HELLO! EVERYBODY!
It's been a while since I have written in here and of course with that I am now down to zero readers so that means no fans for me. Yet how can I make up for that? My guess is to write things that people will love to read, to agree to,maybe a little help on certain things.
ANYWAY! Before I lose myself I am writing this post for school and I should at least try not to ramble on about my feelings. What I have to do is create a new post everyday...or was it every weekday? O_o
I don't remember. But that's not the point the point is I am extracting quotes from "Lord of the Flies" and questioning them and of course answering that question. So here is my quote.
QUOTE:
It's been a while since I have written in here and of course with that I am now down to zero readers so that means no fans for me. Yet how can I make up for that? My guess is to write things that people will love to read, to agree to,maybe a little help on certain things.
ANYWAY! Before I lose myself I am writing this post for school and I should at least try not to ramble on about my feelings. What I have to do is create a new post everyday...or was it every weekday? O_o
I don't remember. But that's not the point the point is I am extracting quotes from "Lord of the Flies" and questioning them and of course answering that question. So here is my quote.
QUOTE:
" There came a pause, a hiatus, the pig continued to scream and the creepers to jerk, and that blade continued to flash at the end of a bony arm. The pause was only long enough for them to understand what an enormity the downward stroke would be."
QUESTION:
Why didn't Jack Kill the pig?
COMMENT:
I think that the reason that jack did not kill the pig was not because he couldn't decide where to stab it, but because he himself along with Ralph and Simon both realized how big it would be to kill an animal. To me I see it as a weakness but at the same time a strength to care for life. It is a weakness because in the current situation that they have fallen into requires to kill animals to survive if they cannot overcome this dilemma then how will they survive.
Though as most of you know for me all life is precious no matter how evil it is, because of a simple reason all evil is good but at the same time all evil is good. There is no place to judge between what is right and what is wrong only to judge what is to be considered Taboo. I know I may sound harsh here but when you kill an animal, you do it to survive, to live, you do it to nourish yourself. And again I will say it if the children do not learn how to take a life how will they survive? You can only last so long on fruits, but I foresee that it will happen in the book, because when you're trying to survive you will do things sometimes that most people should never do. It's survival instincts in the works, you have to do what is necessary to survive sometimes, but when you kill you severe yourself, so I can't wait to see what happens after one of the boys kill an animal. I can only imagine how one will threaten and rebel against the main character and this would probably cause separation of the group, but hey I haven't finished the book yet so I can only guess what's going to happen with the small foreshadowing that the author leaves in the chapters I have read.
1 comment:
Andres,
What an incredibly insightful response! I think that you're right, Jack coulndn't bring himself to kill the pig. It was too scary to do... but he seems so intent on doing it. Why do you think he wants to kill so bad? And I also think you have hit the nail on the head to start thinking about the "evil" of killing...this book explores good and evil. Aas we read, I will be curious to know what you think of people's capacity to be good and/ or evil.
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