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This section was interesting because all they talked about how all these people started getting sick. Olmsted got so sick he just took off work for the rest of the time. He seems in a really bad shape. The doctors say he is in a state of depression so anything can happen. I feel bad that the contracters just kept ruining the work that Olmsted did and that hurt him deeply. It bugs me how careless all the workers were. I just wish they were more aware than they are now but I can't do anything about because its just a book. This book makes me want to go in there and set those characters straight because they all pretty much annoy me in one way or the other. I was wondering if they really met Theodore Roosevelt because that part confused me, if they did I think thats cool they meet alot of people. They were talking alot about this exhibition that they thought would attract more people to the fair. Olmsted would seems to be in alot of pain, I think he should take a long vacation because he needs to catch up on life. The way the book said that having his boys around made it seem for him as something darker, I found it extremely depressing because it was a vacation with his family. Then i read later on that Harry Codman got a strange sickness in his abdominal, I was thinking: "WOW! everyone is getting sick one by one". I think that its all that pressure from the fair. Olmsted looked at some of the decorations in the countryside where he was staying, and he referred to it as: "Childish and Vulgar". I was thinking that he is just being a critic everywhere he goes because he got nothing else to do.

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The title says it all: "The Angel From Dwight" of course this is going to involve Holmes and someone falling in love I could tell. One of his assistants, Pitezel, has a drinking problem and he seems to want to use alot of people. He wants to turn another's medicine into his own just to make money, people like him don't deserve to live, he makes other people's lives harder. The people who actually decide to try hard don't get recognize because the ones that cheated somehow always get higher than the ones that work hard. He met this other girl now and I thought that he was going after this one too, and he did. He said he would turn on his charm, he says like if he expects you to know what he is going to do with this one. I think that he is starting to be more and more obvious about what he is doing and more people are suspecting something. I was thinking that at least this one is single, that way he doesn't ruin any other peoples lives. I couldn't believe that Ned came back to talk to Holmes. I wonder if he knows about his wife and daughter. I thought he was going to tell the girl, thats with Holmes now, all the things he did but he didn't. I think that Ned felt the need to tell the girl to watch out for Holmes but of course she didn't listen because she was in love. I say that soon she will learn about Holmes. I thought that it was sad that people pitied the girl for falling for Holmes because I think that they suspected something was going to go wrong. Her second cousin Dr.Cigrand was explaining her like if she was a god, with many details. The only man at this moment in her life doesn't find Holmes or his work as fascinating as she says. The guy in the girl's life never likes Holmes. I think that the girl could handle some tough love by criticizing Holmes its not going to hurt that much unless she is a baby about it.

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The section of "A Gauntlet Dropped" I found out many things. I thought that since it was winter that they would stop working until its spring again,but they didn't they made little advances in thier building. Burhnam met Elias Disney which was Walt Disney's father, I thought that was really cool because these people were all connected. The criticism just keeps on coming and they won't stop until Burhnam is done with this World's Fair, but it bugs how much they criticize them because if they were doing they wouldn't want people tp be pn thier backs twenty-four/ seven. I also didn't understand why they layed off people if they need as much as they can to finish this fair in time for dedication. The author went of rambling about where the term hobo came from which confused me because it was slightly irrelevent. Burhnam felt the fair as a burden, something he wanted to get over with, but I think that he knows this might set his family for life thats why he needs to focus and make this right. There is no time to be proud, he just needs to focus on whats happening with him and the fair because otherwise he is going to get sidetracked. I liked the way Burhnam took the chance and told off all the engineers because he said that they didn't really do much for the construction of the fair. They seem to be almost done with the buildings because they are already thinking of interior design. I could tell that Burhnam misses Margaret because of the way he writes his letters. He got his sons to visit him and he seems to be happy which gives some light tp whats happening. :)

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"Remains of the Day" is a very sick and depressing chapter. I knew that Julia was going to get pregnant but i didnt think that Holmes would so sick as to kill her. I thought he was just going to dump her. He told her that he would only marry her if she got an abortion, he has no heart, and he said he would do it on Christmas Eve. I thought that was pretty sick of him. He gave her too much chloroform on purpose and killed her then went up to Pearl's room and killed her too. On Christmas Eve he did all this I was so depressed. He said that the thought of her dying aroused him which was sick. I can't believe it. He said that the day meant nothing to him because it only brought back bad memories of his childhood. Thats no excuse to kill them on that day. The next day the neighbors waited for Pearl to come through the door with bright eyes, but they never came and they suspected something of Holmes. Yet they had no proof that he did anything and after he made up a story to cover up what happened. He almost got caught by the new people who moved in Julia's apartment because they found clothes laid out on a chair and dishes were still on the table and the new people freaked out and asked what happened, and Holmes lied once more about what happened. He called his friend over to pick the flesh off thier bones so he could sell thier skeletons to hospitals. I thought it was so sick, my stomach is churning just talking about it. I hope the next chapter is less graphic.

