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Allena Locklear has an interesting perspective on the text and I like how she formatted the type text in her creative way, while still being clear and concise. Though, I do feel like her way of going about the project could have been better, just because each post is very long, which makes you feel drowned in information.

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This student, Allena Locklear, did a great job going into the text and justifying their song choices, but I think that was also the issue I had with the playlist. As the over abundance of explanation felt at times overkill... I think if they reeled it back a little on the words, so it was more short and concise it would be easier to enjoy. Aside from that their color coding and writing style was pleasant. I think using more color change would help ease the feeling of drowning in words.

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Say Yes-Michelle Williams Featuring Beyoncé x Kelly Rowland 2014

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I would like to introduce my playlist with Say Yes by Michelle Williams. In the first chapter of The Lord Of The Flies the boys are getting used to just arriving on the island. The memories of being in school and crowds are still in their minds as they learn of the adjustment that they have to make, to survive. They start their days on the island in a group that marches across the island, which is the largest base of social order that is shown through the novel. And from the very first days we can see that they are letting off of the march and specifics that they arrived with. Their only way of connecting their new life to their old one is through laws that they can create on the island.

This is an excerpt from the novel that shows their civility, "Jack stood up. “All right, choir. Take off your togs.” As if released from class, the choir boys stood up, chattered, piled their black cloaks on the grass. Jack laid his on the trunk by Ralph. His grey shorts were sticking to him with sweat. Ralph glanced at them admiringly, and when Jack saw his glance he explained. “I tried to get over that hill to see if there was water all round. But your shell called us.” Ralph smiled and held up the conch for silence. “Listen, everybody. I’ve got to have time to think things out."(Golding pg. 22)

Say yes by Michelle Williams connects with this through what they find important and who or what they trust. As Ralph and Piggy find that they are on an island and they come across a conch shell.  The conch shell not only makes noise but is almost like the law or ruler on the island. And when someone blows into the conch shell you have to listen, for they are the ones speaking. This level of social order and understanding is something that they all decide to go by, which connects with this musical piece through the lyrics, "When Jesus say yes, nobody can say no". Showing that when someone calls for a meeting you must go; it is not an option, like it is a god that has said something and you need to do it. Another connection with this piece is that the boys really have no extreme worries on if they will get saved or not; because Ralph is there with the conch. And as soon as the boys are given freedom they go off to talk or swim, whereas the leaders try to converse and come up with a plan to survive the change they are all going through. "I'm not worried 'bout a thing, 'Cause I know You are guiding me", is another set of lyrics from Say yes, showing that since they are being guided by someone they see as 'higher up' they don't need to worry about what is happening and that it all will be alright.
This is the civilization and social order that all the boys are used to from their normal lives before the crash. All the boys are behaving in a way that is accepted by traditional social standards, with no savage acts being portrayed. This is the most innocent the boys are and they will soon lose it to the savagery that lies within.

“Say Yes.” Performance by Beyoncé, and Kelly Rowland, YouTube, YouTube, 18 June 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MZxf-lQD-o. Accessed 3 May 2023.

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Say Yes-Michelle Williams Featuring Beyoncé x Kelly Rowland

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The theme that this song shows through this part of the novel is the diminishment of civilization on the island as the boys are there. Within the novel Golding expresses the boys changing from civilized young people, into hunters with the need for survival.

The quote, "He lowered his chin and stared at the traces as though he would
force them to speak to him. Then dog-like, uncomfortably on all fours
yet unheeding his discomfort, he stole forward five yards and stopped" (Golding 48).

Animals by Maroon 5 has a great connection to this part of the text. At this point Jack is on all fours and lowering his chin as if he were a dog in the wild, which is extremely different from how he acted in the days previous to this moment. Within the song the singer says "I can smell your scent for miles" which is what Jack is doing while he is hunting. Though in normal society the boys would not be on the ground like an animal, while trying to hunt, but the boys have slowly begun the change into savagery. The beat of this song also relates to what the reader feels as the boy is in a calm state of mind as he thinks through all the ways he could go and hunt down the animals on the island. But the pace of the song conveys that the boys are also ready for anything to pop out into the open and fight them, as they are out in the wild with little to no knowledge on what is happening.
All of these points show that the boys were once a calm and civilized group. But as they realize that they must do things on their own, they slowly grow toward their primitive and wild side. Golding shows that within every person is the need to hunt and survive, which is greatly shown within this part of his novel. And from my research this song can connect with what Golding was creating to relay what I have learned from the text.

