Monday, October 5, 2009

Lord of the Flies: Chapter 8

Lord of the Flies
Chapter 8 - Gift for the Darkness
"I brought you a cookie, but I eated it."
Perspective: Me!

Jack and the hunters go to hunt for meat, but I don’t think they had to be that brutal and savage when they went about killing it. They found a pig, a mother sow, they didn't pick an old on that'd lived a long life. But a young healthy sow that had children. Then when they attacked her, she got away. While they were tracking her, she lost a lot of blood. Then she was so far gone she collapsed. She probably would have died anyway, or she wouldn’t have struggled if they decided to just walk up and cut her throat. But instead they leapt upon her stabbing and stabbing, not caring where they hit, causing so much unnecessary pain. Jack, the prefect, who’s supposed to know best isn’t even trying to get meat anymore, he just wants to see blood, and doesn’t care if the death is quick. He paunched her, and Golding described the guts. It was just to bloody and violent. Plus this was being done by kids younger than me. Then he cut the head off so easily, and rammed it onto the stick, the other end protruding from the pigs mouth. It was too graphic, and the ending to violent, almost demoniac. Thing so unnatural should be tabooed. It’s not right, to kills something so horribly and mutilate its corpse, living things should be given respect, not used as leverage against fear. These boys are far from the demure boys they used to be.

The good and bad in the boys is done with the war and equality, now the bad is winning over, and swallowing up the good. Ralph cannot keep the littl’uns or the even Piggy away from Jack and his offers of leadership, and his treats.




4 comments:

Dylan K's Humanities Blog said...

Brianne, great jod on you blog post! I do agree that this was defenitly the most terifying part of the chapter, but it was not the most interesting(Personal opinion). The reason I find it the most terifying is due to the shear blood shed, and how well Golding described it. I do not however find it the most interesting because I found Simons incounter with the Lord of the Flies more interesting. Perhaps you should work on your grammar.(Like I should talk:)

Noah Dillard said...

not just an old one that already old, but a young health one that had children. i dont really ynderstand this part, but the rest of it is fine and u did a great job.

Noah Dillard said...

not just an old one that already old, but a young health one that had children. i dont really ynderstand this part, but the rest of it is fine and u did a great job.

Kamil said...

Instead of saying she lost a lot of blood.. Say she lost a great dealing of blood, it makes it seem more professional.

I like how you highlighted your vocabulary word! Nice!

Nice job overall on your blog I think you did a very fantastic job!

Keep it up!

Kamil Arrington :)