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The section called "Vexed" talks so much about their troubles, its sad. I think that Burhnam has no excuse to see his family because he was the architect and he didn't need to build anything, so he had enough time to visit his family. The way Burhnam explains the feelings he has for the fair makes it seem like the dream he has had for years has turned into a nightmare. He also talks alot about out-eiffeling Eiffel, he seems obsessed with beating Mr.Eiffel. I also went on wondering why the Liberal Arts Building is so important to the book since they showed the picture of it in the beginning of Part II. They tried this new foundation where the Liberal Arts Building was going to be at and they found out that it started sinking and they couldn't have that happen because thats the most important building. I thought that it was cool how Burhnam met Thomas Edison, I thought that he was dead because he was probably really old. They also mentioned this company that is still here now. They were saying how General Electric Company took over many electric companies including Thomas Edison's company which I thought was sad because Thomas invented the light bulb and its just wrong to get him out of a job. Burhnam is so obsessed about being the best in the world. I can' t believe he told Hunt that he was an embarrassment that was pretty mean. Olmsted got really sick and I think he is going to die. I was thinking man everyone's getting sick. Burhnam thinks he will finish by the end of the year but I think he asking for too much because they barely made any progress. I also wonder what are pygmies because they said it alot in this section. They also started spreading rumors that Eiffel is going to do the out-eiffeling, and many engineers got really angry about and Burhnam loved how they showed so much passion about the situation. I was like "Finally some support or enthusiasm about what they are doing".

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This next chapter involved alot of betrayal caused by Holmes as always. I felt that something horrible happened to Gertrude, Ned's sister, came to Ned crying and I knew it was because of Holmes, I sensed it. Ned sensed it too but Gertie didn't really want to explain anything so how can they help her if she is being a big baby about what happened and not explaining anything. Then Holmes comes over to talk to Ned and there is this really awkward tension between Gertie and Holmes but apparently Ned wasn't paying attention. That angered me, why wasn't he paying attention. Gertie left Chicago and later in the year she got ill and died and Holmes came over to comfort Ned, but I think that Holmes has something to do with her death but in a indirect way. Ned and his wife Julia were having marital ttroubles and Holmes also has something to do with that. Holmes is haivng affair with Julia and now that she is Julia doesn't see Ned the same so he left her and Pearl with Holmes because that is where they were happy. Later on Ned tried getting custody of Pearl but he failed so he stayed all alone. Holmes is so slick because before he tried to comfort Ned into believing that his marriage can be saved. He has cruel intentions. Then after that he sold the store to Ned and left all the debt to him and now Ned doesn't know how he will pay it off. He ruined someone's life and marriage. Holmes is a psycho because every night when Julia and Pearl fell asleep he went to the basement and have fun with his extremely hot furnace room, which I think he is going to use it to kill Julia and/or Pearl.

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This next section explained the dreams each of the architects had. Its called "Convocation" and this is one where they talk about Olmsted's ideas which iI think are great despite that they have very little time to dream. They only have two years. Hunt has gotten very sick but he still participates in the meetings. All the descriptions talk about people being in bad shape and that is stressful to hear about because it makes me think that the fair isn't going to be a sucess like they all think it'll be. I was wondering why the architects all feel pretty awkward to talk at the moment. The way they described the buildings they seem to be huge but I'm afraid they won't finish in time. I wish I was around to see them build it and complete it. Burhnam seemed to get pretty bossy about how he wants things instead of giving them the right to choose how thye want it. It bugged me that all the architects eemed to have this strange tension between them and its frustrating. The banker completely put them down telling them that their presentation is only a dream and that only half of what they are presenting in the meeteing is going to come true. Everybody is always putting them down there is no support what so ever. Olmsted is thinking of having a little more fun with the design s because he says that a fair is supposed to be fun and not just a whole bunch of buildings. Olmsted is afraid to share his ideas about the fair and I think his contribution to will help the fair so much. Everything seems like its going to be huge and I don't know how they are going to fit all those building and attractions into a one and half mile park. They have very little time which makes the story more rushed. I think that Olmsted is obsessed with getting boats involved with the fair. Thats the only bad thing about his ideas, they all involve getting a boat. All the descriptions of the landscape sound so beautiful. All the union workers attacked once they found out they found they were hiring people. They were thirsty for work. They hired a woman architect and they payed her nine thousand less than the men, which i thought was horrible. She's supposed to design the Woman's Building. There was this guy that Burhnam was going to hire but he was too scary looking that he told him he would think about it but then he had followed him back to Chicago. I thought that that was pretty creepy, but supposedly he was addicted to opium so that affected his appearance. I thought he shouldn't hire him because he might not have good work ethic because of his addiction. I am getting tired of those stupid critics they offer no support to the team of architects all they do is make everything worse why can't they just get a life! They said that the unions got stronger and i wasn't sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing. They police department says that the fair in this particular area would be the cause of all the crime during the time of the fair. I think that Holmes is going to be the only one expecting the fair as an opportunity.

