Rain by Shel Silverstein
I opened my eyes
And looked up at the rain,
And it dripped in my head
And flowed into my brain,
And all that I hear as I lie in my bed
Is the slishity-slosh of the rain in my head.
I step very softly,
I walk very slow,
I can't do a handstand--
I might overflow,
So pardon the wild crazy thing I just said--
I'm just not the same since there's rain in my head.
Shel Silverstein is my favorite author who wrote "The Missing Piece" and "The Giving Tree"
I found he used to write poems just few weeks ago, so I chose his poem for this time (I love rain;this is my second one about rain).
TPCASTT:
T-title: The Title is really simple, so I couldn't really find the meaning of the poem. The meaning of poem would be about washing the sin or bad past
P-paraphrase: Basically rain got into author's head (brain); as a result, he has certain behaviors such as walking slowly, stepping softly, being unable to handstand that makes him feel different from past.
C-connotation:
Symbolism-Rain is symbolizing
Imagery-Rain dropping on author and flowing into brain. Silverstein is definitely genius guy who can give this strong imagery with very few sentences in very simple form. Authomatically, I can imagine myself standing alone in the rain. The visual of rain falling, feeling of my head cooled down by filling water inside, sound of rain sparkling on my head, and I can even feel through all of my senses with great impression. This symbolism is really important to this poem that it drags the reader into the poem to make him/her feel what author is trying to say.
Repetition: There is kind of repetition with "AAAA" and "IIII." In first stanza, there are four sentences start with "And, and second stanza, "I." It certainly gives readers the rhythm and fun to read, but also adds the mood and feeling contained in this poem. Like a process and a list, the repetition gives simplicity and peaceful feeling to the readers.
Mood : I think the best about Silverstein is the mood of the poem. I feel really bad and shameful that I cannot pick the word that can perfectly describe his mood contained in the poem. Peaceful, like a reader in a leisure while reading the poem, kind of fun, positive, hopeful, seems very easy and minor, but has the deepest and most important meaning, makes readers feel having an adventure, makes readers feel going back to youth when they are little children, pure, clean, and just perefect. The mood in this poem seems kind of melancholy, but we can never find author's being negative about this. The mood is quite, slow, and peaceful without much happening. I think the mood in this poem is important because it certainly gives readers what author's attitude is and what author's feeling inside that he wants readers to feel.
A-attitude: Although I am kind of a pessimist, I cannot complain or critize anything about Silverstein's attitude in this poem. Author's attitude toward the fact that rain is flowing into his head is not negative. Author seems to be just accepting what had just happened. Through the attitude in this poem, it narrows down what author wants to say to the readers.
S-shifts: At the second last sentece, where it says , "So pardon the wild crazy thing I just said-- ," it has a big shift espeically in the plot and the tone. With a word, "So," it gives conclusion (what author says to us) as a shift. Up to this point, the poem simply talk about water flowing into the head, its consequences, but suddenly author asserts something that gives strong notification to readers. Also the tone got more rigid and strong in the shift.
T-title: I thought Silverstein could make the title more interesting than just "Rain." But as his writing style with simplicity in deep meaning, I think this title is very adequate to have. The "Rain" definitely indicates the meaning what author trying to say.
T-theme: I think rain is a symbolism of a big shock or big memory. Because the ran got into his head, he has certain odd behaviors. Walking slowly, stepping softly... Above many possibilities that can represent this big shock event, "love" is the symbolism of rain in my opinion. He says all he hears as he lies in his bed is a slishity-slosh of water. This means he's just full of thinking about his lady (?) or love all day long, since he meets her like rain dropping. I think Silverstein is funny and genius to use brain instead of heart to indicate love;therefore, it gives more strong impression of love effect. Besides, he cannot handstand because he can overflow. I think this means he cannot stand himself anymore to deny the truth of love, or he is just at the edge right before exploding his joy or happiness of love. At the shift, like everyone who become weird and behaves differently than before, author has same consequences of love that can make people think, "I think he changed somehow."
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
November Rain by Amy Phillip
November Rain
November rain washed away my guilt
November rain washed away my pain
November rain - so tired I felt
November rain was not just any rain
Long I longed with deep torment
For so long my body waited
November rain, , , , Oh, sweet friend
November rain- slowly I faded.
November rain- I cried within
Steady and slowly, it kept on pouring
November rain, watered my skin
And deep inside, I heard my roaring.
November rain, it refused to quit
November rain kept on pouring
And alone outside, in the streets
I wept-dripping... dripping and falling.
Amy Phillip
TPCASTT
Title: November Rain talks about what kinds of impressions that it gives. The reason author took November instead of other eleven months is perhaps because of her memory of November.