“Animals.” YouTube, YouTube, 29 Sept. 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpgTC9MDx1o. Accessed 29 Apr. 2023.

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Guts Over Fear by Eminem is a good representation of what Jack is going through within the third chapter of Lord Of The Flies. This hip hop song connects with this point of Jack's conflict of following his social morality, or going along with the savage that is growing within them.

In the novel Jack goes through the frustration of survival, "Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss
of indrawn breath, and for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive
thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees. Then the trail, the frustration,
claimed him again and he searched the ground avidly"(Golding pg 49).

Jack has slowly sunk within his own mind of which path he needs to take to survive on this island. Should he go with his primitive instinct? Should he follow the social order that they have created in the absence of adult leadership? He fights with himself over what he should do; which is exactly what this song connects to. The song asks if the singer should change their name or is it to late to go back and change who they have become; which is what Jack is struggling with. Though this is more of an internal change, Jack is losing more of the skills we learn in social interactions with people in society and reverting back to mankind's more primal survival instincts. This connect with the theme due to Jack taking more and more enjoyment in surviving through instinct rather than through intellectual evolvement of today's civilized manners. The string that divides these two parts of Jack is becoming more and more tensioned as he spends more time on the island leading to a more aggressive nature. That influences violent things to happen as the novel progresses.

“Guts Over Fear.” Performance by Sia, YouTube, YouTube, 24 Nov. 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AqnCSdkjQ0. Accessed 3 May 2023.

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Wolf by First Aid Kit is a song that can focus on the change of a person through a physical transformation. The singer asks this person where they went and questions why their physical appearance has changed so much. Trough the fourth chapter of The Lord Of The Flies Jack goes through changes that change how others see him.

"Jack planned his new face. He made one cheek and one eye-socket
white, then he rubbed red over the other half of his face and slashed a
black bar of charcoal across from right ear to left jaw. He looked in the
pool for his reflection, but his breathing troubled the mirror.
“Samneric. Get me a coconut. An empty one.”
He knelt, holding the shell of water. A rounded patch of sunlight fell on
his face and a brightness appeared in the depths of the water. He looked
in astonishment, no longer at himself but at an awesome stranger"(Golding pg. 63)

Jack chooses to change his appearance with charcoal and clay found on the island floor. And he does this to try and be more beastlike and to strike fear into the boys so that they have no choice other than to listen to what he has to say. This is partially because Jack feels that Ralph is taking more leadership than him, and thinks that this is wrong and he should be the one in charge. According to the lyrics in the song the wolf father no longer smiles, which can connect to Jack still smiles it is no longer a smile of joy but a smile of terror meant to make others fear him. He has changed into a more primitive person that shows no care for the wellbeing of others once he puts that clay on his face.  This portrays that Jack is becoming something so savage that the people around him do not even know how to react near him with the short temper, and evil that lingers in his soul. The theme is supported by this piece of the boy not only changing mentally but physically into something uncivilized.

“Wolf.” Performance by First Aid Kit, YouTube, YouTube, 19 Sept. 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czj7SyPNRto. Accessed 27 Apr. 2023.

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First Aid Kit - Wolf (Official Music Video)

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System Of A Down's Toxicity connects with Ja k as he turns into a primitive beast in chapter four. As the song starts you hear drums and a guitar that creates a beat that is similar to ones people would dance to on occasion or if they were angry. This is most definitely a connection with this excerpt from Golding's novel:

"He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling. He
capered toward Bill, and the mask was a thing on its own, behind which
Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness."(Golding pg. 64)

At the beginning of this quote Jack is dancing filled with an anger like snarl, showing that he is now more beastlike and bloodthirsty, rather than the advanced species he once was. The dynamic increase in volume that progresses as the song continues is another way that the music connects with this novel. These connections further express all the changes that Jack has gone through to turn him away from the social order that was built on the island. The title is ironic with this part because Jack has become a more toxic version of himself, that has no cares left for the wellbeing of the little boys on the island. Even though he feels as if he has freed himself from all the shame and self-consciousness, he has only separated himself from the humiliation of not being picked as the leader of the boys. With his uncivilized change a new unwanted disorder disrupts Ralph and Piggy's plans of rescue from the island. And instead of planning on how to leave the boys are more worried about hunting a beast and food.
The anger that the mask has made Jack adopt has caused many rifts against the civilization that the boys created on the island. Leaving little left as it once was, and more like a home for a pack of animals.