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This has been the most revealing and saddest chapter so far its called: "Alone". I was almost crying in this chapter. They said alot of jokes but i didnt understand any of them. I know somebody said something about Burhnam and it brought back alot of bad memories. The book also said something about Burhnam being more dangerous than Sullivan and I was confused on what type of dangerous he was and I'm paranoid that everyone is going to turn into a killer. They diagnosed Root with Pneumonia, I knew he was going to die because back then when you got pneumonia they didn't have a cure for it. I had pneumonia when i was smaller and they said that if i get it again i might develope asthma. So i can relate except i didnt die of course. I was wondering how Burhnam can work in peace with all those sick people around him something is always getting in the way of his work. I know it sounds harsh but he should replace them so he could get his work going because there isn't time to waste. Root asked Burhnam not to leave alone again but he did but to another room to talk to Root's wife. Right then another relative came in the room and announced that Root was dead. I was so sad. Burhnam was so upset that he made Root this famous and got the best job in the country and now he dies, but I know thats not why he is angry its just that he can't stand that he lost his best friend in the heat of thier career. I was wondering throughout the whole chapter how he was going to do it with out him. He thought of giving up the fair but i think its not a good idea because then he proves others' opinions, about how without Root Chicago is nothing, right. Some other people quit others couldn't do the job anymore and everything started falling apart. The chapter ended with saying that there is a darker force of a young irish immigrant that sinks into madness just a little bit more everyday that will destroy everything that Burhnam dreamed of and I think its going to be Holmes. We'll see if I'm right.....

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In this section called "Vanishing Point" it starts as a story about a random guy and his family, but then they meet Holmes. The man, his wife, and the man's eighteen year old sister are employed by Mr.Holmes. Holmes starts taking advantage that the two women are beautiful. The man's name is Ned and he starts getting angry that his wife and sister are falling for him. I thought it was hilarious how Ned's eight year old daughter is also all over Holmes. None of the customers treated Ned the same and he was getting sick of it. Holmes I think was trying to be sneaky because he told Ned to go into a sound proof vault, of course Ned told him no, but I thought he was trying to lock him in there. Ned started to suspect something because he started thinking about why he needed a sound proof vault. Then the book started talking about how there was alot people disappearing in the city but many police departments didn't do anything unless it was someone of great importance which I thought was so stupid that they only people of great importance were cared about. The real question is did they care about you as much as you cared about them, otherwise it isn't worth it. The police force is corrupted even if you don't know it. The book also talked about how the bodies unclaimed people were given to the hospitals to study them and i read one part that said that the dead bodies' hair was turned into wigs and I was like: "GROSSSS!!!!" The book got good they are so descriptive and thats what i love about it.

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I read this section called Landscape of Regret where all the architects finally meet up in Chicago. They were all happy and enjoying themselves until they got to the site where the World's Fair is going to be built. All the architects were thinking the samething: Why in the world would i want to be part of this? I thought that maybe it would look nicer once they cleaned up the area. I think something is going to happen to Root beacause they said he was always sick or maybe Burhnam is going to get involved with Holmes. I can't wait until the book connects all the characters bacause I have a feeling that all of them are some how connected. I have a feeling that the architects are going to turn their backs on Burhnam and Root. I also think that Root is going to die because the book says that he has been sick alot and tired and he probably developed a disease and doesn't want to tell anyone. Once again Holmes is a creepy and will continue being creepy for the rest of the book . I love this book right now its getting uber interesting. Can't wait to see what happens next. :P