Paraphrase: Since author has been waiting for November rain, she washes out her “bad things” such as guilt, pain, harsh memory, and everything that afflicts her. She puts herself into the rain as one.
Connotation: The rain has a great imagery. The imagery of visual as it rains, pours, drips, and flows. Not only is the visual, the feeling also well described too; the sentences and descriptions of rain falling gives readers feel like they are really in the middle of the November rain. Washing the skin, dripping over our heads and bodies, and pouring give us the strong feeling like real.
There is rhyme scheme (abab, cdcd, efef). Every stanza has rhyme scheme.
It has personification of the rain. Author mentions rain is her sweet friend. Besides, author said November rain is not just a rain; therefore, author has extraordinary feeling toward the rain which has human qualities. Rain is author’s sweet friend and refuses to stop; they are the examples that rain has human qualities as personification.
The rhythm is created as verses start with November rain. The verses starts with November have certain rhythms because November rain is repeated in smooth rhythm. Also there is rhyme scheme which makes the poem more like a song (with a rhythm).
I think November Rain has a great symbol. Since author mentioned that November rain is not just a rain, November rain symbolizes or means something special to her. Maybe November rain is a important rain, but does not symbolize anything at all, but I think November rain is symbolizes author’s willingness, volition, purpose, and strong determination to start a new life or to forget about how harsh her life was before.
Attitude: Author’s attitude toward rain is melancholy but otherwise glad. She feels great about November rain. She thinks November rain is special and important to her because November rain can wash guilt, pain, and etc. Although she feels great about November rain coming to her, we can see author’s being melancholy. The description of rain pouring and washing the author can refer to the readers that author has very hard, sad life (or just moments). Pain, guilt, author’s roaring, crying, and fading tell us about author’s attitude of being melancholy and lonely.
Shifts: The shift of this poem is on the verse “November rain- I cried within” on the third stanza. This verse is the shift of this poem because it strongly shows author’s loneliness and sadness. Up to that verse, author is trying to endure tears coming out. It’s like a boy who tries not to tear after fight, but bursts out of tears when he hugs his mother. The moment author cries and roars in the rain is the shift when the author bursts out of tears in the middle of the rain.
Theme: The theme of the poem is about necessity of moment that human must rely on. There is a moment or like a opportunity that every one can think about the past and try to eradicate it in mind for a better future.
Title: First I thought the title is just about love story (memory) she had in the November when it rains. Actually the rain talks about the author’s washing and reforming through the experience of raining of washing the sins and letting out pain and harsh memory from her head. If I would name the title of this poem, (although I think “November Rain” is the perfect title of this poem), “Rain like a river in November” because rain is pouring and dropping continuously like a river flows that can wash the author
November rain washed away my guilt
November rain washed away my pain
November rain - so tired I felt
November rain was not just any rain
Long I longed with deep torment
For so long my body waited
November rain, , , , Oh, sweet friend
November rain- slowly I faded.
November rain- I cried within
Steady and slowly, it kept on pouring
November rain, watered my skin
And deep inside, I heard my roaring.
November rain, it refused to quit
November rain kept on pouring
And alone outside, in the streets
I wept-dripping... dripping and falling.
Amy Phillip
TPCASTT
Title: November Rain talks about what kinds of impressions that it gives. The reason author took November instead of other eleven months is perhaps because of her memory of November.
Paraphrase: Since author has been waiting for November rain, she washes out her “bad things” such as guilt, pain, harsh memory, and everything that afflicts her. She puts herself into the rain as one.
Connotation: The rain has a great imagery. The imagery of visual as it rains, pours, drips, and flows. Not only is the visual, the feeling also well described too; the sentences and descriptions of rain falling gives readers feel like they are really in the middle of the November rain. Washing the skin, dripping over our heads and bodies, and pouring give us the strong feeling like real.
There is rhyme scheme (abab, cdcd, efef). Every stanza has rhyme scheme.
It has personification of the rain. Author mentions rain is her sweet friend. Besides, author said November rain is not just a rain; therefore, author has extraordinary feeling toward the rain which has human qualities. Rain is author’s sweet friend and refuses to stop; they are the examples that rain has human qualities as personification.
The rhythm is created as verses start with November rain. The verses starts with November have certain rhythms because November rain is repeated in smooth rhythm. Also there is rhyme scheme which makes the poem more like a song (with a rhythm).
I think November Rain has a great symbol. Since author mentioned that November rain is not just a rain, November rain symbolizes or means something special to her. Maybe November rain is a important rain, but does not symbolize anything at all, but I think November rain is symbolizes author’s willingness, volition, purpose, and strong determination to start a new life or to forget about how harsh her life was before.
