pure hatred between Jack and Ralph. Jack eventually lost control and stormed off from the area after saying, “I’m not going to be a part of Ralph’s lot. Not with you…I’m going off by myself. He can catch his own pigs. Anyone who wants to hunt when I do can come too” (Golding 127). I have been tempting to go with Jack all of this time because something tells me that Jack can be a much better leader than Ralph is right now. However, I’m sticking with Ralph’s side because Ralph is more of a civilized leader and I honestly prefer civilization over savagery because I feel like it is better to have someone in control that knows what he’s talking about over a person that is all about killing and nothing else. I was getting ready to sleep when out of nowhere I hear these screams that sound like it was coming from the forest. I look and see that Jack and his group of followers were raiding our camp, but I had no clue why. I don’t understand what has caused Jack to become a demonic figure nor what caused him to break up this civilization that we had. I hope in the future Jack and Ralph can work this out and we can be a civilized group again. One thing that really confuses me is that who knows where Simon keeps going to. I constantly look around to see where he is, but I can never find him. I hope he's okay and has no problems going on.

Goodbye for now, Jared

**__Chapter 9 & 10 Diary Entry__**

Dear Diary, I cannot believe what I had just gone through today. As a little kid, I do not want to be going through the idea of killing a person. I’m not entirely sure what has caused me to turn into such a savage little beast when we see the beast. All I heard coming from everyone was “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” (Golding 152). At first I did not want to participate in this crusade, but when hearing the chant, it’s like I was hypnotized by the idea of killing the beastie that I saw with the other littluns. However, we were all so hyper about it that we had absolutely no idea that it was Simon! I’ve been sitting in this little area crying my eyes out for quite some time now because I’m basically part of the murder crusade that just happened. For things to get worse, I remember seeing Jack’s group come and raid the camp. I was one the littluns that freaked out when the fighting was occurring. While trying to go back to sleep, I heard Ralph mention how he “gave one of ‘em what for…He won’t want to come and fight us again in a hurry” (Golding 168). From that point on, I knew that I could stay on Ralph’s side because he protected us from being hurt. Ralph is my leader. My savior.

Goodbye for now, Jared Dear Diary, Everything has now officially fallen apart. I witnessed yet another killing occur, but this time I was not a part of it. From what I saw, it was all Roger that ended up killing Piggy. Him and Jack were fighting because Jack refused to give him his glasses and out of pure anger, Roger decides to drop this big boulder that they had, striking Piggy. Piggy took a good “forty foot fall and landed on his back across the square red rock in the sea. His head opened and stuff came out and turned red…the body of Piggy was gone” (Golding 181). This has now convinced me that Jack has lost control and he was the instigator to lead to Piggy’s death. I really wanted to hit him off, but I know with my small figure and lacking strength, I would probably end up going off the cliff myself. Something tells me that we are just about to leave this island though. Simon and Piggy will never be able to see the world ever again, and it makes me feel very upset. I’m guilty of killing Simon, but I had nothing to do with Piggy’s death. I hope that Jack ends up getting killed or left behind. Goodbye for now, Jared
 * __Chapter 11 Diary Entry__**

**__Chapter 12 Epilogue__** Dear Diary, Well, this is set to be my final entry. I was the very last littlun to wake up out of all of them. While waking up through it, I had saw this random burst of smoke breaking out and after that, I saw what was going on: there was “a knee disturb the mold. Now the other. Two hands. A spear. A face” (Golding 199). I heard Ralph scream and out of nowhere, there was another creature that appears out of nowhere, and I began to freak out but did not scream. All of a sudden, I happened to realize that these guys are officers that are coming to rescue us, just like how Ralph said that we would. I know I should trust Ralph with everything, but I did not believe him when it comes to us getting out of here. I thought we would be stuck here forever, but I was now wrong. I heard Ralph mention that there were no adults here, and I figured that was true but at the same time it wasn’t because the way he was acting, he seemed to be one himself. I was still crying while all of this was going on, as I realized that we were being rescued and not going to be dying on this island without being rescued. While my crying was still going on, everyone else was crying, and the officer decided to “turn away to give them time to pull themselves together; and waited, allowing his eyes to rest on the trim cruiser in the distance” (Golding 202). At first, I had thought it was a bad idea to do so because I thought he didn't like what were doing after he said that since we're British boys, we "would have been able to put up a better show than that" (Golding 202). I originally had some beef with him because it was sort of disrespecting us because since we were little kids, we all should man up and handle the consequences, but instead, all we did was just break down and cry until we were taken away from this place. My breakdown tears of innocence have now turned into tears of joy because I feel relieved. Like a new boy entering a new toy store for the first time and enjoying every little moment that I can. Following the rescue, I have realized that I am now a brand new person ever since I got off that island. I left and have been great to continue my life with my parents as if I never changed at all. I hang out with all of the other littluns, mainly Sam n Eric because I’ve gotten to know both of them so well. I see Ralph every now and then, and he seems like he wants to try to lead a group at his school that he is at. I would say hi to him and he would remember me and give me a high five every now and then. I saw Jack get arrested and had blood on his hands, so I’m a little worried as to what happened with him, but I know he took his insanity to another level. Being on that island, I am going to miss everything that happened because I got a chance to bond with everyone more than how I am trying to bond with people now, except Sam n Eric. An idea of civilization is needed, but I have seen that I can be a good samaritan to this plan, and I know that one day I will become a leader when I become much older. Right now, I am currently 16 years old and enjoying my life and the way that I am right now. It has now been 10 years since I was stuck on that island which could've been my death place. I am proud to be off that island and am able to continue living my original life without having the idea to be living on that island forever and possibly dying on the island. It feels great to be back at home where I can actually sleep in a very comfortable bed and keep loving my life like I always did before being stranded on the island. Signing out for good, Jared [Journals Submitted 4/8/13--missing Chp. 11 response]