If you are behind, please devote some time tonight to your book. It is relaxing, enriching, empowering and fun!
Tomorrow: You will have 30 minutes to complete your paragraph. If you realize you will need more than 30 minutes, please work on the paragraph this evening.
Use all of your handouts.
Edit for strong verbs.
Here is a sample paragraph if you are worried that you are not on the right track:
In the novel, Lord
of the Flies, by
William Golding, the boys symbolize a beast on the island because of
their destructive, naïve, and impulsive demeanor. Immediately after
realizing that he is stranded on the island, one of the main
characters, Ralph, enjoys bullying another child named
Piggy, making cracks about his weight, the way he talks, and the way
he conducts himself. Golding uses the critical nature of Ralph to
portray a generalized discontent among society, and the far too
common judging of others. Ralph is generally accepted as the leader
even though Piggy makes all the decisions due to an inacceptance of Piggy's chubby, logical nature. In the middle of choosing leadership, the group of boys
notice a “creature [stepping] from the mirage on to clear sand”
(15). This “creature” turns out to be a marching group of boys.
Through this symbolism, Golding makes the point that, in fact,
society is the monster here. Earlier in the novel the removal and
replacement of clothes portrays detachment from society and freedom,
and conformity to societal customs and insecurity respectively.
Furthermore, Golding reinstates this message when the boys find a
boulder while exploring and decide to heave it down the mountain,
“[smashing] a deep hole in the canopy of the forest” (25). On the same page, the forest “shook as with the
passage of an enraged monster” (25). Ralph and the other boys are
disturbing the natural order and flow of the island just to have some
momentary enjoyment. By the same token, after the boys tear
themselves away from the triumph, they climb further up the hill to
discover a cirque on the side of the mountain where “the air was
thick with butterflies, lifting, fluttering, settling” (25), which
further contrasts with the man-made destruction that occurred only
moments earlier. All things considered, Golding makes incredible use
of symbolism and irony to show that the real menace on the island, in fact,
are the boys who have just arrived.
Thanks, Nathan. A great analysis of chapter one.
