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.