Attitude: Author’s attitude toward rain is melancholy but otherwise glad. She feels great about November rain. She thinks November rain is special and important to her because November rain can wash guilt, pain, and etc. Although she feels great about November rain coming to her, we can see author’s being melancholy. The description of rain pouring and washing the author can refer to the readers that author has very hard, sad life (or just moments). Pain, guilt, author’s roaring, crying, and fading tell us about author’s attitude of being melancholy and lonely.
Shifts: The shift of this poem is on the verse “November rain- I cried within” on the third stanza. This verse is the shift of this poem because it strongly shows author’s loneliness and sadness. Up to that verse, author is trying to endure tears coming out. It’s like a boy who tries not to tear after fight, but bursts out of tears when he hugs his mother. The moment author cries and roars in the rain is the shift when the author bursts out of tears in the middle of the rain.
Theme: The theme of the poem is about necessity of moment that human must rely on. There is a moment or like a opportunity that every one can think about the past and try to eradicate it in mind for a better future.
Title: First I thought the title is just about love story (memory) she had in the November when it rains. Actually the rain talks about the author’s washing and reforming through the experience of raining of washing the sins and letting out pain and harsh memory from her head. If I would name the title of this poem, (although I think “November Rain” is the perfect title of this poem), “Rain like a river in November” because rain is pouring and dropping continuously like a river flows that can wash the author
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Without Warning by Sappho
Without warning
as a whirlwind
swoops on an oak
Love shakes my heart
analysis:
Sappho, the author used the metaphor of wind and oak to represent his love and himself.
The wirlwind is very tall and strong column of air that spins fast. The imagery of wirlwind is very strong, firm, effective, and imminent. so does love. Like a wirlwind, love strikes the author without any warning. Swoop has the same imgery. Rather than touching softly, swoop means aggresive and strong strike that overwhelms or wraps the author. Author is an oak which is shaken by imminent whirland which is love. He, his heart is shaken by love called whirlwind.
I put comment on Hyunjun's
as a whirlwind
swoops on an oak
Love shakes my heart
analysis:
Sappho, the author used the metaphor of wind and oak to represent his love and himself.
The wirlwind is very tall and strong column of air that spins fast. The imagery of wirlwind is very strong, firm, effective, and imminent. so does love. Like a wirlwind, love strikes the author without any warning. Swoop has the same imgery. Rather than touching softly, swoop means aggresive and strong strike that overwhelms or wraps the author. Author is an oak which is shaken by imminent whirland which is love. He, his heart is shaken by love called whirlwind.
I put comment on Hyunjun's
Sunday, June 3, 2007
Q 8. Fehrenheit 451
8＊Entry of your choice
Why do we live? How can we live without purpose or dream? How can we live without freedom? Why do we develop technologies for better lives, but make it worse? These questions were overwhelming my brain. These questions seem to be very weird, but these are the truth that I saw in the book and the world; even I am living in this situation too, because I just live in the same pattern any way. The book Fahrenheit 451 was very impressive and affective to me. The book contained so many important meanings that I should remember until I die: The fact of our world and our lives under it. Also this book convinced me to read with strong ideas.
Why do we live? How can we live without purpose or dream? How can we live without freedom? Why do we develop technologies for better lives, but make it worse? These questions were overwhelming my brain. These questions seem to be very weird, but these are the truth that I saw in the book and the world; even I am living in this situation too, because I just live in the same pattern any way. The book Fahrenheit 451 was very impressive and affective to me. The book contained so many important meanings that I should remember until I die: The fact of our world and our lives under it. Also this book convinced me to read with strong ideas.
Q 7. Fehrenheit 451
7＊Are there are any current situations in the world that relate to the novel? What are they, and how do they relate? Does the novel shed any light on how current situations could be resolved or "fixed"?
I am definitely hoping that there aren’t any current similar situations in the world, but unfortunately, there are few. In the novel, the government restricts the people from freedom. Also in North Korea, the government is very similar. In fact, it is pretty much the same in my point of view. North Korean government brainwashes the young people that Kim-Jung IL is a great comrade, that they should ever respect them. In the outside world, I guess that just makes us laugh or feel pity for them, because the government is too corrupted by Kim-Jung IL. To solve this problem, it’s the matter of people’s strong will for freedom. The lives under the government and society that oppresses them will be not resolved or fixed unless they TRY it together with courage.
I am definitely hoping that there aren’t any current similar situations in the world, but unfortunately, there are few. In the novel, the government restricts the people from freedom. Also in North Korea, the government is very similar. In fact, it is pretty much the same in my point of view. North Korean government brainwashes the young people that Kim-Jung IL is a great comrade, that they should ever respect them. In the outside world, I guess that just makes us laugh or feel pity for them, because the government is too corrupted by Kim-Jung IL. To solve this problem, it’s the matter of people’s strong will for freedom. The lives under the government and society that oppresses them will be not resolved or fixed unless they TRY it together with courage.
