I think I'm finally starting to understand Jack's perspective a little more. Although they do need shelters and a signal fire, if they want to stay strong they do need meat. They can't just survive on fruit all the time, but he is going a little overboard by getting everyone to ditch Ralph and Piggy. Ralph did come up with a good alternative to the signal fire on the mountain by building one on the beach. They can avoid the beast and still possibly get passers attention.
When the boys went after the pig and it's babies i felt so sad. I could never do that to a creature and just watch in die while soaking in the amusement of it's death. As important as it is to have food they could have done it in a more civil way, but when Simon was forced to give a sacrafice of the pig head to the "beast" I lost all respect for Jack. It didn't get any better when the head started talking to Simon and I'm not quite sure whether he's gone crazy and imagining all of it or his conscious is actually talking to him.
#12 Gift For Darkness
This was certainly the most disturbing of all the chapters so far, and I think it did a really good job of showing just how far these boys (the hunters) had fallen from sanity. Firstly they brutally killed a mother pig, and it seemed they got some sick, cruel pleasure out of the act. I was not surprised when Jack tried to bribe the other children still with Ralph to joining him with the offer of a magnificent feast. It appears that being on the island is just a big game to him, and he thinks that he will win by gaining the support of everyone and becoming the chief.
I do not think Simon is crazy for talking to the dead pigs head. A little odd, perhaps, but I think he is in fact more sane then the rest. He does not literally mean the pig is the beast with wings and teeth and claws, but that the head on the stick is mere symbol of the beast within them all. The evil and corruptness that all of us are capable of. I believe this is what the author was trying to get across when the pig was saying to Simon "I'm a part of you? You knew that, didn't you?"
Simon always knew there was no monster, just a group of scared and desperate boys in a situation none of them are mature enough to handle.
Entry#14
Chapter ten really showed me who is strong enough to realize they killed a person and who cannot cope with this horrible fact. Jack and Piggy are the ones who cannot cope with what they have done they are denying the fact and avoiding the topic all together. I enjoyed they both believed in the same thing however because it shows they are not that different. All of the other boys realize what they have done but are having a tough time talking about it because there are people around them who do not want to talk about it. I would have liked it if in this chapter they focused more on the death of Simon however, the author talked about what had happened for a short period of time but the more focused on Jack's plans and how he raids the other tribe and steals Piggy glasses. I would have enjoyed the chapter more if they did not talk about stealing Piggy's glasses. I do want to see how the rest of the book plys out after everything that has happened.
#16 Chapter 12 Cry of the Hunters P.203~225
That was some serious man-hunting... It sounded like now that he had seen and killed couple children before, Jack is no longer bothered by the idea of slaughtering another human being. That is very disturbing considering that the kid's not even supposed to be a teenager; imagine what he'll grow up to be. At the end of the book, the sentence "...Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy." displayed the hardship that Ralph went through to be forced into maturity that he may not have reached if not for their drop-off on the island. Until the end, the mood remains dark and miserable, even after the cruise came to rescue them. What Mr. Golding was trying to convey, in my opinion, is that the original nature of humans aren't all civil and gentle as society makes us out to be. It is only under the fences of society that people act like 'proper' men/women. Once they escape the reach, their natural instincts would come out and become as wild as animals; the children in the book were the prime examples for that since they were exposed to the rest of the population for the less amount of time. The children slowly converted into savages that they were made out to be be the author. In the end, even Ralph, the one that resisted till the end, had attacked the others with his spear out of pure self-defence.
This book is very deep and dark. As I read, I thought it was still boring and it lacked humour; our generation needs light laugh to be able to concentrate on one thing, it seems. Though, this whole aspect of fear and human nature was very new to me and was pretty refreshing to me. Although it creeped me out a lot, overall, I'll say it is well written. I would have chosen lighter, more to-the-point type of novel, but this wasn't too bad either...
#16 Cry if the Hunters
I feel really bad for Ralph. He is the last one standing of his kind. All alone on the island with no one to talk to but himself, and all bruised and cut up from Jack and his tribe. I think that Ralph ruining the 'Lord of the Flies' will change things for Jacks tribe, and they will worry and make a huge deal out of it. I think that Sam and Eric really badly want to go back with Ralph and leave Castle Rock, but there scared to, and scared of what could happen to them, and they dont want to chance being tortured again. I feel terrible for Sam and Eric. Them being beaton constantly. I dont understand why they roll the rocks down to the beach. I love the intensity of Ralph when he is running away from the line. His adreniline pumping and everything. Reminds me of playing sports except he is in great danger. I dont really understand how the officer got there. It seemed like he just randomly showed up, unless I didnt read carefully enough. I still dont really understand what happened to Jack or Roger either. I thought the book was veyr hard to follow at times.
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