Jefferson,A

Journals on LOTF Chapter 1- Groupthink On an island or in a real society there is a certain comfort found in a group. This can be found or seen in little human actions no matter what age. Like when Piggy first meets Ralph, and among other things says a name he is used even though he was disrespected. In the novel Lord of the Flies as written by William Golding. “I don't care what [you] call me so long as. . . [it's not] what they used to call me in school. . . They used to call me Piggy!'" (Golding 11). I find that it is good and bad behavior that almost makes us feel at home in groups. In piggy’s sense he allows himself to have the same torture he endured back home happen to him now in a completely new environment. In Highschool groupthink happens in aspects that most people do not even realize without the help of media and anti bullying classes semi-literally rubs these issues of human behavior. Like the quote "The creature was a party of boys, marching. . . " (Golding 19). This reaction is similarly seen in a fight when there becomes a shield of people chanting or watching as the fight goes on.

Chapter 2- Beelzebub "'We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.'" (Golding 42). The civilization is established and it holds for about half of a day before fissures in beliefs about what is and what is not important about the order of civilization begin to surface. Mainly in the aspect that Jack becomes irritated at piggy and shows signs of anarchy or Beelzebub in that he is the first one to throw the order of society to the wind. I find the materialization of evil in the basis of money and how the desire to survive will drive people to do unspeakable things to other people such as murder to just letting someone fend for themselves to achieve their own personal goal.

Chapter 3+4- Good and Evil "The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers . . . .Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island." (Golding 52). In this passage about simons private hangout he is broken away from the idoicracy of the island and its other inhabitants showing him is a light the be the reader is seen as desirable. "Then, amid the roar of bees in the afternoon sunlight, Simon found for the fruit they could not reach . . . passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands." (Golding 56). This passage shows him in even more a greater light doing what is a scarce favor seen in the novel. Simon helps the kids who simple can achieve the task of getting the fruit the want and need from a tree. "He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling." (Golding 58). This is a sign of the bad shown in Jack and the other savagenous people on the island than are like the people in the world who just want to watch it burn.

Chapter 5- Nyctophobia "'[F]ear can't hurt you any more than a dream. There aren't any beasts to be afraid of on this island . . . .Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!" (Golding 75). The fear of something completely unverified keeps the boys so timid that it begins to affect the entire society placing fear in the hearts of most of the people who are there thus leading to a type of standstill in productivity within the group of people. I have a fear of not having someone to talk to about how I really feel at any given point of my life. Someone that will b there if I were to ever need help, however I have been there before and I found my way through it I have a somewhat difficult time letting myself be in one of those positions.

Chapter 6- Civilization

Ralph struck the skin off his knuckles. They did not seem to hurt. ‘I’m chief. We’ve got to make certain. Can’t you see the mountain? There’s no signal showing. There may be a ship out there. Are you all off your rockers?’ Mutinously, the boys fell silent or muttering” (Golding 108). This marks the first violent action by Ralph as leader of the civilization. Ralph is finally realizing that because of jack’s antics, the order of how things work in their society is no longer just struggling but instead in the rising action of completely falling to pieces. Our current civilization is always on the cusp of falling apart but held back by the higher powers and the system of not letting one person rule, it is held by the constant arguing between groups, tribes, or parties, be it Islamic, Chinese, American, Russian or wherever, we are all in a constant struggle to reach the climax of our own ideals and thus unite somewhere sadly astray from the perfect ideal.

Diary 7

My name is Simon I am eleven years old, well I could be twelve years old by now, but that doesn’t matter I’m just distracting myself again, it seems to be all I do now. I mean with all the butting heads between Ralph and Jack, all I seem to want to do is to distract myself, in a way even I would rather just help and not be known as a leader, more so just encouraging. “I just think you’ll get back alright” (Golding pg. 111). I had said this to Ralph because I wanted him to relax but at the same time I wanted to leave anyway. At this point I don’t really have very much hope for rescue, so I found an excuse in the argument of today to go back across the island to check on the littluns. While most of the boys on this island are petrified by fear of some beastie I have seen no proof of existence, so I still believe that taking care of the littluns is more important than being afraid of something that cant be found.

Diary 8

I think bad things are only to come, I had a conversation with the head of the pig that is on the stake directly in front of my place. “Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt and kill”(golding 143). It said to me previous to whatever led me to pass out. I am writing this thinking if I cant hunt and kill it and the beast talked to me from a decapitated head, then…what’s at the top. While jack is running around writhing in his savagery and using fear to lead. What’s the base of that fear and is it at the top.

Diary 9

I am tired of them, I mean these people, or kids. Their going to be the reason we all die in our stupidity. I went to the top of the mountain to see this beastie that apparently just is there. Had this beastie been so dangerous why are we all okay. “Harmless and horrible” it was all I saw was a body with a parachute…dead, just like were going to be. Im going to go back now I have to hurry back through the creepers to deliver the news.

Dairy 10

To who ever reads this my name is Wilfred. At this point were stuck in complete savagery. I’ve been tied to a chair all day and then I was beaten and released. I’ve lost hope because we all follow jack, not because we like him, more so because I think he’ll kill us if we don’t. “where was there fire?” Said another one of us to jack and its true, where was it? how do we make it? And why do they keep calling our group murder of Simon a dance.