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The book is getting super interesting now. I love this book especially the chapters that involve Holmes because they can convince of one thing but then they switch it up. I think the chapters about the architects and the ones about Holmes are connected and I think they are going to somehow just like have this wicked twist at the end I can feel it. Holmes is such a creepy guy, he made a furnace that fits the diescription of a station for the cremation of bodies and it was like a torture chamber in there. I'm starting to get scared but its an exciting scared beacause this Holmes is an interesting character. I think they describe the people so beautifully its like if they were making a painting of them but its just to tell the police how they looked. I think that Burnham is going to die because he was always talked about, but then again it might be Root because the book hasn't talked much about him so they are expecting you to think its Burnham and after they got you on the edge of your seat they will get you to fall off. I don't know but maybe I'm over analyzing this story but thats what I think is going to happen. Holmes is slick but it'll catch up to him someday.

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This next section I read was great but I think that there is a pattern in this book. I think that they make one chapter boring then they the next chapter they hit you with the most interesting chapter. This section was not so interesting because they give alot of dates and historical events that I don't care about and this chapter ewas confusing. It is called Pilgrimage sounds boring too. Well it wasn't that bad, but it talked about how Burnham had to go to New York to get good architects for the Worlds Fair because not many of the architects here are good enough to do a job of this scale. Everyone found out and they all thought that he was a traitor to his own city by bringing in people from another state to cooperate with them. The chicagoans didn't really like that, but there wasn't any time to let pride get in the way. I would've just let it go but these people were stubborn. Later, they all accepted but they still had a feeling that it wasn't going to work out for their indifferences. Everyone in the country thought that Chicago would've have the time to be able to make something so big because to make a structure of the size they were going to make it, it would take years but they had to finish in a matter of months. There was no support coming from the citizens even though they were all happy that Chicago won the contest for hosting the Worlds Fair. Everyone was saying that Chicago was ugly and that structure they were trying to built was going to disgrace the country. I thought that everyone hated Chicago then, I think that now Chicago is better in industry and pollution wise because in the book it explains how nasty and gray the sky would look from all the smoke. It sounded very ugly. There was also a part that caught my attention, was that many of Burnham and Roots partners are saying that both of them are hogging the fame and they deserve credit too. I think they are just trying to ruin everything with a scandal so the other architects would get the job and Burnham and Root would have to be out of a job.Some people are so vicious when it comes to fame and fortune. I think that when this world learns to control thier jealousy it would just a little bit nicer. All this competition is killing everyone. Someone always has to overpower somebody, or become more famous than somebody....Its sickening. :P

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I read a new section called "Don't be afraid" I predicted that this chapter would have someone die, but I was wrong but there was some attemped murder. The book had me convinced that Holmes was a nice person but then something happened that made me change my mind quick. He asked someone to drop a rock on his brother-in-law and he would pay them extra cash if they did it. I was so shocked I was actually scared. Also when he met that girl Myrta he was obsessed with her and then when they got married and got her pregnant he hardly spent time with her. I thought that was mean to do because who knows if she had her life planned out already, but he was too busy running his neighborhood drugstore. Which he only used to meet girls. Then he found three guys that would do the dirty work, which i thought that was sort of scary how there are people like that. I knew that Myrta was going to get jealous of all the girls coming in to the drugstore just to flirt with Holmes, I mean I would get jealous too. The whole book basically sounds like an interrogation because all the answers to the many questions are so descriptive that it isn't even necessary. They also talked about Englewood so nicely like if it was a beautiful neighborhood, but if you go there now its not the prettiest sight to see. Holmes spent his time coming up with blueprints for a new building that he was planning on building, and he said that the idea of hiring women to work in all those clothe shops aroused him which I thought was creepy. Holmes also met a man named Pitezel and he has many children, the point is that one of his children were born out of wetlock and everybody was so disappointed in the man. My question is why was wetlock so bad? They described Pitezel as Holmes' creature which I thought was really mean because it makes it seem as if he owns him. When the book explained how interested Holmes was in Jack the Ripper I found that scary and declared him an official pyscho for now because I know something will happen that would make me stick with this idea. I just hope he doesn't get any ideas from Jack the Ripper because he is already an extremely creepy guy and I suspected since the beginning. He also sold the drugstore and promised the new owner that he wouldn't have any competition, but as soon as the person agreed he opened up another drugstore and stole the other guy's thunder on purpose!! The book is getting really interesting, I can't wait to read the next chapter! :D

