Chapter 11: Castle Rock

This chapter begins as Ralph and Piggy were ambushed from Jack and his hunters. They were jumped for their fire and were in a complete chaos for about an hour and everyone was playing dirty. Ralph and Jack were going at it though. Their fight was personal and at the end Ralph got stabbed very lightly with Jack's pointy spear. Then Roger ran atop of the mountain and started pushing boulders down. While this was happening Piggy had the conch and was trying to speak and down came the tumbling boulder taking him out and killing him. He was taken out from the knee to the chin and left grey matter where he and the boulder landed. This left Ralph all alone since Jack saw this as an opportunity to imprison some of his members. This left Ralph all alone and the hunt of hunts has begun.

Chapter Summary 9 ~A View to a Death~

Simon woke up after hallucinating and imagining about talking to the Lord of the Flies. He was covered with bugs when he woke up and was emotionless when walking out of the forest. He discovers the rotting pilot hanging by the parachute and was vomiting until there was nothing to come out. Meanwhile Ralph and Piggy were playing by the beach and was splashing water at each other. Most of the boys have joined Jack and are eating when Ralph and Piggy bump into them. Jack orders one of the boys to give them both a fair amount of meat. Jack has truly become a leader at this point, but he treats all of them like servants instead of friends. Jack asks who will join his tribe and Ralph argues with him that he chosen as chief in the beginning. As the weather started to get worse, Jack told everybody to dance. Everybody including Ralph and Piggy joined the tribal dance, they all got their spears and started chanting "Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!." Roger was imitating a pig and charged at Jack and the group was actually hitting them. Simon comes out the forest and is mistaken as the beastie and is beaten to death by the group of hyped up boys. Simon's dead body eventually drifted into the sea.

The Daily Mercury

The Daily Mercury

On an island in the Atlantic Ocean, approximately eight pm, Simon's body was found on the nearby beach side. He was floating in the shallow water from being murdered from a group of survivors on the mysterious island. He was seen as the person who at the time as slightly insane and wasn't in any tribe that the survivors created. Most people are concerned on how the group of people, who committed the crime, why did they murder him? What is it for fear or stupidity and ego? The question that usually rings people's ears are the witnesses who had to see Simon's body drift away in sea towards a better place.

Supplementary task VI

In the1960's version of Lord of the Flies the director is very loyal to the book. Every little detail was squeezed in the portion of movie we were able to view. The first six chapters of the book was shown to us on the movie but seemed to quick and cheesy. All the children also seemed younger than expected and changed the mood of the story. The children in the book seemed slightly older ( dealing with height and size). The movie makes the children also take adult responsibilities when the actors themselves don't seem to have the capacity and the willingness to actually complete the tasks at hand. So the book compared to the movie have little to do with. This gives that effect of children who at first have no clue but matured in seconds this is due mostly to the speed of the movie, screenwriter, and director.

Chapter Four: Painted Faces and Long Hair

Most of the kids were playing on the sand not giving a care in the world just having fun and trying to find more fruit to eat. Ralph and Piggy were talking about creating some sundials from sticks and pieces of wood without chunks of metal. Jack and the choir were trying to hunt a pig without anyone noticing they left the fire.
Jack having the confidence of a leader coloured his face with charcoal. This helped give confidence to his men to continue with him to find a pig and bring it back to the group to feast on.
Ralph was relaxing from the onslaught from Piggy's ideas and saw a tiny ship in the distance and started screaming and showing everyone where the ship was. He lead them to the top of their fire mountain to get to make the fire bigger to attract the ship's crew to rescue them. When they arrived there they found no Jack or choir, just smoke and wood. Ralph was furious and started searching atop the mountain for Jack and his crew. In the distance he found them carrying a pig with grins on their faces.
Ralph and his crew ran towards Jack and the choir and started questioning why they weren't at the fire trying to keep it alive while they bring a dead pig and ship deserts them. Jack was getting angry for being blamed and was trying to defend himself with giving the story to them about how he killed the pig and the blood rushing out. Ralph wasn't pleased at all and made an assembly occur and told them all that the assembly will go into the night until everyone knows where the must be at all times.

Supplementary Task 1

With the incidents in the first three chapters some are relevant to the world around us such as the plane crashing and killing animals to survive.

The chaos between the group for order is kind of like a riot and the government. Some governments do not allow people to have equal rights which create riots and have people fighting for rights. This sometimes leads to death or confusion that could have serious implication such as the kids on the island. If no order on land with government with lots of supplies and the people having supplies which in the end people get hurt but not many people die for recklessness. On the island if order isn't brought people die and no one can help if they are dying with the technology that people have with their supplies.

Roasting the pig on a fire can be related to people roasting marshmallows or barbecuing meat to their delight. People roast meat like pork and steak with spices but for the Ralph and the others they get pork straight with no spices which really kills it and no utensils.

The Conch in the book can also be compared to a school bell of some sort or a bell to start an official sport. The sounds coming from the conch and bell from the school means rules will no be in place. Order is brought from the conch and bell. Though the sounds are completely different they mean the same and have different effects on magnitude. A school bell means that people are going to talk to teach students about the world and who to do specific math equations with specialized formulas. The conch means that people will find out what was happened since the last time the conch has been blown.

Another point with the conch is that is represents who is speaking at the moment. Such as mic in a conference. The man or woman speaking in the mic is the person who everyone listens to and has most of the control over words being exchanged. When the conch is being held then the holder has full control over words being said and says their int of view on the situation on the island and how to cope with it. The mic and conch also allow other people to point fingers since the person talking has control and can be questioned without reason. Sometimes a conference can go awry but most of the time is doesn't. The kids on the island have no order whatsoever and talk out of place when certain characters hold the power of words.

The students finding each other on the island is related to new employees meeting co-workers. At first you judge since by looking at someone you tend to tell how one is and how they are treated in life. Other are better off with their clothing or their choice of words when they speak.

The fear of the 'beastie' can referred to animals in the jungle during the night. People who have no clue what is in the jungle will be frightened for whats in the jungle and their safety. People in war torn areas are usually in fear since they have no clue when they might die or be injured with loss of limbs. This is all brought from the unknown facts of your whereabouts. In the book the kid with the mulberry birthmark saw a 'beastie' and was never found again. No one knows he escaped or was eaten. Even so, just being on the island puts fear in the kids since they have no clue what to expect and with no help whatsoever. If one person gets hurt no one has the education to help the healing process of the body or help stave off disease that may be in the fruit they ingest or meat from the animal they feed on.

So most incidents that occur in the story can be related to real situations.