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.