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.

Lord Of the Flies

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:

" 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.

Pride

Pride there is one thing about that word that I don't like because it nearly killed me. I was so full of it I got blinded, I forgot my morals, my beliefs and most of all the feelings of my friends. I forgot that they were my friends I forgot that they were there, and it all happened because of pride. For a couple of minutes...or days, days is more accurate I thought I was all high and mighty and that I could handle anything. That was the dumbest thing I have ever done in my life, I thought that I was above all, I thought that I could do it by myself, but you know what I couldn't and in the process of trying I lost this battle of life. I lost everything that I thought I was above, some people say that one should be proud, but in my opinion it's not great to always be proud. I think that you should only be proud of the work you do and not be proud of yourself because you think you are so great and powerful.

Well I hope this teaches a few something. ^_^

Those Crystal Eyes

I always had a wish, a wish that I knew could not be granted only deserved and I could only work for it. I always wished I had eyes that had such a crystal clear view on Evil and Good, though I know that good and evil is just a matter of perspective. Is it true that as children we have such powerful eyes? I remembered how clear the water used to be, I remembered how clean the streets were. I remember the happiness that surrounded my life, I remember seeing the clear sky, the beautiful moon and the type of things we are capable of. I remember when the things we made were pretty, but now all I see is such atrocious things I don't know what to think of anymore, I can only say that now as people, we've been only focusing on the bad, but that has led us to try to make things better, so in a way it's not entirely bad to have a new perspective that only shows us the evils' of mankind. Yet it still is, because when we see this perspective we always focus on the bad in our lives and after that there can be a multiple number of horrible doors we go through, we need to learn to start focusing on the good, will you ever notice the good things you have? Will you know that you love your friends just because they are there and they are there with you? Will you love your parents because they love you too? Will you notice the beautiful world that has been bestowed upon you? Will we as people, as a whole notice that what we have is a privilege, a gift that we must treasure? This world is in my opinion, God's gift, and I believe it must be treated as God's gift. We have the right to live, but do we have the right to destroy it, and to TURN IT INTO A FREAKING WAR ZONE!?! I want eyes that give me a crystal clear vision on life...but that's not meant for me to have, cause I still need to work for it. My life has been weird but I want to say if I do reach such a state of perspective... I will know what to do with it, because even though I am still a mere child I still have the wisdom to do such great things.

I won't say Light up the Darkness like I always do instead, I will say something else, Drink from the Fountain and let it's powers show you something else in life. Let the Fountain of Wisdom show you something you haven't thought of.

Toward the Gate

It's funny it's been so long since I've written here if any of you are even slightly interested in this blog thanks for reading. I always write on how I am changing and on how I see this world, my opinion has not change that greatly I can only say that I am seeing my flaws and how I am walking more into the darkness and illuminating it's secrets. I always see the good in all people all I want to say I'm glad that I made that New Year Resolution I have changed people in such ways that I can't even believe they are the same people I knew before. I regret though that I have not made such progress though, I haven't really spread my influence that far. I know I should not blame myself because of this because I'm not strong enough to help everyone and I know that but I still feel like I hold the world on my shoulders. If anyone reads this and wants to help in my blind quest please try to contact me, the more people that help he better the change will be. We all know that things will change greatly eventually but that would be our surroundings, when will we actually try to change people. Change a person to do good to know boundaries to know how this world works to know the difference of good and evil. People do change but the thing is people change differently and not everyone will learn the same I am not saying to force them to change for the better, it is always a person's choice if he or she wants to change and if they do why not give them a push in the right direction. Just watching people hoping that they will be OK is not really enough. Pain is something that changes people in a bad way I want to say to relieve pain, to relieve stress, to relieve depression, anger, envy, greed, pride and wrath. Know how to change people and know how different people are, there are two gates everyone will choose go through Good or Evil. What has been your choice?

Movie Review

BLADE RUNNER

This movie can only describe the aftereffects of a utopia, what would happen when humans where cloned and modified to serve other human on the outskirts of Earth? The clones develop feelings is what would happen, Replicants questioned their purpose in life, why they were only allowed to live for four years or less. They rebelled against their masters, wanting to live their own life, some of them hoping to lengthen their time span. As these clones started to think of freedom a special police force unit was created called Blade Runner, they were created to exterminate Replicants. But to the public this was called retirement not extermination. In this great movie (in my opinion) the differences between Replicants and the Blade Runners are questioned the officer named Deccker wonders about the creation of the Replicants, while he faces of with four renegade Replicants that have hijacked a ship and have landed on Earth.

Food crisis in Haiti

I am poor, the prices of food has gone up and all I can feel is the burning sensation in my stomach screaming, screaming, screaming, screaming for food! Our government has done nothing for our economy, we are one of the poorest countries in the world and the only thing most of us can think about is that it is the fault of the government. Most of us have been stealing for food, some us are looking for even crumbs on the floor, then that was even lessening all most of us can think about was the government and how it was their fault, then it started we just started to riot we marched towards the palace, not anything in mind just to get back at them. Then we were surrounded by white fog that burned our eyes some of us couldn't stand it some of us kept going ignoring the blinding pain in our vision. Then I felt the ground with my body laying down, pain all over my body as if I was it by a projectile. I notice others were on the ground, I fainted I find myself in jail still with the burning sensation in my stomach still screaming for what is becoming scarce food.