“Toxicity.” Performance by System of A Down, YouTube, YouTube, 2 Oct. 2009, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iywaBOMvYLI. Accessed 28 Apr. 2023.

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System Of A Down - Toxicity (Official HD Video)

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Power by Kanye West is a song that describes both sides of how the civilization has been divided. Even though they established a hierarchy based of off the conch shell, rather than positions in the group. They did create a leader position that was given to Ralph through a vote. Golding did mention a divide within the fourth chapter of his novel.
"Ralph asserted his chieftainship and could not have chosen a better way
if he had thought for days. Against this weapon, so indefinable and so
effective, Jack was powerless and raged without knowing why. By the
time the pile was built, they were on different sides of a high barrier.
When they had dealt with the fire another crisis arose. Jack had no
means of lighting it. Then to his surprise, Ralph went to Piggy and took
the glasses from him. Not even Ralph knew how a link between him and
Jack had been snapped and fastened elsewhere.
“I’ll bring ’em back.”
“I’ll come too.”
Piggy stood behind him, islanded in a sea of meaningless color, while
Ralph knelt and focused the glossy spot. Instantly the fire was alight,
Piggy held out his hands and grabbed the glasses back."(Golding pg. 73)
Through this portion of the novel Ralph gains a feeling of accomplishment for he gained enough power to silence Jack's opposition to his ideas. And without a fight the boys follow what Jack has decided without much hesitation. Within the song the singer says that no one man should have this much power shows Jacks side of the order because he thinks that there should be power within him and not with anyone else. His anger rises and as that happens he willingly surrenders his soul to the savage that lies within. But Ralph is dripping with achievement and a feeling of accomplishment for he has gotten the upper hand over all the other boys that are present on the island. And because of this Ralph made a bond with Piggy that no one else thought would happen. But when this bond forms Jack is no longer happy because he wanted to turn everyone against Piggy (intelligence) so that there can be no greater hierarchy and more of a survivalist group. The only way to prove that Ralph has the power is being able to command the group or lead them as a true chief should without them having the means or ability to truly challenge what they have said. This is the point where Ralph has started to slightly lose the cool and collected maturity that he has used to lead the civilization that they have created. But Jack is just pushed further over the edge to try and absorb the pleasure of loosing himself to the savage beast that is within his soul.

“Power.” Performance by Kanye West, YouTube, YouTube, 5 Aug. 2010, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L53gjP-TtGE. Accessed 27 Apr. 2023.

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Jack is the driving force behind the diminution of civilization as the novel progresses, his descent really started when he first decided that he would kill the pig, and it all went downhill from there.  Golding wanted to show the transformation of the group within the portion of his novel, and it starts when Jack slowly starts to detach himself from the group to become his own leader of the older boys. In chapter eight he writes:

"The leaves were roaring like the sea.

“Ralph, wake up!”

“What’s the matter?”

“We saw—”

“—the beast—”

“—plain!”

“Who are you? The twins?”

“We saw the beast—” “Quiet. Piggy!”

The leaves were roaring still. Piggy bumped into him and a twin

grabbed him as he made for the oblong of paling stars.

“You can’t go out—it’s horrible!”

“Piggy—where are the spears?”

“I can hear the—”

“Quiet then. Lie still.”

