Lord of the Flies #9

You know I've been saying over and over again Light up the Darkness. But what is Light? And what is Darkness? Is Light the good of men? And if so does that make Darkness the evil of men? Then comes the bigger question how do you Light up the Darkness? Some spend their lives dedicated to doing it, they spend their lives finding out how to get rid of Darkness without committing Darkness itself. Even for me, I find my ways of doing it to be fruitless. At first my way of trying to keep people happy worked, but eventually I came to a wall that I just could not overcome. That wall was Love, one of the things that creates the brightest Light, but because it's so bright once it goes off you seem to have forgotten what it feels to be embraced by the Darkness. When that happens what will you do? I closed off my heart, and I'm gradually opening it again thank God.

"When you are the sun you forget what it means to be cold."

Well on the other hand as you can see by the title this is another blog for school :P
Sorry I just haven't been able to write things on my own time, but I will soon...I hope.
In this blog I will be answering three questions that relate to how children should be tried as adults.

1. Do children commit adult crimes?
See for me this question poses another question, is there such as thing as crimes that only adults can commit? Isn't it true that anyone can commit a crime no matter the age? You can't say that children can't commit adult crimes because there is no such thing as an "adult crime" only crimes. I have no idea why some people think that crimes should be limited to adults. If you commit a crime you should be punished equally. I myself think that anyone can commit a crime but the question is, for my teenage readers, will you commit it? It can only depend on your will.

2. Do you think Jack should be tried as an adult?
Jack knows what death is, but I don't think he should be tried harshly. Throughout the book he never actually killed anyone. Simon's death was unintentional, and it was really Roger who killed Piggy. If anything the one who should be tried should be Roger because he killed Piggy intentionally. The only crime that Jack should be tried for is the crime of the aid of the killing of Simon and the crime of attempted homicide.

3. Do you think children should ever be tried as adults?
Yes and No. There are a lot of things revolving around the issue, but in my honest opinion if the child knows what death is then they should be tried as adults. I think that if a child doesn't know what death is then the case is different because the child is to pure to know what he/she did. A child's mind sometimes doesn't know what he/she is doing. That is why there is so many issues revolving around the issue, because it's all about psychology.

Lord of the Flies #7

Right now I am tired beyond recognition, but I am writing this right now because of two reasons...well actually three. The first reason is because this is homework, the second is because I'm tired and I just feel like ranting a little right now before I do my homework, and finally the third reason is because I just want to say to the whole world I had a lot of fun today.
Now before my assignment I want to rant. So before I got home at my usual time of 8:30, I decided I would get a coke, so I took all the extra change I had and started putting all my coins in...I was twenty cents short so I just got my change back and quickly got into the incoming trolley. Now when I looked into my pocket the weirdest thing happened I magically had an extra quarter. Which just goes to show everyone, I'm one lucky guy because I got my soda in the end. ^_^

Date Unknown, 1941

Journal Entry #3
I woke up in a cage this morning tired and confused, my captures were only a few feet away, as I stirred in my cage the woke up. One of the boys was a bigun he raised his spear and threatened to kill me if I tried to escape. I could only gulp down my breath, as I opened my mouth to say something a loud noise, or a call "resounded around the island."(175) The boys are around me started mumbling something about a "conch"(15) they suddenly left as if I was just a memory of the past. I stared dumbfounded at my captures who suddenly forgot their prisoner. I could only help but laugh when I broke myself out when I guessed they were out of earshot. My first thought was to get out of here but then I became curious and started heading toward the part of the island the kids called "Castle Rock."(174) As I walked closer to Castle Rock I noticed a small amount of "smoke"(174) coming from it. Then all I heard was yelling coming from the kids.