Q 6. Fehrenheit 451
6＊Are there any settings in this novel which you have found to be beautiful? or disturbing? or memorable? Describe these settings and comment on why they were meaningful to you.
I think the whole story was disturbing and dark. From the beginning, it was weird to have people burning books. I was thinking how they would learn from the past to what they have done? Well, I guess the government from Fahrenheit 451 does not care. They destroy every single book, and kill every single person who does not follow the way they want. I have no other opinion but that is just a horrible government that could exist.
Especially the part that Montag had to steal the book to read was very disturbing and made me ashamed of myself. I am also frequently forced to read it, but I never appreciate to read the books by myself to joy. Different from me, in Fahrenheit 451, Montag is willing to read any books. His intension read to book was the matter to live or die against the government; He risks his peace, and even his life.
I think the whole story was disturbing and dark. From the beginning, it was weird to have people burning books. I was thinking how they would learn from the past to what they have done? Well, I guess the government from Fahrenheit 451 does not care. They destroy every single book, and kill every single person who does not follow the way they want. I have no other opinion but that is just a horrible government that could exist.
Especially the part that Montag had to steal the book to read was very disturbing and made me ashamed of myself. I am also frequently forced to read it, but I never appreciate to read the books by myself to joy. Different from me, in Fahrenheit 451, Montag is willing to read any books. His intension read to book was the matter to live or die against the government; He risks his peace, and even his life.
Q 5. Fehrenheit 451
5＊What is the climax of this novel? What happens? How do the events of this novel make you feel?
The climax of the story happens when Guy Montag kills Captin Beaty at his own house. Beaty tells Montag that his wife, Mildren, has set the alarm, and Montag becomes upset. This reversal of the story was shocking to me. I knew that Mildren was less courageous than Montag about the book that he was keeping, but I never knew that Mildren would actually set the alarm up on his husband.
The more interesting fact is that Montag kills Beaty, but that Beaty was willing to die. Beaty tells Montag to go ahead and pull the trigger. Maybe Beaty had enough of the miserable life, burning all those books after all.
I thought it was double shocking point of the novel, because of Mildren, and Beaty. And I wonder if I were in their situation. Would I do like they have done too? I know there are enough details to get to know those characters, but then again, maybe it is hard to predict by the surfaces of the characters, as in my life, I cannot predict people by their surface. Maybe it was shocking because I was predicting Mildren, and Beaty by the surface. Therefore, I should have read the novel carefully, or should have not look at the surfaces of the characters.
The climax of the story happens when Guy Montag kills Captin Beaty at his own house. Beaty tells Montag that his wife, Mildren, has set the alarm, and Montag becomes upset. This reversal of the story was shocking to me. I knew that Mildren was less courageous than Montag about the book that he was keeping, but I never knew that Mildren would actually set the alarm up on his husband.
The more interesting fact is that Montag kills Beaty, but that Beaty was willing to die. Beaty tells Montag to go ahead and pull the trigger. Maybe Beaty had enough of the miserable life, burning all those books after all.
I thought it was double shocking point of the novel, because of Mildren, and Beaty. And I wonder if I were in their situation. Would I do like they have done too? I know there are enough details to get to know those characters, but then again, maybe it is hard to predict by the surfaces of the characters, as in my life, I cannot predict people by their surface. Maybe it was shocking because I was predicting Mildren, and Beaty by the surface. Therefore, I should have read the novel carefully, or should have not look at the surfaces of the characters.
Q 4. Fehrenheit 451
4＊Please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. Why is this passage meaningful? Please type it into one of your entries and comment on what you think about the passage.
“Strange. I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames.” (pg .8)
This passage is really meaningful and important that tells us the mood and settings about the story. Through this passage, we could feel very serious and dark mood with irony that interest us. By this sentence, readers could understand that they are in the future that they understand fireman in opposite ways. Readers could realize many things and get really interested in the story through this passage.
“Strange. I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames.” (pg .8)
This passage is really meaningful and important that tells us the mood and settings about the story. Through this passage, we could feel very serious and dark mood with irony that interest us. By this sentence, readers could understand that they are in the future that they understand fireman in opposite ways. Readers could realize many things and get really interested in the story through this passage.
Q 3. Fehrenheit 451
3＊What is the major theme of this novel? Why is this theme important to a teenager living in 2007?
The major theme of this story is about freedom and thoughts that are needed in our world. As people keep developing the technology and science, people lose important things they had. People’s most basic, but most important things that they keep in their mind and head such as feelings and thoughts are disappearing slowly; people become a robot without emotions and purposes to live because of the same circulation in the society they are involved in! In these facts that I realized, I decided author’s theme will be don’t lose your own values that you have even though world changes.
