Showing posts with label Paradis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paradis. Show all posts

Thursday, May 3, 2007

~The Morning Globe~

Chapter 12 ~Cry of the Hunters~

In chapter 12, Ralph is huddled in the jungle near Castle Rock.Samneric, who are guarding Castle Rock under Jack's Permission are approached by Ralph. They inform him that Jack's tribe will be out hunting him the next day, and they had sharpened the sticks on both ends. Ralph tells Samneric of his hiding spot, and proceeds back to it. Scared by Jack's power, Samneric tells Jack about Ralph's hiding spot . Other attempts of getting Ralph from his hiding spot are unsuccessful, so they set the entire area on fire for pay back. Ralph begins to run from the advancing fire, making his way to Simon's mat of creepers where he hides and lays low. The savages advance with the fire, searching, hunting for Ralph. They finally reach Ralph's hiding spot, and Roger looks in. Ralph attacked him, pushed him over and continued running to the beach. Running fast, he almost crashed into a Naval officer standing at the beach, whom was attracted by all the fire and smoke. He assumed that their stay on the island, must have been all "fun and games," but is surprised at the spears and face paint on many of the boys. Some are crying, others are confused. The officer is told that two boys were killed, and everyone was taken to a Navy cruiser.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Supplementary Task IV

Some events that happened in the book are easy to relate to real life.
In chapter four where they kill the pig for food, and how the pig was not enough for all of the guys, reminded us of how people live in Africa. The everyday problems that they go through. The food shortage that they have, and how some die do to that food shortage. Seeing the boys struggle on the island shows how harsh life could be without parents, food, or anything that we have in our lives. Sometimes it makes us wonder how we would've felt or acted if we were stuck on an island like them.

Monday, April 23, 2007

Chapter 6: ~Beast from Air~


In the darkness late during that night, Ralph and Simon carry a Lil Luns back to the shelter before going to sleep. As the boys sleep, military airplanes battle fiercely above the island. None of the boys see the explosions and flashes in the clouds because the twins Sam and Eric, who were supposed to watch the signal fire, have fallen asleep. During the battle, a parachutist drifts down from the sky onto the island, dead. His chute becomes tangled in some rocks and flaps in the wind, while his shape casts fearful shadows on the ground. His head seems to rise and fall as the wind blows.
When Sam and Eric wake up, they tend to the fire to make the flames brighter. In the flickering firelight, they see the twisted form of the dead parachutist and mistake the shadowy image for the figure of the dreaded beast. They rush back to the camp, wake Ralph, and tell him what they have seen. Ralph immediately calls for a meeting, at which the twins reiterate their claim that a monster assaulted them. The boys, electrified and horrified by the twins’ claims, organize an expedition to search the island for monsters. They set out, armed with wooden spears, and only Piggy and the Lil Luns remain behind.
Ralph allows Jack to lead the search as the group sets out. The boys soon reach a part of the island that none of them has ever explored before—a thin walkway that leads to a hill dotted with small caves. The boys are afraid to go across the walkway and around the ledge of the hill, so Ralph goes to investigate alone. He finds that, although he was frightened when with the other boys, he quickly regains his confidence when he explores on his own. Soon, Jack joins Ralph in the cave.
The group climbs the hill, and Ralph and Jack feel the old bond between them. The other boys begin to play games, pushing rocks into the sea, and many of them lose sight of the purpose of their situation. Ralph angrily reminds them that they are looking for the beast and says that they must return to the other mountain so that they can rebuild the signal fire. The other boys, lost in whimsical plans to build a fort and do other things on the new hill, are displeased by Ralph’s commands but unwillingly obey.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Supplementary Task II

Chapter1:
We felt bad for piggy during the first chapter. How he said that everyone back at home called him piggy and after everyone starts calling him piggy was mean. Also in chapter one there were parts where they said that piggy was fat. Also by calling someone "Piggy" we thought that it gives a bad expression about the person's characteristic because we judge pigs as people that eat a lot.

Chapter 2:
Fire on the mountain was a important part of this chapter for us. This part was the most important part because it showed how they treated Piggy and how disrespectful they were to him just because he was different from the rest of the guys by taking the lenses from his glasses and using it to make fire. It also shows why Piggy's behaviour was the way it was. While Piggy struggled to believe that someone would come and save them, Ralph was giving the other boys and telling them to cheer up and believe that his dad will come and save the.

Chapter3:
Jack is busy tracking a pig at the start of this chapter, when he arrives at the beach where Simon and Ralph are constructing huts. Ralph complains no other boys are helping them with their shelters, but Jack tries to argue that hunting is more important; this expands into yet another argument between Ralph and Jack. When Jack again brings up hunting, Ralph presses that keeping the signal fire is much more important than hunting. Jack disagrees, and they boys continue on their path of mutual dislike. We find it interesting how Ralph thinks that no one is helping them, but if he was all alone on the island he would most likely have problems doing most of the things that they're working on with each other. So we don't think he should blame others for not helping them because they are helping but not with the shelter.

Monday, April 16, 2007

Chapter 1: ~The Sound of The Shell~


Ralph and Piggy meet after having their plane crash/shot down near an island. The boys were the only ones on this island, there were no adults around, and the pilot of the plane was missing. They tried swimming, but piggy could not swim because of his Asthma. Ralph finds a conch shell, and piggy tells Ralph if he could use the shell to make noise. Piggy asks everyone their names, it was just something that piggy wanted to do every time he met someone. As time went by the boys met each other and got to know each other. Ralph insists that his father, a commander in the Navy, will come and rescue them. Both of Piggy's parents had already died. Piggy doubts that anybody will find them, and suggests that the boys should gather together.