As I looked out at the scene I saw the boys with everyone facing Ralph, Piggy and Samneric. I could only look as I saw Ralph and Jack suddenly battle it out in front of the boys. I have to say at this moment, all children in this island were going crazy, and Jack was still the worse of them all. His OCD was putting up a stubborn front of everyone what he was doing was wrong and I knew that, he has been doing evil deeds on this island and I wonder if Ralph could stop him. I honestly think he's the only one on this island that had any sense. Suddenly "Roger rolled a huge rock at Piggy and he fell with the conch shattering into a million pieces."(181) At that moment I just realized something, Roger had killed Piggy, and from his face he enjoyed it, it was as if he had a bad case of psychological trauma. He was murderers and I realized that he was just as worse as Jack except Roger had a murderes intent, Jack wanted order and would go to extremes. Scared for my life I ran, and I realized even Ralph was running away from the group. Right now I'm somewhere very far away from the group, I'm on the other side of the island to be exact.

Lord of the Flies #6

They say people who procrastinate always get the worst luck, well that means I'm going to have a hell of a day tomorrow. I have an essay due in about 10 hours and I am doing this right now when I had...around 8 hours to do it. So this just goes to show to all people who procrastinate out there, DON'T PROCRASTINATE! Because it's a very bad habit and can cause a lot of problems in the future, trust me on this one. Nothing ever good comes from procrastinating and I know best about that, I mean I'm doing this really late at night and I still have to finish my essay.
Man I'm going to be tired in the morning, he but what do you expect, that's what I deserve for blowing this off at the last minute.

Anyway this blog will be just like last one, so I will be acting as a counselor. But first I would like to say I have reached the point in the book where things get really crazy.
Hobey Ho let's go!

Date Unknown, 1941
Journal entry number 2, still no sign of rescue, I wonder if people have their hands full with the war right now? I woke up this morning with solemn faces surrounding me, no one would tell me why. As I went around the island I didn't see Simon anywhere, I had asked Ralph if he had seen him. Then all of a sudden Piggy was yelling, "that the group of boys killed him thinking he was the beast."(153) I shuddered as they told me the story, unconsciously I thought of how this would effect them over time, death is not something children at this age should cope with. They would probably have horrific nightmares or maybe even a slight case of hysteria, "Ralph though didn't seem affected by the death of Simon"(155), I wondered if he had already gone through something like this.

Though now the boy I am truly worried about, and frightened of, is Jack. He seems to have a horrible case of OCD, he does those weird dances and hunts pigs as if they were rituals to relieve his anxiety or stress. I worry about the boys surrounding him, it seems he wants everything to go his way or he will "punish you"(159) if you don't follow his orders. In my professional point of view I can come to the conclusion that Jack is officially & legally crazy. He will probably need years of therapy to get rid of his extreme version of OCD of course after his sentence in jail for the involvement of murder. As of now most boys on this island, in fact all probably fear him after what had happened to Simon, it was "Murder"(156). I wish I could do something right now but I have been banished to some random remote part of the island. Jack's boys thought that it would be better if I stayed out of the way of their freedom. So as of now I am writing this somewhere trapped in a cage, of course I get fed every now and then, but still it's cruel.

End Entry

Lord of the Flies #5

What's up homo sapiens?!
Well in this blog I will be acting as a therapist or a counselor and I will be diagnosing the boys with a mental disorder. You know like OCD, Schizophrenia, PTSD and all the other things you can think of. There was also something I had wanted to say but I forgot about it when I was linking the disorders. Man and it was something really good, you know how I have a little rant at the beginning of my blogs...I forgot what I was going to rant about. Man this makes me so sad...well whatever, I'm just going to tell you something that I learned today.
"Wisdom comes from experience and nothing else."

Now it is time, time to enter the abbyss called my mind.

Date unknown, 1941
I have drifted on this weird island the last thing I remembered was how my transport ship got targeted by the German's...many people died. I don't know what day it is, but I'm pretty sure that I am still in the year 1941.

I have found a group of children on the island, "British", by the sounds of them. I ask them how long they have been here, they really don't know, not one has kept track of time. I feel that I am an outsider among these children, and to be honest I am a little afraid of them. Especially Jack, he's the main hunter on this island, and he "hunts pigs"(135) for his own separate group. Apparently there was a fight amongst Jack and Ralph about how things should be run, and it split up the children, one group just wants to have fun while the other just wants to get rescued. Right now I'm their only link to the outside world, I hope that someone rescues us. Or if at least someone tried searching for any survivors from the shipwreck and hopefully they run onto this island.