I think this theme is really important to teenager living in 2007. In the future, when technology is developed more, we will live in worse society only full of work toward money. I will remember this book, because kindly this book already told me how we are and how we will be in the future. Not only works and money, but also our values in mind should be kept.
The major theme of this story is about freedom and thoughts that are needed in our world. As people keep developing the technology and science, people lose important things they had. People’s most basic, but most important things that they keep in their mind and head such as feelings and thoughts are disappearing slowly; people become a robot without emotions and purposes to live because of the same circulation in the society they are involved in! In these facts that I realized, I decided author’s theme will be don’t lose your own values that you have even though world changes.
I think this theme is really important to teenager living in 2007. In the future, when technology is developed more, we will live in worse society only full of work toward money. I will remember this book, because kindly this book already told me how we are and how we will be in the future. Not only works and money, but also our values in mind should be kept.
Q 2. Fehrenheit 451
2＊What is the mood of this novel? Do you find this novel saddens you in any way? Why?
The mood of this story is very dark and gloomy. Without many conversations, same life with same things makes the mood very dark. Instead of free lives, people just drive very fast, watch television for a whole day, and listen to the radio on “Seashell Radio” sets attached to their ear. This image of people without happy face created mood of seriousness and sadness. The mood in the story is enough depressed to make me sad. As I read the book, I feel like I am not different from those people. I have the same life with same days in pattern, and that life is depressing me without purpose. In addition to this, everyone in the world seems to be living without purpose and happiness like in the setting of the novel. Author wrote a novel in the setting of future, but actually I feel like author just criticized us about our living in this society so I felt really sad and gloomy with mood of the story.
The mood of this story is very dark and gloomy. Without many conversations, same life with same things makes the mood very dark. Instead of free lives, people just drive very fast, watch television for a whole day, and listen to the radio on “Seashell Radio” sets attached to their ear. This image of people without happy face created mood of seriousness and sadness. The mood in the story is enough depressed to make me sad. As I read the book, I feel like I am not different from those people. I have the same life with same days in pattern, and that life is depressing me without purpose. In addition to this, everyone in the world seems to be living without purpose and happiness like in the setting of the novel. Author wrote a novel in the setting of future, but actually I feel like author just criticized us about our living in this society so I felt really sad and gloomy with mood of the story.
Q 1. Fehrenheit 451
1＊Who are the main characters in the novel? Do you like them? Why or why not? What is special about them? What do they reveal about the universal human experience?
The main characters in the novel are Guy Montag, Captain Beatty, and Clarisse McClellan. I really liked Guy Montag who is a fireman who burns books as a job. I could feel I am in similar situation. He reveals important thing about great emptiness inside of human that indicates people need purpose. Another main character Captain Beatty was not my favorite, but he was still interesting person to me. He seems to be very special person as he shows his personality through out his job. His stubbornness shows us people’s concept in the world; Captain Beatty showed us how people adapt and be inured to the world. Also I like Clarisse McClellan. Her personality and actions are totally different from others and she has different thoughts. In the world of prejudice, she makes the difference in other people’s lives and thoughts, and she makes herself special. In common, they are really special in the story, because they are in totally different world but experience the same things we do in reality. They are in the future of fiction, but have commons with readers. How they feel, how they act, and how they talk are similar to us; many of us live without purpose, we just watch TV for a whole day, we do not talk very much, and we live in SAME PATTERN.
The main characters in the novel are Guy Montag, Captain Beatty, and Clarisse McClellan. I really liked Guy Montag who is a fireman who burns books as a job. I could feel I am in similar situation. He reveals important thing about great emptiness inside of human that indicates people need purpose. Another main character Captain Beatty was not my favorite, but he was still interesting person to me. He seems to be very special person as he shows his personality through out his job. His stubbornness shows us people’s concept in the world; Captain Beatty showed us how people adapt and be inured to the world. Also I like Clarisse McClellan. Her personality and actions are totally different from others and she has different thoughts. In the world of prejudice, she makes the difference in other people’s lives and thoughts, and she makes herself special. In common, they are really special in the story, because they are in totally different world but experience the same things we do in reality. They are in the future of fiction, but have commons with readers. How they feel, how they act, and how they talk are similar to us; many of us live without purpose, we just watch TV for a whole day, we do not talk very much, and we live in SAME PATTERN.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
entry 8
*Entry of My Choice
The world is going crazy, far away from the innocent, but closer to evilness. This is what I felt while I read the story. The characters’ reactants and thoughts are very interesting to me because it was realistic and true to me. As the story went on, the conflict was built up and there was a change of character’s personalities. Kids were getting more cruel and brutal. Two kids got killed and other kids tried to kill another kid too. To make reflection, the kids in the island are same the whole people in the society of the world. People got more evil only for their desire of power and authority and they led themselves and lead themselves and will lead themselves into the hell. By reading the story, I felt a lot of things about the society and the community. I will always think about this novel and the message I got. Because I will be also involved in that society in one day, I will remember these things. To be not like the kids in the novel, I will think about the innocence of me to keep.
