has anyone here read Lord of the Flies, and remember the details, I need help for a project so I don’t fail and ruin my entire grade for my first semester!
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Well let’s start with asking: What do you need help with exactly???
everything
I would suggest reading the book first.
You can’t get help if you don’t give me context, thoughts, or any questions lol if this is going nowhere i’m just wasting my post count here
Well, I need a age length of a desc of the setting occasion and time period, a page length desc of the plot, a page length desc of mood, a page length desc of mood, a page length desc of characters!
Damn thats one krappy teacher. Well if it helps use some of my best memory:
Mood: The children seem so free once they make it to the island. At first thinking that it’s great perhaps they are unaware about the struggles they will face not knowing basic survival. This mood would probably be best described as unconscious. As the story progresses and the children realize just how bad their situation actually is it starts there is a popularity contest as to who can be the “leader”. With jealousy playing into the mixed emotions these children are facing rivalry begins to develop and the next thing we know is poor Piggie is pushed off a cliff (whoops). Darkness becomes the mood after this climax now that hunger has striked and there is an incredible competition to find a means to eat.
…tbh i forget how the book ends since its been like 6+ years, but use your own judgement perhaps with what i got to make a page out of it. Double space and Also use the period trick - just make your periods like size 13 or 14 instead of 12. It makes the double spacing like 2% larger and makes sentences seem longer visually. Always works for me
Thanks!!! I have to hand write it which fucking SUCKSSSSSS
I haven’t read the book but I saw the movie. I know there’s Piggie, who’s like the smart overweight kid, I know there’s a blonde dude who’s the leader and ends up making really bad decisions and I know there’s another dude who’s like the rational and sensitive one who doesn’t get along well with the leader and tries to make things his way. There’s also a pilot who ends up dying, a “monster” who lived in a nearby cave that turns out it was only a boar and another kid who ends up dying because he was mistaken by that boar or something. The whole book is an allegory of how easily we forget reason, ethics, morality and manners when confronted with a battle for survival. A masterpiece, in my opinion.
maybe you should read it yourself?
@Yomigaere how about no?
Gypsycurse, if you are still having a hard time on writing this assignment, and you don’t have enough information from all of us PCBians to complete your assignment, then I have some good news for you. I read Lord of the Flies, and watched the film, last year, for my English class. I loved reading the story of the Lord of the Flies. I will give you all the information I have written on my notes, and I will give the importance of every major character included in Lord of the Flies. I’m writing this from my IPod, so the categories won’t look astonishing as I hope them to seem.
Characters:
Ralph: 12 year old, happy modled boy, dreamer, easy going, and very responsible.
Jack: Rival of Ralph, becomes the leader, hunts, and is responsible for killing Simon, Piggy, and nearly killing Ralph. Piggy: short, intelligent, very sensible, has asthma, and wears glasses.
Roger: loyal helper of Jack, after Jack leaves Ralph. Roger is evil, has no mercy, and giggles after pushing Piggy off a cliff, killing him (Film: Roger drops a boulder off a cliff, colliding against Piggy, knocking him into the ocean.
Sam, and Erik: together (they talk accordingly), loyal to Ralph, until Jack captures them.
Simon: mystical child, shortest out of the class of students, wants to know the truth behind the island, brave, killed by Jack’s group (they stabbed Simon with their sharpened sticks).
The parachutist: During the night, on the island, a dogfight takes place, and the parachutist’s plane gets shot down. He escapes the cockpit, and opens his parachute, but ends up dead from hitting the ground, and getting trapped inside a bush. Jack and Ralph are the first main characters to find the parachutist, and they run away after finding him (they thought of him as a beast, not a man, because the location the parachutist is in was dark. Also, the man’s parachute made it seem like he had wings, or big arms).
The conch: The conch is obviously a conch that Ralph finds, on the beach, at the beginning of the story. The conch was meant to show what person should be talking (whoever holds the conch can talk), but Jack disliked Ralph’s idea, and left Ralph. The classes would soon join Jack, because his group has no rules, and they act barbaric, near the end of the story. Piggy sides with Ralph, as Ralph shares many characteristics with Piggy (Ralph is sensible, and civilized). The conch would later be destroyed, as Piggy was holding the conch, while the boulder, Roger purposefully dropped, collided against Piggy, and the conch. The conch can symbolize how civilized all the students are, along with how much color the conch has (the conch looses its color, as the story progresses). Once the conch is destroyed, the students, excluding Ralph, are no longer civilized.
The Lord of the Flies (A pig’s head, on a stick): Jack, and his group kill a pig (Jack claims that the pig is the beast). They decapitate the pig’s head, and place it on a stick. When Simon looks at it, it has flies surrounding the pig’s head (the pig’s head, along with the flies, is the reason why the story is named, the Lord of the Flies). Also, Simon thinks that the pig is talking to him (but the pig’s words are gibberish). Ralph destroys the pig’s head, on the stick, when he is being hunted by Jack, and his group, after Piggy is killed (This leads to the end of the story).
The sailor (at the end of the story): When Ralph is being hunted by Jack, and his group, he finds a sailor, along with his crew, from the British navy. All the students look at the sailors, as they never saw an adult for days. The sailor in the front turns around in disgust, looking at the ocean, as he thinks that the students are playing with each other (The story ends, and the film fades to black, after the sailor turns his head, to the ocean). The sailor, and his crew, found the island, because Jack, and his group, burnt down all the trees, on the island, giving out a lot of smoke, into the sky.
Backstory:
Lord of the Flies takes place on an island, in the middle of the Southern Pacific Ocean. Multiple classes (all the students range from ages 11, to 15), from England, are sent on a plane, after a nuclear war is waged against England (There is a nuclear war going off, in Lord of the Flies, but I don’t know if England is directly involved in the conflict, anyway the classes evacuate the country). While the plane is flying, a fighter jet bombs the plane, leading it directly into the ocean, somehow killing all the adults inside the plane. The students are the only survivors, and must work together in order to survive (opposite thing occurs).
Gypsycurse, look across the Internet (use Joe’s link, or search using Lord of the Flies) for more information about the story. There’s an abundance of information from many trusted sources.
I just realized that this is my 250th post.
Thank you soooo much!!! @BroodingSet
No problem. I remember almost every scene, from the story, and the film. Lord of the Flies would probably be my favorite book, of all time.