Porreca,+Miranda

Chapter 1 (Beelzebub)

In the book Lord of Flies Jack represents Beelzebub and what he is known for. He is known for destruction. When Jack and the other boys find the candle buds, the boys begin to look and cherish them; instead Jack slashes them and destroys what others cherished at first. In the past many acts of war and violence took place around the world. Such as World War II. World War II was a time of killing thousands of people just to cleanse out the bad as Hitler believed. He went to all ends to get rid of all Jewish people. He destroyed lives and families and a culture that has been around for centuries. This event shows that evil is all around us and we all say, history repeats itself. Chapter 3&4(Civilization) In chapters 3 and 4 the boys begin to lack civilization because they do not wish to work hard to build shelters and keep order upon them.” they`re hopeless. The older ones aren’t much better. D`you see? All day I’ve been working with Simon. No one else they’re off bathing or eating or playing.” This quotes shows that the boys aren’t interested in helping to keep order on the island. In my eyes our current modern civilization I believe is doing okay. We don’t only help ourselves but we help others around the world. We have programs such as the peace corp, and help stop hunger around the world. We are not perfect but we try very hard to help ourselves and to help others around us.

Chapter 5 ( Nyctophobia) In chapter 5 Jack is holding the cronch and talking to Ralph about the littluns and how they are scared of the “beaties”. “You did the other day, you said they dream and cry out. Now they –not only the littluns, but my hunters sometimes talk of a thing, a dark thing, a beast. Some sort of animal” (Golding 83). Fear spread across from boy to boy. At first it started with the littluns but now its spreading to the hunters and possibly even the older boys. Fear of the unknown is the worst kind of fear. Not knowing what is there. The quotes above shows us the boys don’t do much except talk about the fear they have. The littluns and even the hunters cry out at night and talk about it a lot. They do not deal with their fear but instead try pretending it is not there. “we`ve got to talk about this fear and decide there’s nothing in it. I’m frightened sometimes but that’s nonsense!”(Golding 82).

 One of my biggest fears is clowns, I know stupid but there’s something about them that seems evil. There hiding behind the makeup and not revealing their true selves. Chapter 2 (groupthink) In chapter 2 piggy realizes that the boys may be trapped on the island for a while and need to begin to think what to do to keep themselves safe. Thinking about the possibility of rescue, Ralph proposes that the group build a large signal fire on top of the island’s central mountain, so that any passing ships might see the fire and know that someone is trapped on the island. With these actions they work together, thinking that the fire may rescue them they all think it was a good idea. Until the fire became too big for the boys to handle. Piggy knew that this would happen but no one listened to him.” The first thing we ought to have made was shelters down there by the beach. It wasn’t half cold down there in the night but time Ralph says fire you goes howling and screaming up this here mountain. Like a pack of kids!” (Golding 45). This quotes helps show that even though most of the group decided together to build a fire they did not listen to piggy’s idea to build shelter first before the fire burnt were he had suggested to build shelter. It was a negative outcome because even though they worked together they did not listen to everyone’s idea.

 Group think helps a high school student such as me because I can rely on others with their ideas but sometimes this doesn’t always work because there idea could be the wrong idea. That is why it is always good to listen to everyone around you.

