Lord of The Flies

Chapter 7: Shadows and Tall Trees
The Dance of The Dead Pig
Perspective: Piggy

1. After they spear the pig they pretend Robert is a pig. They dance around him in a ring and pretend to beat and kill him. They do this aggressively as if playing a game of rugger. Ralph is the one who spears the pig. Afterward the boys are excited and start thinking of more ways to do the dance.

2. Jack suggests using a littlun in their hunter dance. It foreshadows the separation of the biguns and littluns turning into violence.

3. The boys see a lump that looks like a rock in a place a rock shouldn't be. With bravado they approach the rock and it moves and makes a noise. They get scared and run away. They are so gullible and not sagely because they have imaginations, it's dark, and have it in their minds that they are going to find the beast.

Piggy Question

1. I think the game the boys play after they spear the pig is dangerous. Robert got hurt during it and people take it too far. If I were them I'd feel dun after doing something like that but they get a real thrill out of it. They seem impervious to the person unlucky enough to get caught in the circle's feelings.

Mr. Curran I got home late from practice and had to catch up to chapter 8 through the audio.

Lord of The Flies

Chapter 6: Beast From Air
The Hunt and The Fort
Perspective: Ralph

1. The sign from the grown up world is a pilot who got shot down, bailed out, and landed on the island.

2. The boys don't know about the pilot because he was shot down at night and because they have no idea about how things have escalated in the war because they've been so concentrated on survival.

3. Sam and Eric are so terrified because they're so young and believe the pilot is the beastie.

4. Sam and Eric describe the beast as having long claws, sharp teeth, wings, being very fast, and being a leviathan.

5. Jack is very impulsive and waxy about finding and killing the beast and Ralph is more cautious and considerate about other things. Ralph is concerned about keeping the signal fire going, protecting the shelters, and keeping the littluns safe.

6. I don't think there is a beast because Jack and his hunters have explored every part of the island even the new guano covered rocky area and haven't found a beast.

Ralph Questions

1. I don't feel I'm the strongest leader anymore. Most of the older boys follow Jack because he follows his impulses and doesn't impose as many rules on them as I have. However the littluns follow me but could easily be persuaded to follow Jack

2. As chief I feel responsible for ensuring everyone's safety, preventing mutiny against me, and getting us rescued from this seemingly interminable event. I also feel I must prevent us from becoming embroiled with each other.

Lord of The Flies

Chapter 5: Beast From The Water
Talk of Beasts
Perspective: Jack

1. Ralph calls an assembly to try and reassert his power as chief.

2. Ralph brought up the matter of never letting the fire go out. He brought up using the rocks by the ocean as a bathroom and created the new rule that the only fire on the island can be the signal fire on top of the mountain. Ralph said that none of us are doing are assigned jobs and that that needs to change. The concern of the beastie was brought up which cast an incantation of fear even amongst the older boys.

3. I'm furious at the thought of being so unfairly blamed for providing us with food at the cost of the fire. Ralph does nothing for us. He sits around and makes rules while the rest of us work to keep us alive. I find it ludicrous Ralph thinks that fire is more important than meat. Without meat we'll all become weak and sickly.

4. We are extremely divided now especially since the fire incident. Ralph believes the fire will get us saved and I think the meat will keep us alive. It's these differences in opinion and fear which are splitting us in two.

5. The littluns lament in their sleep because they're afraid of the beastie.

6. The littlun Percival said the beast rises out of the water which stopped even the older boys' jeering.

7. I think the dirtiest thing about human nature is the want to survive at the cost of others' lives.

Jack Question

1. I hate Ralph because he's chief. I can't believe they elected him instead of me. He has no experience leading. I can't play second to someone as weak as him. I hate how he puts the priority of the fire before hunting and how he creates rules while we slave to help everyone. He is an effigy of fool selfishness.