They lay there listening, at first with doubt but then with terror to

the description the twins breathed at them between bouts of extreme

silence." (Golding pg. 140)

This Rock song has some strong connections to The Lord Of The Flies novel. This is because the boys are in terror due to the fact that they saw the beast while trying to inform Ralph of what they have found. Even though the beast is actually within all the boys they do not believe this, they think that it is a physical being that is trying to destroy them. My expert, Mrs. Bain mentions, " When Sam'nEric comes back in terror reporting about the beast in the forest, the beast in the camp is waking up, because Jack wants to go hunting. When the other boys in the camp start having a discussion using the conch as a way to have the right to speak, Jack becomes furious when Ralph enforces the rule on him after his outburst against it, without it. The fire of resentment is burning in him, even though he hasn't completely broken away yet." This advice helped open my mind to what the connections are to the lyrics, which is very simple. The lyrics "I can feel the calling again

The primal need is filling me

Changes are about to begin

And now my blood is boiling '' connect to what my expert mentioned because Jack keeps being called by the beast to act more on his instincts rather than on his thoughts. And he feeds off of the fear of the boys around him rather than trying to help them overcome it. The terror in the boys is also mentioned because they believe it is another physical being calling out to them, but it is within their subconscious self.  All the boys can truly feel the fear rising all around them and in front of them which is mentioned in the song as something that they all can see. And the actions of some of the boys is most definitely beast-like which is what is causing a lot of problems for the group as a whole.

This connection with Jack and the beast that has almost completely taken over his mind shows why Jack is the leading cause for the loss of their self made civilization.

“The Animal.” Performance by Disturbed, YouTube, YouTube, 17 Nov. 2010, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwxUgefMStM. Accessed 3 May 2023.

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Disturbed - The Animal [Official Music Video]

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Chicago, Illinois metal band Disturbed has successful mixed aggressive riffs and vocals with a melodic approach to form a winning formula that has earned the band a large following. Disturbed has sold over 10 million albums worldwide and was nominated for a Grammy Award for "Inside The Fire," from their 2008 album Indestructible.

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Animal by AURORA is a newer French indie song that connects with this extreme animalistic pleasure that all the boys go through during this part of Golding's novel.
"Roger ran round the heap, prodding with his
spear whenever pigflesh appeared. Jack was on top of the sow, stabbing
downward with his knife. Roger found a lodgment for his point and
began to push till he was leaning with his whole weight. The spear moved
forward inch by inch and the terrified squealing became a highpitched
scream. Then Jack found the throat and the hot blood spouted over his
hands. The sow collapsed under them and they were heavy and fulfilled
upon her. The butterflies still danced, preoccupied in the center of the
clearing.
At last the immediacy of the kill subsided." (Golding pg.194)

These two pieces of literary art are chained together through the pleasure of the hunting and killing. In the song the girl is mentioning a person hunting for love and killing for pleasure.
Though within the Lord Of The Flies text Jack feels this same need within himself but in a more violent way of taking these actions in a literal sense. Golding wrote this part of the text for an important reason, and that reason is to show that even though they have been separated from society they still feel the need to have the chance at feeling some sort of pleasure. And the only way the boys can find that fulfillment of lust is by killing the sow in a way that can be seen as a push for intimate desires that they may or may not truly understand. The singer also mentions becoming a stranger and being lost in a concrete jungle. Whereas all the boys are literally lost in a jungle on an island that they cannot leave on their own for they need a vessel to leave.  So, as AURORA sings she is creating a picture in the listeners minds that is really similar to the plot going on at this point in Golding's novel. The boys have changed so much that they have now become strangers to their real and internal selves. They hunt for animals to survive, which is also mentioned in the song's lyrics. The boys themselves have turned into a savage and animalistic being that resembles what they have been fearing the whole time, a beast. Though they originally did not want to be an animal they now desire to be one and have all the freedom and fun they can in the jungle they are stuck in. Here is one of the most major impacts Jack has made that leads to the destruction of their social order on the island and one of the last moments of innocence within all of the boys.

“Animal.” Performance by AURORA, YouTube, YouTube, 24 Jan. 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DIT8Y3LC6M. Accessed 3 May 2023.

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Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, B. 178 "From the New World" 1893

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Dvořák is the perfect song when we describe who the Chief or Jack has become. There are no words or lyrics in this song which makes it a good background track to what you can imagine as you read it. So the instrumental sounds are the only way we can connect this piece to the novel. This excerpt from chapter ten introduces the chief in his new tribe of savages.