The longer I stay here though, the more I think that these children are losing their heads. Especially this one boy named Simon, I've seen him "talking to a pig head that Jack put on a stake"(137) for the so called "beast" the children are afraid of. I worry for Simon, I think that maybe he has a serious case of Schizophrenia. Many of the boys here have probably gone through a lot of things they should not be going through. This type of stress on a person can be serious it can cause a lot of damage to the brain. I think some of the boys are suffering from other mental disorders also. I will be writing in here later to talk about the other disorders I diagnose the rest of the children with.

Lord of the Flies #4

Hello Humans of EARTH!
Now time to talk more about Lord of the Flies! In this fascinating new post I will be talking about Authority!! You know the thing people have, hate or are afraid of. But before I talk about that I just want to say I have posted up a blog about cooking though the thing is I haven't posted up any recipes yet so it's really nothing yet, but if you want to follow here's the site
http://foodofandres.blogspot.com/
ANYWAY! Time to explore my mind, I mean why else are you here?
This is the Mind Of Andres!
oh and one more thing before I forget
HAPPY BIRTHDAY J. J.!!!!

Authority!
It is such a pain to be honest, there is no freedom with it, you have no idea how many people's faces I've wanted to punch. Of course I've wanted to do it with good reason, you have no idea how many of my friends that are girls, get treated badly by the guys they date, and I always want to beat them up when I see them. That is where AUTHORITY comes in, I can't do anything without getting busted, and what annoys me even more is that the things I do have good reason, but that is not the case for authority. Instead they think that justice has to be handled differently, but that is what makes me even angrier. What is a slap on the wrist going to do? Some people need a taste of their own medicine, they need to feel what it's like to be treated the way they treat girls...of course the same applies when it's girls that are in the wrong. But I don't try to hurt girls so that is when things become difficult, I guess what I'm trying to say is that without Authority I guess I would go beating up every guy that has hurt my friends. Without authority only chaos ensues.

Chaos though, is inevitable for the children on the island already I see that the small authority called Ralph will be challenged. By who? Well I can only guess that it would be Jack the one that also wants to be chief. There have been many incidents where Ralph's authority has been ignored, one instance has been when Jack went hunting and let the signal fire die out. Another instance where the children acted differently without authority, and the author clearly spelled it out, was when Henry picked on the littluns. Also something that has appeared over and over again, is how they pick on each other, I would not say that this is a big thing but if grown ups where around would they do it? I really don't think that they would, because you know that's just how grown ups are, they would not let the children pick on each other.

See I will always hate authority, and for more than one reason, but what will happen without it? The answer is simple an I have already said it, Chaos. Without authority there is no one to control people's anger, there would be no one around to stop people that kill. People would go mad thinking that they are all powerful, or that they can do whatever they want. Just like the children think they could do whatever they want, but there is a limit to what you can do, and once that limit is passed you will only see trouble. Though I hate it, Authority needs to be kept in society, becuase without it there would be no society.

Lord of the Flies #3

What's up people's!
OK I know I've been saying that I will be putting up something that the masses will like, and I've come up with a cooking blog. I will put up a new blog in a week or two, when I do the link will be in a new post of mine. I will call it...I haven't really thought of a title to be honest, but it'll be awesome. Of course I'll still keep this blog up to talk about my opinions on light versus darkness because I still have the passion of Lighting up this world. I still haven't forgot my promise.

Anyway this blog is the same as the first one I did for summer school, Quote, Question & Comment, but before that I just want to say that Lord of the Flies has been quiet enjoyable.

Quote:

“He capered toward Bill, and the mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness

Question:

Why did Jack go crazy when he put on the clay on his face?