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This book is so interesting! So far I read alot in a few pages. I think that someone is going to die soon. I think its one of the people that work with Burnham and Root because they speak of each character with such beauty it kind of gives it away. It feels as the author is connecting each character one by one. So everytime I read that they add another character I have to watch what they do because I have to be able to infer who's going to die or kill someone. I think everyone is going to turn into somebody dark. The author puts in so much detail its not even necessary. I think he is doing it for a reason, he also gives you a history lesson on the whole Chicago history throughout the happenings in the book. I predict one character is going to betray another thats going to cause an uprise in the city. The city sounds ugly from the way the author explains it. The people in the book really didn't like this city so much, they were always toalking so badly about it. The closer it got to the day of the World Fair the less supportive everyone got. I thought that was pretty mean! The book is starting to get interesting though its sounds as if that doctor, I think his name is Holmes, is going to be a Hannibal Lector type of killer which is crazy but possible with all the violence I'm reading about. Everything and Anything is possible in this book right now! :)

The Start of "The Devil In The White City"

Well I started my second book "Devil In The White City", so far I love the book its giving me a great history lesson. Did you know that the Sears Tower is not the first skyscraper in Chicago it was some other building that was only ten stories high. I'm starting to get into this book but at first I thought that the book was going to be boring because it only talked about the architechture in Chicago. Then its started talking about this underground group of murderers who got the message of the World's Fair being hosted in Chicago are plotting something against the people to make it unforgettable. I think that they are gonna kidnap some important people that attend it because they talked about how sometimes they would jsut kidnap celebrities for fun and torture them. I've realized that Burhnam one of the architects in the story is headed for some real trouble by the way they describe his very unbalanced career lately. He sometimes fails but then comes back with a bang, I think if he doesn't take care of him self something going to happen.

My Thoughts

This book has been tremendously good I think I am going to read it again this summer after I finish Devil In The White City this year. It is a really good book I recommend it to everybody who enjoys reading fine peices of literature. And I also think that you make many connections to different things in life. It also teaches you many lessons, like loyalty and friendship all that good stuff.

