lord of the flies notes

Moody Language

MoodSCARWITCH-LIKE CRY

TORN

DECAYING

SKULL-LIKE

DAZZLING

DANCED AND SHATTERED

GOLDEN LIGHT

long, grinding roar

swathing mirages

wrestlingbrilliant

attacked

attacked

threatening weightill-omened

SHADOWSvivid phantoms

warmer than his blood

Characters

...so far...

Ralph• careless and a little stuck up?

• Builds shelters for everyone

• likes to be in charge and being nekkid

• blonde, twelve, not in “awkward teen” stage yet

• dad is in the Navy so he could swim since age five

• ALMOST feels bad for Piggy.

• He’s the CHIEF: everyone listens to him

• Two-faced? Nice to Piggy at the beginning, now he’s not very nice to him

Piggy• Festively plump

• Pale

• Can’t swim

• Intelligent & Polite

• Parents both died

• Lived w/ auntie- fed him tons of candy

• Gets picked on

• Insecure about his weight

• Right almost ALL the time - but nobody listens to him!

• Misunderstood

Jack• Tall, thin and bony with red hair &

freckles

• Not very attractive

• Strong-willed and longs for power

• Lead choir boy

• Wants to be alpha male

• Wants to seek, kill, destroy: bloodlust

• Crude

• Not very moral

• No rules! Boooooooooo!

Simon•Shy and sensitive

•Friendly

•Likes to be included/accepted

•On the smaller side

•Nervous in front of a croud

•Goes off into the woods by himself to empty space

•Helps the littluns; nice and caring

Roger

•Dark Mood

•Keeps to himself

•Kind of mysterious

Sam & Eric•So close that they are usually

treated as one person: Samneric

•They look and do everything the same

•They’re enthusiastic

•Didn’t keep the fire going

“Littluns”

•Afraid and confused

•Don’t speak up most of the time

•Want their parents

What do we know?•Plane crash - fire, storm

•Piggy thinks they were shot down

•Appears deserted

•Late 1940’s-ish (post WWII)

What don’t we know?

•Were they shot down?

•Was home hit by an atom bomb?

By Sam Weber

How does the author tell us about the characters?Think

Say

Feel

Do

What do others say?

What is an Interior Monologue?

A narrative of exactly what’s going on in a character’s head

What makes it difficult?

It’s hard to reproduce authentic “thought”.

If you do it TOO well, it stops making sense

Character

Frightened or worried?Lost love?

Paranoia?

What’s haunting his thoughts?

A crime he is about to commit?

Traumatic event witnessed that day?

Insecurities?

Outward appearance vs. Inner Thoughts

Read Around: • Student’s name who is speaking

• Character they chose

• Two things you like/thought were interesting about their monologue

• One thing that wasn’t in the book

• At the very end:

• What piece of the iceburg did you see? What do you understand about what’s going on “behind the words” that you didn’t understand before?

Metacognition

Stick with me now...

You Have Your Own Experience!

Valid Reading +

Your purposes, mood & background experiences

=MEANING

Same reading, different results!Ashley: a + b

= c

Doug: a + f = r

Miss Adsit: a + m = h

Miss Adsit 1999: a + g = l

•What was happening in your head while that happened? (Metacognitive thinking)

•What did you think was going to happen next? (Predict and anticipate)

•What clues did that conversation give you about my personality (assuming it was real)? (Making judgements about characters and character actions)

•Did that conversation remind you of any other teachers or adults? (Building meaning through accumulated clues)

“Carrying a stick sharpened into a makeshift

spear, Jack trails a pig through the thick jungle,

but it evades him. Irritated, he walks back to the

beach...”

Really Insightful, SparkNotes

“We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything. So

we’ve got to do the right things.” - Jack

Themes

What is the author trying to tell you?

Despicable Me

Shrek

Spiderman

Characters:•Jack - Demi

•Ralph

•Jack - Part 2 - Stephan

•Roger

•Simon - Kristen?

•Lord of the Flies: Nathan

•Pi

Themes•Savagery vs. Civilization

•The Nature of Evil (and the fear of it)

•Man vs. Nature

•Dehumanizing Relationships

•Rules and Order

•Power

•Identity

•Loss of Innocence

•Individualism vs. Community

With the themes...

Write down five themes, where you found them in the chapter,

and why you think that your example fits with that theme.

Chapter Eleven: Castle Rock

Allegory

Allegory

A story, poem, or picturethat can be interpreted to reveal

a hidden meaning,typically a moral or political one.

Allegorical Symbols• Ralph [civilization, leadership, order,

democracy] and Jack [lust for power, savagery]:

• Roger [evil, savagery, cruelty] and Piggy [friendship, loyalty, order, civilization]:

• The conch [democracy, rules & order] and Lord of the Flies [evil at the heart of man]:

• The hunt [the individuals] and the shelters [community]:

• The beast [evil at the heart of man]:

• Samneric [unity, community]:

Chapter ElevenWe will read through while searching for allegorical symbols and how they

are used.

When I ask a question, don’t answer- just think of a response.

After a few moments I will call on someone.

Take notes in your own way. You will be graded on participation and

completionat the end of the period.

...adult life appears, dignified and capable, but in reality enmeshed in the same evil as the symbolic

life of the children on the island. The officer, having interrupted a man-hunt, prepares to take the children

off the island in a cruiser which will presently be hunting its enemy in the same implacable

way. And who will rescue the adult and his cruiser?