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__Diary Entries __ CHAPTER 7  Hi I’m Noah and I’m 9 years old. It’s cold tonight. Colder than most nights and I have nothing to keep me warm except the tore clothes on my back. My feet hurt, my back hurts, and my tummy hurts. Finally ralph let us take a break from hiking up this tall mountain. Jack and Ralph are looking for the scary beast. I hope we find him so I won’t be scared anymore. This day can’t get any longer. Jack found Pig droppings today and we all found a pig and went after it with our spears. I never seen Ralph get so excited to try and hurt the pig but he went a little crazy today. “I hit him” said Ralph again,” and the spear stuck in a bit”(Golding 113). It’s good to see Ralph have some fun but I hope he doesn’t turn out to be like Jack. Jacks mean… he said next time in the game we should use a littluns. I hope they don’t do that. Its night time now and Jack and Ralph went up to the mountains but I was too scared too. I hope there okay. Hope to talk to you tomorrow. You’re the only thing that keeps my mind sane Noah. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: justify;">CHAPTER 8 <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: justify;"> They told us… told us about the monster. So it is real. I wasn’t scared for nothing. There is actually something to be scared about. What do we do now? I’m scared. I want mommy and daddy. Jack blew the conch today and there was a big fight between Ralph and Jack. I don’t know why they don’t get along but Jack left he told us to come with him but no one followed him. “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 knew that Jack was the king when it came to hunting but he is mean to me. So I stayed with Ralph. But only a few boys went with Jack. And later today some came to our fire and took our wood and even invited us to a feast. Boy was I hungry. Ralph said we were going and I was kinda happy about that. I hope they can get along and we won’t have to split up anymore. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: justify;">Noah. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: justify;">CHAPTER 9&10 <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: justify;"> The food is so yummy. My belly doesn’t hurt as much anymore and I’m warm. The fire keeps my fingers warm. I’m having so much fun and there’s no arguing. But Jack tells us we can join his tribe and boy was I tempted too but I didn’t want to hurt Ralph so I didn’t join him I stay with Ralph. It started raining and it was dark and scary but the boys were dancing and chanting and running around like wild men and it looked like so much fun so I joined in. Even Ralph and Piggy danced with us… we were all having so much fun! But something bad happen in the mist of the craziness. A figure that looked like the beast came out of where there was a bunch of tall trees where and we were all scared. So we all ran up to the beast and killed him and didn’t stop until he was dead. And then he fell over! And died. He’s dead finally. But than a large object came flying at us and we all ran and hid. I didn’t know what we did but I knew it wasn’t good. The next morning I saw Piggy and Ralph sitting on the rocks talking. They didn’t look happy and I knew what we did but I didn’t want to believe it. We killed Simon. But why would we do that? I was scared I didn’t know what to do. But it was wrong. And now I sit here and think about the terrible thing I have done. I don’t know what is wrong with me but I’ve changed. I’m not who I was when I first got on this island. I`m bad now, I use to be a good boy mommy always told me I was too. I don’t think I will ever see my mommy and daddy again. I`m going to die here… along with everyone else. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: justify;">Noah <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: justify;">CHAPTER 11 <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: justify;"> The fire is gone. We all try to light it in this cold but nothing happens. Piggy told Ralph to go and try to talk to Jack and try and get his glasses back to light the fire. “You can call an assembly Ralph, we got to decide what to do”(Golding169). Ralph went to talk to jack but everyone started throwing rocks at him and trying to kill him, and Jack and Ralph did fight but it cause Piggy to die because Roger pushed a big rock on him. I cried and ran back to our camp site. There is no hope for us. No one came back not even Eric and Sam, not even Ralph. I’m all alone. Not even you can keep me sane from this world we live in. its not like home at all. No more rules, nothing. Just killings <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: justify;">Noah. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: justify;">CHAPTER 12 <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: justify;"> I woke up from my deep sleep from the smell of smoke. It was on fire, all of it. The jungle was dying just like me. I was dying because I had no one to keep me safe anymore. No one to comfort me when I was scared. It’s just me and the cold wind that whips through my hair. I went to go see if I can find anyone. I saw Ralph running from the Jack and his hunters but I could do nothing. Ralph was running as fast as he could but then he tripped and fell lying on the sand. But then there he was. There was hope! A man… an adult was standing before Ralph. It felt like I stopped breathing. I ran as fast as I could to the man crying and shouting you came for us, were free from this island. The man took us on his big boat and gave us all blankets and food. Normal food, the food my mommy would give me. He told us we were safe and then asked us if anyone had died. We all looked down and then Ralph told him that it wasn’t our fault and we were only trying to protect ourselves. The man said nothing. Days past and we were home. I was in my mommy and daddy arms again. I was in reality again. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: justify;"> I am now 15 years old. When I look back on those tragic times on the island I realized that I`ve grown a ton since I was 9 and I`ve seen what insanity and can do to the human brain. It takes over. You have no control over it because it owns you. It makes you see and believe things you don’t want to see and know. Sometimes it`s not even there. It’s your imagination getting the better of you. It’s the fear of the un known. Something you can never control. I haven’t heard from the others boys, but I hope they are safe and with their families. Till next time <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; text-align: justify;">Noah.