Response Sheet: Lord Of The Flies
Book Project Response Sheet
Lord of the Flies
January 14, 2009
Chapters 1-3
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Summary:
Throughout the first three chapters of Lord of the Flies, the boys gather together, and start to get organized. Ralph and Piggy are the first boys to meet up and by finding a conch shell they are able to use it as a symbol to gather the rest of the boys together. After electing Ralph as the leader, him, Simon, and Jack set off in an attempt to scope out the island and what it has to offer. Jack and his choirboys are elected as the hunters and designated to keep the watch fire on top of the mountain blazing as a symbol. Jack lets a pig escape so he sets off in an attempt to find more food, while Ralph and Simon work on shelters for the group to sleep in. After weeks of living together and competing with each others every move, Jack and Ralph accept that they mutually dislike each other, and although they try to rectify the hostility …show more content…
Although no one is certain that the beast exists until the twins falsely verify the fallacy, it still overwhelms the boys, and brings up all their feelings of insecurity and hopelessness. It symbolizes a cloud of dread making it hard for the boys to carry on and help make their “society” succeed. All of these add as a precedent for what is to come as the group breaks apart and turns from English boys to savages. This looming beast also deteriorates at the groups want for morality and leadership, leaving the reader feeling a sense of lost loyalty to Ralph as his respect and power given from the group slips away. Because such a tight bond of loyalty had been established beween the reader and Ralph it began to get hard for me to read about Ralph and his misfortunes, and feel sympathetic to the rest of the group whom were being immature and
Lord of the Flies
January 14, 2009
Chapters 1-3
____________________________________________________________
__________________________
Summary:
Throughout the first three chapters of Lord of the Flies, the boys gather together, and start to get organized. Ralph and Piggy are the first boys to meet up and by finding a conch shell they are able to use it as a symbol to gather the rest of the boys together. After electing Ralph as the leader, him, Simon, and Jack set off in an attempt to scope out the island and what it has to offer. Jack and his choirboys are elected as the hunters and designated to keep the watch fire on top of the mountain blazing as a symbol. Jack lets a pig escape so he sets off in an attempt to find more food, while Ralph and Simon work on shelters for the group to sleep in. After weeks of living together and competing with each others every move, Jack and Ralph accept that they mutually dislike each other, and although they try to rectify the hostility …show more content…
Although no one is certain that the beast exists until the twins falsely verify the fallacy, it still overwhelms the boys, and brings up all their feelings of insecurity and hopelessness. It symbolizes a cloud of dread making it hard for the boys to carry on and help make their “society” succeed. All of these add as a precedent for what is to come as the group breaks apart and turns from English boys to savages. This looming beast also deteriorates at the groups want for morality and leadership, leaving the reader feeling a sense of lost loyalty to Ralph as his respect and power given from the group slips away. Because such a tight bond of loyalty had been established beween the reader and Ralph it began to get hard for me to read about Ralph and his misfortunes, and feel sympathetic to the rest of the group whom were being immature and