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Ethan- Music Cade- Football

In this blog post I am going to talk about my Blogging experience this year as a whole. So, this year in English class we started blogging. We are using the website called Blogger. This website is nice because there are as many text options for typing as there are in programs  like Microsoft word. We have to post two posts a week and these are usually different from the past weeks'. We also have to commenting on at least two other blog posts. I really feel honored to have learned how to be such a great blogger.

In my Literary Analysis, I am focusing on the characters' different views of the beast. I find it interesting to compare Simon and Jack's views of the "beast" in LOTF. The main characters I will focus on are Ralph, Jack, Simon, Piggy, and the littluns. As an "overview", Ralph believes the beast is real, but it seems he either doesn't want to accept it's real or he just can't explain what exactly it is. Jack doesn't belive in he beast, but he makes his followers belive it is a scary monster of some sort to make them follow him. Simon, on the hand, believes that the beast is humanity itself. In this very "deep" description, Simon believes that the beast is a composition of all the bad aspects of each boy on the island. Piggy's depiction of the beast is literally that the beast can't exist because it's not possible. And finally, the littluns. Their view is exactly what Jack wants his followers to believe; the beast is some...

Dylan- LOTF Response Cade- Symbolism

Analyzed Section: Piggy's Death(180-181) Right before Ralph hears the rock, while everyone is shouting and arguing, the narrator focuses on Piggy for a split second, saying "By him stood Piggy, holding out the talisman, the fragile, shining beauty of the shell." This sentence shows how in the midst of all the chaos and anger, the conch and all of its order is still there. But then after the conch is "shattered into thousands of tiny fragments", all of the peace and order was lost. And Piggy, the only one who still believed in the conch, had been destroyed just like the conch. Another thing to note right before Piggy's death is how personification is used when describing the boulder rolling down the mountain. The passage goes, "... and he flung himself flat while the tribe shrieked." This pronoun, (his), can be seen as the rock being the beast, or maybe the boulder is just being used like this for no reason. The final thing that will be analyze...

From the moment I went to church for the first time, I knew I could rely on God. When things get tough,  people handle their problems in their own way; I prayed. When I was a kid I would always try to sway my parents to bring me to church. See, my family was Christian, we just didn't go to church. Sometimes I felt as if I was all alone when it came to my faith. But that all changed when I grew up. After college I decided to go around the world. But I would also be teaching the ways of God to many others. The thing is, when I was halfway across the world, I heard some terrible news that caused me to lose my faith in God. I continued my journey across the world, but now I felt alone as ever. The symbolism in this story is God/Christianity.

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Ample: Today, I went to go get some apples from the market. My mother told me that they had to be good and ripe, so that's exactl what I asked the man at the market for. "Well, we sure do have an ample amount of apples here." I looked at him, confused, so he added on, " ample means more than enough, or a lot."  Stoop: I knew that I could not stoop down to his level. He had stolen my things, wrecked my car, and even burned part of my house down. I am better than my father, and therefore I will not be like him.

While reading "Lord Of The Flies" , I have found some things that are very interesting and very puzzling. So, to start things off, the interesting things. Probably the most fascinating part of this book is how these boys managed to stay alive this long. These are just 12 and 6 year old boys who did things like sing in choirs before the crash. Another interesting thing is the way Jack is becoming crazy. I find it intriguing to read these chapters nd slowly watch him transform and only Piggy has really taken note of it. Now onto the puzzling things. By far the most puzzling part of the book is how Piggy is treated. He is the smartest kid there and is treated no better than the littluns. I do believe that he will eventually become valuable to everyone there, but so far he just gets bullied and people steal his ideas. The last thing I have to point out is how the "hunters" are all following Jack when trying to kill pigs, and only Simon and Ralph are doing important t...