Ritual dances

Rituals

The ritual dance in Chapter 9 did not seem too fulfill any function except make every one excited and bloodthirsty. I think that it got out of hand because the boys were over excited and bloodthirsty so they mistook Simon for a beast and killed him. People did not stop the dance because they were excited and bloodthirsty beyound reason and probably did not care if Simon was a beast or not.

Four ritual activities that I do are; making my bed, brushing my teeth, taking out the garbage, and cleaning the dishes off the table.

I think brushing my teeth is the most important ritual. If you do not brush your teeth they will get rotten break, and fall out. Also if you have clean teeth it makes you look more approachable then if you don't. >Nick<

Chapter 12 summary

Chapter 12 summary
This chapter is the climax of the conflict between Jack and Ralph, Piggy died Samneric were captured by Jcak and the rest of the boys(except Ralph) are in Jacks tribe. Ralph has no followers and can no longer go near Jack without being attacked, the chapter starts with Ralph sneaking up to the fringes of Jack's camp and taulking to the newly recruted Samneric, when somone comes along Ralph runs away and goes back into hiding having learned that Jack and the others are going to hunt him next day. Jack is a total savage now and wants to kill Ralph, the rest of the chapter tauks about the tribe hunting Ralph and finally setting the forest on fire to kill him. In the last few pages Ralph gets saved by a pilot and cries over the slaughter on the island. >Nick<

Chapter5

In this chapter, the boys discover a lot of things about themselves. Piggy now talk less and listening more to the others. They had a meeting and they were talking about who did what. Some of the boys are starting to complain about the stuff there is to do they say there’s to much to do. They’re still worry about the beastie and from there it’s going to be a big problem.



by Jeenystha

Chapter 8 summary

In chapter 8 the group of boys led by Ralph break into two, one of the groups is led by Jack and one led by Ralph. At the start of the chapter Ralph makes fun of Jacks hunters and then Jack calls a meeting and declares he doesn't want Ralph to be chief. None of the boys agree with him so he goes off by himself, as the day goes on boys from Ralph's group go to join Jack. After other boys join Jack they go hunting, kill a pig, and stick its head on a stake. Simon who is hidin near by and watches them hallucinates and goes a little crazy when he sees the pigs head, he thinks it talks to him until he eventually falls unconcious. When he wakes up he finds the 'beastie' and finds out it is a dead pilot, then Simon goes to find the others.
Jacks group and Ralph's are very different from each other, Ralph's group establishes another fire and tries to get rescued while Jack's group hunts and has 'fun.' One of the thing that creates conflict between the groups and what I think will eventually lead to violence is that Jack's group needs fire and the only way to get it is to steal it from Ralphs group. >Nick<

movie V.S. book

I want to compare the portion of Ralph found there's a ship pass by but the signal fire is run out.
In the book, it happens in chapter4 and it's a ship goes by, but in the movie, there's a plane goes by. It's not a big problem, but I still think the book's description is much more effective than the movie. In the movie, it just happened in few minutes and there are not many description of Ralph's psychological thoughts of how anxious and sad he is. It's maybe the only chance for them to get rid of this island, but at the timing, the signal fire is run out, they missed this chance. Ralph is so mad at Jack when he saw Jack and his choir hunting back with a pig. Though Jack aplologized, he still didn't realize how seriously the mistake he made is. In the movie, Jack just apologizes and than skip to he bullys Piggys, it doesn't show much about the confrontion between Jack and Ralph. So for this portion, I prefer the book.
*QUEENIE*

CHAPTER6---passage

"a knot of boys,making a great noise that he had not noticed,were heaving and pushing at a rock.As he turned, the base cracked and the whole mass toppled into the sea so that a thunderous plume of spray leapt half-way up the cliff."


This passage shows that as time goes on, the boys begin to forget their main task of exploding the monster and be rescued. They are too fond of play. They are still a group of kids and not mature enough to control themselves and do things in order.That's maybe the foreshadow of the tragedy happens at the end of the book.
&QUEENIE&

chapter4--Important quotes

Important quotes in chapter 4

"Now though, there was no parent to let fall a heavy hand, Maurice still felt the unease of wrong doing," "here invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life." These quots are important because they tell us that the boys still remember there old life and feel guilty when they do stuff that wasn't allowed.