This book is very graphic and it makes it interesting to me when its graphic and detailed. It makes me feel like I'm there when I read it. I hope every body who reads it gets the same experience I did.

~~~~ ELIZABETH BAUTISTA~~~~

Lord of the Flies the "Cry of the Hunters"

I was so surprised that the children in the other tribe would go as far as to hurt Ralph. They actually threw a spear at him and no one was seen to be blamed which is horrible. I think they ran and had not let Ralph see who they were because they were afraid that Ralph would back at them most likely. They know what Ralph is capable of so much more than they seen him react to.

I think that Ralph is like a JESUS figure type because they stabbed him the spear in his rib like in the movie Passion Of The Christ. The way his own people turned their backs on him after what he did for him. Thats what happened to Ralph the group of children turned against him after he organized the whole group. Its so much like it I swear. That what I can relate it to.

The shock of Piggy getting killed really hasn't gone away, I mean it was so graphic. The way they threw that boulder and fooled him it almost made me cry for him its so horrible!! Ralph was devasted his only friend now he has to fend on his own. And they destroyed the conch so thats gone he has nothing.

Its like if the country doesn't shape up we are going to end up splitting up and the same thing is going to happen, hell will break loose and there will be more people killing people than ever.

Lord of the Flies (My Thoughts)

My thoughts are running wild everytime I read this book so I always blog when I don't read so I don't ruin the flow of my thoughts. I think that if I code when I'm reading I might put something down that I think you might want to hear, thats why I like to pour everything out while I blog. This book lets me make so many connections to the world around me, it makes me think profoundly of current events that I can connect the book with. Ralph can represent the people, I think, everytime he mentions how he wants to be rescued I think of how people only think of themselves and just let the president do what he likes as long it doesn't affect them directly. And I think that Piggy could represent the conscious of every human being that thinks of doing the right thing but isn't powerful enough or thinks no one will listen so they just let things be, even though they know it is not right. The current chief, Jack, is our country's leader in which he thinks he is doing good but he is just accumilating the mess into something we won't be able to get out of. Like when Jack doesn't take care of the smoke signals because that might be the only way the children might get rescued but what he is doing is turning the whole pack into mad people and if they do get rescued they will not be able to acted civilized human beings and they might as well stay on the island for that.

Lord of the Flies ( close to the end!! )

The section I think that the only sane people on the island are Ralph, Piggy, Sam, and Eric. I say this because they isolated themselves from the rest of the children and I thought Ralph was going to become the blood-thirsty leader but that Jack guy took over his position. I thought that was a bad idea because it just drove the rest of the children into a big hole of madness. I thought Piggy was trying to be a hero because he saw Ralph was no longer interested in the good of the group but in getting rescued. I think that Jack and the rest of the savages are like the gangs in bad neighborhoods, once they take over they are to powerful to knock down or stop. A lot of people don't feel like doing anything about them because its possible that they might get hurt like Piggy would if he went to try to stand up for himself to Jack and his savages. Ralph also doesn't want to lose touch with the world of well educated people, he doesn't want to admit that he might not be rescued with or without the smoke signals. Ralph is becoming once again obsessed with having his fire but the fire is on the savage's side of the island and he worried that ships might pass without being aware that there are people on the island that need to be saved but I doubt that there are any people looking for them otherwise they wouldn't take so long. I think this book is going to end with death because everything is really going down hill for Ralph and his group.

Lord of the Flies (MY THOUGHTS)

This section is particularly interesting, which is called " The Shell and The Glasses", they talk a lot about how Piggy has now one eye and that confused how that happened they didn't say specifically or I just wasn't paying close attention when it happened . Through the whole book a lot of things happen that I understand but then they throw something that I don't know where they got it from thats what makes me so confused. Nevertheless, I'm enjoying the book because there are so many connections I can make to our society today that are probably lead me to find out the secret of this book. I know that this book has a deeper meaning to other than a whole bunch of children going mad and turning into savages. I have a brother who read this book and sometimes when I tell him I don't understand why this happened he tells I should read because its a secret I have find out by myself, so he is not giving me any hints of how the story ends or why this happens. It kills me that I have to deal with people who know what would happen but won't tell me anything. I can sort of relate Ralph alienating himself like Holden from Catcher and the Rye. They both want to go home and be with the family but Holden knows they won't be there to listen but with Ralph its different because they will actually be dead and to Holden his parents are dead too because they don't do anything but work and support him with money, but no love.

Lord of the Flies (178-194)

Simon did die after all, something happen to him while they were dancing and they are not saying it which is killing me. I also think that they are pretty scary to live around. Now they are going to kill this other guy named Wilfred and now I'm starting to see the progression of their madness from the beginning to now and the book is almost over and I am sooooo excited to see how the book ends and I hope it does not end with a cliffhanger because I hate those. Anyway I am anxious to find out the meaning of the book because I am sure that you won't find it out by reading one single time. Its those books you have to take your time with so when I finish I think I am going to reading again. I would probably be able to understand it better after the second time around. I've been wondering how people compare this to society but I think I can relate to it by the people killing people part of the story. They are killing their own because it seems like they are doing because they are useless, too quiet, or not good hunters is what I'm guessing because they can't be crazy enough to be killing just to kill or are they? That is the real question. I think that Piggy is really scared because he seems to talk a lot about going home, I mean I would want to go home too. Now Piggy is talking about having one eye and I don't if he is talking about literally having one eye or he is just saying that because he has only on working glasses from the pair of glasses. This chapter was rather confusing but interesting because I saw how one of the children from the tribe said that they were going to beat Wilfred, he said so normal like if he was used to it. It seems like Ralph and Piggy are isolating themselves because they don't want to be part of anything anymore. He also seems to be overthrown by Jack the evil hunter as I called him.