Comment:

For me this is a sort of personal experience, I myself always put a mask on, though not literally. I just never show my true face to anyone, but when I really put on a real mask I feel like I am different, a bit crazed of course but different. In this way I think Jack and I are similar and I can understand what it feels like when you put on a mask, the rush, your imagination becoming real. It is nothing to scoff at really because it can be really serious for one reason; you never know what you’re going to turn into. Though I fear for the rest of the group what will happen when he puts on the mask and he tries to kill someone, the mask that Jack puts on is the mask of a bloodthirsty hunter, which is what it symbolizes for me. And with this new twist in the character I can only see that Jack and Ralph might argue, dark against light two forces clashing against each other to see who is actually right on the matter of this survival game that these boys are going through. I can only hope that no one dies, but who knows I think someone will especially with the first death or should I say “disappearance” of the little boy with the mulberry birthmark. This book is just crazy, so I think anything can happen in an island with boys that have twisted personalities. Though I’m pretty sure that the killer will probably be Jack.

Lord of the Flies #2

HELLO! PEOPLE OF EARTH!
I now at the moment have one reader my summer school teacher Angie, yay for me! ^_^
Anyway as you can see this new post will be for school again, I know I said that I would put something cool next time but how can I if I don't know if anyone is reading this except my teacher? Maybe if I get more readers I will put up cool posts like Recipe of the week or maybe even if there is a certain event happening and to give you heads up on when it's going to happen. I don't know I'm just a teenager....Anyway this post will be three paragraphs long and it is about who I would want as a leader. The leader being someone from Lord of the Flies of course, and I should chose carefully or I might regret it. Anyway time for my rant.


Leaders, have always been such a pain for me, well this is my opinion really. Most people who take lead have always...seemed to know less then I do, and I always wonder why I myself don't try to take leadership. Maybe it's because I haven't met someone who knows how to take authority. If I ever wanted someone to take lead I would want him/her to at least know more than I do on how to do something, or in the case of the book, SURVIVE. I also want him/her to be kind to his/her followers if not what is the point of being a leader, you should not rule with an iron fist, it's just wrong to do so, because people have no voice. So how would you know what your followers are thinking if you rule them with fear and they fear to speak their mind their opinions. See I have no idea what I look for in a leader, maybe because I myself am a natural born leader I just haven't realized it yet. But if I ever do want someone as a leader I at least want them to be the opposite of what I described a bad leader as.

Though I have to say that if I had to chose a character from Lord of the Flies I have no idea who to chose. Though I know I won't chose Jack cause he's a bit....crazy in my opinion, so it's a tie between Piggy and Ralph. Piggy, though not strong physically, is strong mentally, he sees the bigger picture on what is happening in this scenario. Ralph on the other hand has that strong sense of a leader that is fair, a leader that is strong willed, even though I said that they have to be at least smarter than me I think Ralph would be someone I would chose as a leader. I'm not saying that Ralph is dim, what I am saying is that from what I've read so far Ralph has not done a very good job with certain things. Such as the construction of the huts for shelter, it seems that Ralph is not capable of keeping control of the group. Though he is persistent and he continues to make the huts, and I hope that as more people see him doing this they will follow suite, like Simon for instance who stayed to help the hard working Ralph. Also Ralph has that hope that one day they will be rescued by his dad, it's not really silly to think the impossible, because the impossible can be made possible. And with this hope that Ralph is giving the children it bring a light into this dark scenario, a scenario where people see him as a beacon to follow, whom without people would be lost with. That is why out of all the characters in the book I would chose him as a leader, because he has a symbol, the conch. He was the man to gather all the children and form a group that is fighting for survival.

Ralph is a leader and that's all there is to it, but what makes him a leader is the same as every leader that has been recorded in history. It is that he himself is a symbol of light, not the conch, but him. For me that's what makes a good leader, someone who is a beacon for all to follow into safer shores. He is also someone that knows, even though he doesn't really know, he has that instinct of a leader who knows well his waters and can steer through safely without complaints his crewmen. And that's all there is to it really, Ralph is a natural born leader.