The world is going crazy, far away from the innocent, but closer to evilness. This is what I felt while I read the story. The characters’ reactants and thoughts are very interesting to me because it was realistic and true to me. As the story went on, the conflict was built up and there was a change of character’s personalities. Kids were getting more cruel and brutal. Two kids got killed and other kids tried to kill another kid too. To make reflection, the kids in the island are same the whole people in the society of the world. People got more evil only for their desire of power and authority and they led themselves and lead themselves and will lead themselves into the hell. By reading the story, I felt a lot of things about the society and the community. I will always think about this novel and the message I got. Because I will be also involved in that society in one day, I will remember these things. To be not like the kids in the novel, I will think about the innocence of me to keep.
Monday, January 22, 2007
entry 7
* are there any settings in this novel which you have found to be beautiful? or disturbing? or memorable? describe these settings and comment on why they were meaningful to you.
To be honest, there were many places and setting to be beautiful, but the story made these places felt disgusting. In the story, a boy called Simon accidentally found the beautiful place in the island and he enjoyed it privately. The flowers and tress were spread out on the soil that seemed really beautiful. But there was a sow’s head in there with the flies on and that made a great meaning. Simon got faint in the area with sow’s head and he tried to go to his friends what he saw in there, but Simon got killed because his friends saw him as a beast. The setting was really ironic and important for symbolizing. By the sow’s head with the flies, it said “Lord of the flies…” and by that the beautiful place turned into the scary and horrible place to me. Just by the sentence of that existence of sow’s head, the setting seemed to change the whole things. This setting was very impressive to me because it was the beginning of kids getting killed by other guys. The sow’s head with the flies symbolized the situation which the kids were involved in this island. The place where the sow’s head was, was really meaningful and impressive to me.
To be honest, there were many places and setting to be beautiful, but the story made these places felt disgusting. In the story, a boy called Simon accidentally found the beautiful place in the island and he enjoyed it privately. The flowers and tress were spread out on the soil that seemed really beautiful. But there was a sow’s head in there with the flies on and that made a great meaning. Simon got faint in the area with sow’s head and he tried to go to his friends what he saw in there, but Simon got killed because his friends saw him as a beast. The setting was really ironic and important for symbolizing. By the sow’s head with the flies, it said “Lord of the flies…” and by that the beautiful place turned into the scary and horrible place to me. Just by the sentence of that existence of sow’s head, the setting seemed to change the whole things. This setting was very impressive to me because it was the beginning of kids getting killed by other guys. The sow’s head with the flies symbolized the situation which the kids were involved in this island. The place where the sow’s head was, was really meaningful and impressive to me.
entry 6
* please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. why is this passage meaningful? Please type it into one of your entries and comment on what you think about the passage
“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy.” (Chapter 12, near the close of the novel)
This quote shows the important things about the theme of the novel. This quote is at the almost end of the novel after Ralph gets saved from the naval officer. From this moment, Ralph says “end of innocence” and that tells us the whole things about this story and what happened. The killing, fighting, and opposing the people in the island were the main things that cause boys being cruel and mad. Because they had to survive and to have benefits, little young kids had to do the disgusting things that should not be done. The young kids realized the dirtiness nastiness of society of world and they were already involved in it. This passage was really meaningful because it showed the despair and regret of the character by doing crazy things to survive. By living and surviving in the island, Ralph learned about the evilness of people’s mind and characteristics and started to despair when he got rescued. He got rescued from the death, but he felt into despair because of the things he learned in this island. And this quote well shows the meaning of it, end of innocence.
“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy.” (Chapter 12, near the close of the novel)
This quote shows the important things about the theme of the novel. This quote is at the almost end of the novel after Ralph gets saved from the naval officer. From this moment, Ralph says “end of innocence” and that tells us the whole things about this story and what happened. The killing, fighting, and opposing the people in the island were the main things that cause boys being cruel and mad. Because they had to survive and to have benefits, little young kids had to do the disgusting things that should not be done. The young kids realized the dirtiness nastiness of society of world and they were already involved in it. This passage was really meaningful because it showed the despair and regret of the character by doing crazy things to survive. By living and surviving in the island, Ralph learned about the evilness of people’s mind and characteristics and started to despair when he got rescued. He got rescued from the death, but he felt into despair because of the things he learned in this island. And this quote well shows the meaning of it, end of innocence.
entry 5
* what is the mood of this novel? do you find this novel saddens you in any way? why?