The Lord of the Flies (pg.165-177)

The title of this chapter was very interesting and it seemed to be talking about a death in the group and the one who dies is....

Maybe it is Piggy or one of the smaller children again. The only reason I thought it was Piggy in first place because he is a weak child and becomes vulnerable to fear. They also make thier first killing and cut the pigs head off and put it on a stick and called it the Lord of the Flies. Now I know why that is the title, now that I think of it the Lord of the Flies is a pig that they killed and took the head from and put it on a stick. I think it seems strange that one of the children, which his name is Simon, is having alot of nose bleeds so that is what made me think that he was going to die. Simon does not dies because they are talking about a pig.
Everyone is turning into savages and it is kinda of scary. I don't how alot of reviews of this book say that this is how society is going to end up like if we don't shape up. I don't understand the resmblence to society, but I still got alot to go in this book and I am understanding this book a bit more than I did before, but there are still moments when this book says things I don't understand but it doesn't hold me back from reading this book.
Ralph seems to be drifting from the group and talking more to Piggy because the killing doesn't seem to interest him and only seems to care about getting home.

Lord of the Flies (pg. 141-165)

The they are still questioning the fact that there is a monster but I think that the darkness is getting to them because they seem to only see it at night time. Ralph sounds like he really doesn't care much about they should do about the beast, he always responds with something about the mountain or just tells them to do what they gotta do which doesn't help much. He really doesn't believe them about the monster and I don't either. I think that Ralph is starting to doubt himself and doesn't want to face the fact that they might be in danger. I think he should just start listening to Piggy because he says he saw the beast himself. They think it is a tiger, I say sure. I say that Piggy is too sensitive even though he is right about somethings, but he has to get into survival mode or he gonna be the first one to get thrown in front of the beast because with being so sensitive he is useless to the group. Jack was such a backstabber because since he had the conch during an assembly, he told everyone that Ralph was a coward and that he always sits back and watches the hunters hunt the beast while doing nothing. I hate Jack he is always trying to take the position of Ralph by turning everyone against him. I think that Ralph is going to try going after the beast just to show the children that he is not a coward. Off tangent, this book often throws in ideas that lets you connect the story to real life situations. I can't believe Jack is trying to make his own tribe just because he is jealous that everyone likes Ralph. It seems that there is other humans turned savages stranded on this island I wonder whats going to happen next.

Lord of the Flies (pg. 106-140)

In this section they talk about the beast but this time it is a beast from the air. Apparently, the twins in the group saw the beast they said that it was really big and it had wings. One of them was bleeding. I didn't think there would be a real monster but there is two. Also I think it is something normal like a vulture or a hawk but nothing abnormal, I think they are exaggerating because they are small children it probably seems big. I have a question about something I read, why is there a castle if they are on a island ? this really threw me off because even though they explain where it is it seems as if the author were making things up as he goes. I know there is a deeper meaning but I am having a really hard time understanding what it is. They tried to get Jack one of the leaders to go find the beast and kill like he kills every other animal that they find for food but I think he is too scared. Ralph kind of turned fearless but I think it is because he knows now that it is all about survival and none of that " someone going to save us" talk, he seems to me like a warrior. Another last thing about the section is that Ralph has gotten pretty touchy about the smoke from the mountain he wouldn't even let the children step away from the mountain assuring there was smoke coming out of it, so he is secretly obsessed with getting saved. I think I would be too.

The way it mentions that he doesn't know how he picked up the habit of biting his nails, since I bite my nails I can sort of relate to it I mean I think I picked it up because I was always so stressed because I was a major procrastinator since birth. That is why I think started to bite my nails but I don't much anymore. When I try to kick the habit I think I'm not biting my nails, but I am doing it unconsciously. I think it is interesting how Ralph realizes that they now put on clothes only for the custom. This shows how much society can brainwash us to do things "they" is right but for us it is just something that is embedded in minds since birth. I think Ralph just needs somebody to talk to because with burden of carrying out a whole new society is pretty darn stressful. I wouldn't stand a day without my parents not knowing if they are alright or alive at least. I wonder if they will become cannibals because being on a isolated island I doubt there will be many surviving, I know it is a horrible thought but that is what I think. Ralph seems to be missing his family and the life he lived and, he goes soft sometimes knowing he has to keep up the image of a great and strong leader. Its so hard to live without some sense of security or knowing that your parents will be able to protect you from the beast in the air or in the water.

Lord of the Flies (pg. 83-105)

The narrator is discussing how Piggy has the ideas but he is not the leader type like Ralph is, so that is why Ralph is the leader. The narrator talks about how Ralph has learned to read others faces so he what the children are thinking when he is speaking. Ralph is disappointed because every time he sends out a mission for the group of children the things he plans don't ever get done. I think that he is starting to lose his edge people are starting to have and carry lives of their own. The children are getting lazy and are having to much fun.

I wonder what the title means it is called " Beast from Water", are they going to find a shark or something made up like the loch ness monster. Otherwise it would be sort of dumb to find out that the monster is fake or it would be the unrevealed mystery monster that hunts each one them one by one because the children seem pretty close to the water and spend all the time in it which is a potential danger. Ralph thinks that building shelters is enough to keep the group safe but he needs to take other precautions. Just like when the political leader of ours decides that he will pass a law that will shut the people up and the people will stop asking for what they really need. I am really starting to understand this book more than I did in the beginning because they started to slow down the story and separate the story into sections more understandable.

The section mostly is about how the group is starting to fall apart and the children are realizing the anarchy in their little assemblies and how Ralph made up this rule about whoever has the conch can talk but he is never giving anybody a chance to hold it and if he does he tells them to shut up. All of started it started to fall apart because the little kids started to talk about the so called beasts hidden in jungle waiting to attack. Also Ralph can't do anything about because he is too busy worried about lighting the fire on the mountain so they can send smoke signals to passing ships. I think he should drop the idea of being rescued to focus on the issues of their current situation of the " Beast " and the missing child. I will soon find out of beast and its where about soon after this section or later in the section about the beast.

Lord of the Flies (pg. 50-82)

They finally listened to Piggy about building shelter. The children started building huts on the beach. I think they realized how important finding shelter from the dangers of the jungle. Now they are missing one kid from the group because of their carelessness, but I think Piggy should be the leader because he has more sense about these sort of things. He gives the ideas but doesn't know how to express them so people will listen to him. He doesn't have commanding voice like Ralph's. I think I can connect this to our society because people listen to the person in command (president) blindly without thinking of the consequences and we end up with a war like now. They group thinks it is not possible that there is any danger in the jungle it is a so called "good Island." There is no such thing as a good or bad islands there is just wilderness and you. The second section I read the children started to have mirages around midday. It was sort of funny because their mirages were so weird because they couldn't possibly be real. The boy who had gone missing hadn't been found but nobody really tried looking for him. The children started to paint their faces to look more savage like. I think that all the freedom they have will go to their heads and one the co-leaders will snap and become a psycho or something. It seems as Ralph will become that person and he will start thinking for himself and risk other
children's lives just to get what he wants out of them.

The Second Chapter of Lord of the Flies

This chapter started out explaining who and how somebody would rescue them. Ralph started planning trips into the forest by separating the older kids so they could go hunting for food. They had meeting discussing a way they could be seen and rescued but Piggy kept telling Ralph that everyone was dead. No one would listen to him. I think this could resemble how the people now a days warn the government about their terrible decisions they make and they don't listen. They are ignoring the consequences of their actions and the people have to suffer for it. I think if Ralph doesn't take Piggy's warnings seriously there will be trouble. Towards the middle of this chapter the children started out into the jungle to look for fire wood and ignore Piggy's request to not go into the jungle because there might be dangers. Ralph thinks that just he is the leader he doesn't have to take part in the search for wood and sits on the mountain in which they were going to set the fire on to get notice from passing ships. I think this sounds like the president because while people our killing themselves in war, he is just watching everything get worse and he is not even trying to do something about he just letting the people in the war do all the work. This book is getting interesting because the way the children act is very mature for their age and they plan every single moment without even thinking about the dangers that lie in the jungle. I think Piggy is the most rational character in the story right now because he is seeing everything as it is without putting any sugar coating on their problems. For example, when everyone was so busy trying to get notice by passing ships by building a fire, Piggy went right up to Ralph and told he that he is not thinking clearly and instead thinking about getting notice they should worried about surviving on the island by building shelter before dark and taking care of the little ones. He is so far the smartest in bunch because Ralph is turning into a savage caring less about the group of children following his lead. One detail I noticed was that through out the whole story they did not introduce one single female character because they are all boys. I was wondering if it was because boys had more chance of surviving or had better leadership skills or something that made them superior to girls. I wonder what author was thinking when he wrote the story without including girls. I think because boys are better for the story because sooner or later they'll turn into savages, all of them. Another point about Ralph is that he is getting mad with power and even though Piggy was with him since the beginning he is leaving him out of the activities and not letting share his ideas. I think it is a bad idea to neglect him because I predict something bad is going to happen to whole group for Ralph's negligence.

The First Chapter in The Lord Of The Flies

The book started out describing one of the characters named Ralph which was found finding his way through a jungle. A few moments later they introduced another character named Piggy he is one of the many children that Ralph finds on what seems to be an Island. He later finds out that if he has a meeting with the rest of the children they can find a way to get rescued because there are no grown-ups around. Ralph is told by Piggy that there has been an atomic bomb and that all the grown ups are dead and that no one will come to rescue them, but Ralph seems to be in denial after Piggy tells him this. He goes out into the jungle to find food with two of the older children in the group find nothing so far. This chapter was confusing at times because there are so many things to be assumed of what would happen next or what happened to the parents. Which I think is yet to be found out.