The mood of this story was really spooky to me. It seemed to be really silly story and ironic because it was the story about little kids isolated in the island, but that made me more horrified. Because they were the kids, their behaviors seemed to be more realistic and scary to me. It was impossible for me to imagine what these kids were going to do. The killing and fighting were very disgusting and it made the mood recognizably serious.
In the story, I could find saddens for people who do not adapt in the society very well. There was a character called Piggy, and he was ignored by people and killed at the last part. Piggy was the most kind and most intelligent, but he was bullied by the only reason that he was fat and not good athletic. This piggy character saddened me very much because it was the reality in the world and there are so many people like piggy there who are ignored. Not even that, the reality of this story for fighting each other for their benefits and power made me really sick. The desire of power is everywhere in the world; stronger one eats the weaker one. Even the kids in this story fights cruelly and this reflects the world in the same way. As I read this book, I concerned why people have to do this kind of thing for their benefits which call only the bloody sufferings.
The mood of this story was really spooky to me. It seemed to be really silly story and ironic because it was the story about little kids isolated in the island, but that made me more horrified. Because they were the kids, their behaviors seemed to be more realistic and scary to me. It was impossible for me to imagine what these kids were going to do. The killing and fighting were very disgusting and it made the mood recognizably serious.
In the story, I could find saddens for people who do not adapt in the society very well. There was a character called Piggy, and he was ignored by people and killed at the last part. Piggy was the most kind and most intelligent, but he was bullied by the only reason that he was fat and not good athletic. This piggy character saddened me very much because it was the reality in the world and there are so many people like piggy there who are ignored. Not even that, the reality of this story for fighting each other for their benefits and power made me really sick. The desire of power is everywhere in the world; stronger one eats the weaker one. Even the kids in this story fights cruelly and this reflects the world in the same way. As I read this book, I concerned why people have to do this kind of thing for their benefits which call only the bloody sufferings.
entry 4
* what is the climax of this novel? what happens? how do the events of this novel make you feel?
The climax happened when the tension of Ralph and Jack ends up to the highest point. Because there was a big conflict of being against each other for leadership, tension was built up. From the beginning, Ralph was voted to be the leader of the group to rule over in the island. Jack as really jealous about it and tried to get more attention of kids to put himself as a leader. In the whole story, you can see what Jack was trying to do in the every part of it. Jack always opposed Ralph and tried to gather people by hunting the animals. Jack’s effort was getting more and more and the conflict got higher. So almost at the end part, Ralph’s follower, Piggy got killed and Jack and his followers tried to kill Ralph too. Ralph had no one to be with and Jack was in the charge of the island. When I read up the climax part, I felt really ironic and weird because it seemed so incredible to see kids’ actions of fighting. The little kids tried to kill each other for their desire of power and force to rule. Actually, it was so realistic in the story that made readers feel horrified and astonished. Author showed the characteristic of human being dreadfully well so that readers usually indicated it the truth in our world.
The climax happened when the tension of Ralph and Jack ends up to the highest point. Because there was a big conflict of being against each other for leadership, tension was built up. From the beginning, Ralph was voted to be the leader of the group to rule over in the island. Jack as really jealous about it and tried to get more attention of kids to put himself as a leader. In the whole story, you can see what Jack was trying to do in the every part of it. Jack always opposed Ralph and tried to gather people by hunting the animals. Jack’s effort was getting more and more and the conflict got higher. So almost at the end part, Ralph’s follower, Piggy got killed and Jack and his followers tried to kill Ralph too. Ralph had no one to be with and Jack was in the charge of the island. When I read up the climax part, I felt really ironic and weird because it seemed so incredible to see kids’ actions of fighting. The little kids tried to kill each other for their desire of power and force to rule. Actually, it was so realistic in the story that made readers feel horrified and astonished. Author showed the characteristic of human being dreadfully well so that readers usually indicated it the truth in our world.
entry 3
* who are the main characters in the novel? do you like them? why or why not? what is special about them? what do they reveal about the universal human experience?
Ralph and Jack are the main characters of this novel because they’re the main forces to against each other. Even in the beginning, they made a vote to choose the leader and there was conflict created there between Ralph and Jack. In my opinion, I really don’t like the characters in this story because their characteristics are so ignorant and cruel; that they do not act like the kids. The kids’ behaviors are so cruel and dictatorship that make readers feel disgusting and ironic. But they’re kind of really interesting to me to see their reactants in the island to survive and that makes me feel they’re special boys. The strange conflict leadership and compositions of rules to follow seem to make sense that can be available in this island. Their ideas seem to follow the things that adults people do in their communities and the conflicts and problems are created in the same way, fighting and opposing.
By these characters, I can know the human characteristics that live together in society. It’s only the few kids, but it refers the whole world. The kids’ actions are almost same as the other people in the real worlds so that it reveals very well about human’s origin thoughts to survive. By this book, I could realize the universal human mind, because the reactants of kids are well shown: horror, leadership, conflict, fight, and betrayal.
Ralph and Jack are the main characters of this novel because they’re the main forces to against each other. Even in the beginning, they made a vote to choose the leader and there was conflict created there between Ralph and Jack. In my opinion, I really don’t like the characters in this story because their characteristics are so ignorant and cruel; that they do not act like the kids. The kids’ behaviors are so cruel and dictatorship that make readers feel disgusting and ironic. But they’re kind of really interesting to me to see their reactants in the island to survive and that makes me feel they’re special boys. The strange conflict leadership and compositions of rules to follow seem to make sense that can be available in this island. Their ideas seem to follow the things that adults people do in their communities and the conflicts and problems are created in the same way, fighting and opposing.
By these characters, I can know the human characteristics that live together in society. It’s only the few kids, but it refers the whole world. The kids’ actions are almost same as the other people in the real worlds so that it reveals very well about human’s origin thoughts to survive. By this book, I could realize the universal human mind, because the reactants of kids are well shown: horror, leadership, conflict, fight, and betrayal.
entry 2
* are there are any current situations in the world that relate to the novel? what are they, and how do they relate? does the novel shed any light on how current situations could be resolved or "fixed"?
There are so many current situations that determine the relations between the novel and the world. This novel, “Lord of The Flies” actually refers the reality of people in the world. The conflict of people for their survivals and power are identical in this story as a one theme. As the boys in this story fight each other, the people in this world do the same thing. For their desire, they put themselves in the difficulties. In this island, there are only young kids, but actually they’re shadowing the same things that are so recognizable to us to feel the similarities. The author, Modling related the story and the world so effectively to show the similarities so that readers can feel a lot of things about their behaviors and society.
In the story, the conclusion to resolve or fix this problem is to make sacrifice of suffering or separating themselves from the society. In the world, there are still many sacrifices to suffer in the society during the progress of fighting, and also there are so many difficulties to get out of the community.
There are so many current situations that determine the relations between the novel and the world. This novel, “Lord of The Flies” actually refers the reality of people in the world. The conflict of people for their survivals and power are identical in this story as a one theme. As the boys in this story fight each other, the people in this world do the same thing. For their desire, they put themselves in the difficulties. In this island, there are only young kids, but actually they’re shadowing the same things that are so recognizable to us to feel the similarities. The author, Modling related the story and the world so effectively to show the similarities so that readers can feel a lot of things about their behaviors and society.
In the story, the conclusion to resolve or fix this problem is to make sacrifice of suffering or separating themselves from the society. In the world, there are still many sacrifices to suffer in the society during the progress of fighting, and also there are so many difficulties to get out of the community.
entry 1
what is the major theme of this novel? why is this theme important to a teenager living in 2007?
In this story, the conflict between the humans is well shown. The kids are isolated in the island, and we can see that kids are making their own society to survive. The rules, leader, and works are supported by themselves to make their survivals. Even with these little kids, there is a conflict of power and force to rule over. Even at the beginning, Jack and Ralph are fighting each other to be the leader of that group. As the story tension is building up, the followers of Jack and Ralph are divided into 2 groups with a big conflict. The theme about this story is to show people’s emotions and thoughts that are against each other in their areas to survive. The kids are foreshadowing the truth that people fight with blood for their benefits to rule over and enjoy it. The title, “Lord of The Flies” is meaning the situation these kids are involved in. People’s eagerness, desire, and grudge for their powers put themselves into hell with suffering of death. The lord is just the boss of the companions as many as the numbers of flies. In this story, it tells our teenagers for our behaviors in our own society. Even in the school, the force against force and fighting still exist. By this story, teenagers are able to know how they should react and understand their own community.
In this story, the conflict between the humans is well shown. The kids are isolated in the island, and we can see that kids are making their own society to survive. The rules, leader, and works are supported by themselves to make their survivals. Even with these little kids, there is a conflict of power and force to rule over. Even at the beginning, Jack and Ralph are fighting each other to be the leader of that group. As the story tension is building up, the followers of Jack and Ralph are divided into 2 groups with a big conflict. The theme about this story is to show people’s emotions and thoughts that are against each other in their areas to survive. The kids are foreshadowing the truth that people fight with blood for their benefits to rule over and enjoy it. The title, “Lord of The Flies” is meaning the situation these kids are involved in. People’s eagerness, desire, and grudge for their powers put themselves into hell with suffering of death. The lord is just the boss of the companions as many as the numbers of flies. In this story, it tells our teenagers for our behaviors in our own society. Even in the school, the force against force and fighting still exist. By this story, teenagers are able to know how they should react and understand their own community.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
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