"The chief was sitting there, naked to the waist, his face blocked out
in white and red. The tribe lay in a semicircle before him. The newly
beaten and untied Wilfred was sniffing noisily in the background. Roger
squatted with the rest.
“Tomorrow,” went on the chief, “we shall hunt again.”" (Golding pg.160)

During the start of the song there are notes that are played creating a warning types of sound that almost instills a type of worry or fear within a body. This is a foreshadowing of what the characters may feel later on in the novel. The alternating parts where the song speeds up or slows down can show how the boys listen to his every command out of fear of what he will do to them if they disobey the Chief. Jack speaking is the loud and fast parts of the song but the slower softer parts are the boys doing what they were told by their leader. Especially when they mention that they will go on a hunt the next day which makes all the boys happy to get to do something that brings them so much joy. They hurry to follow orders because they fear what will happen if they are punished for not completing the tasks they were given. Here the savagery has completely consumed Jack to the point where he uses violence to get what he wants as a leader, rather than leading them through trust.

“Dvorak.” YouTube, YouTube, 22 July 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyCYvoOEBbw. Accessed 3 May 2023.

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Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, B. 178 "From the New World": IV. Allegro con fuoco

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Here Ralph, Piggy, and a few others are the only ones left that we would call civilized. All of the other boys have turned into savage beings intent on causing havoc and death on the island. Though even when things aren't going as planned they still wish to go back to their civil lives out in the real world.

"Certainly one
was to send up a beckoning column of smoke; but the other was to be
a hearth now and a comfort until they slept. Eric breathed on the wood
till it glowed and sent out a little flame. A billow of white and yellow
smoke reeked up. Piggy took back his glasses and looked at the smoke
with pleasure.
“If only we could make a radio!”
“Or a plane—”
“—or a boat.”
Ralph dredged in his fading knowledge of the world.
“We might get taken prisoner by the Reds.”
Eric pushed back his hair.
“They’d be better than—”
He would not name people and Sam finished the sentence for him by
nodding along the beach." (Golding pg. 162)

Animal is a song that starts out most definitely hopeful and longing for something which connects to the boy's inner want to be back in civilization.  They are always running to keep the fire running, or hunting, or trying to get the attention of a passing ship. They bend over backwards to try and get off of the island so that they can return back to their homes. But they are slipping of off the pedestal we call civilization. They have become more animal like and gained some more primal tendencies than they had once had. So they can continue to wish for things though reality is taking them in a different direction. Like they are being pushed to hide away from the prying eyes of humanity like the songs lyrics show repeatedly through this piece. The current life they are living is not the one that they had wanted but they are rolling with what the world has given them. So the joyful  tone that is expressed through the song is portrayed as a determination to keep going and be saved by the people who should come to the island at some point in the future they hope.

“Animals.” Performance by Miike Snow, YouTube, YouTube, 8 Dec. 2009, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kpldj3ryuc. Accessed 3 May 2023.

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Carrie Underwood - Before He Cheats 2005

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Golding has a way of portraying the growing savagery within Jack in a manner of violence and evil. Through this Jack goes and attacks Ralph's tribe in the night without any past actions causing this retaliation.
"Then there was a vicious snarling in the mouth of the shelter and the
plunge and thump of living things. Someone tripped over Ralph and
Piggy’s corner became a complication of snarls and crashes and flying
limbs. Ralph hit out; then he and what seemed like a dozen others were
rolling over and over, hitting, biting, scratching. He was torn and jolted,
found fingers in his mouth and bit them. A fist withdrew and came back
like a piston, so that the whole shelter exploded into light." (Golding pg. 167)

This Carrie Underwood song can be used to reflect the anger that Jack is feeling as he goes to fight against Ralph. Just like how the singer reflects carving the seats, slashing the tires, and trying to make the other person think twice about what they did. Jack turns to punching, kicking, and trying to make the rest of the boys join him or think before they come to go against him again. He wants them to know that they really need to think things through before the rest of the boys that are left go and try to join Jack's group. The loud background music can also be used to show that anger felt by the singer, and Jack in their own respective areas and ways. Jack and Ralph are going through a toxic breakup that leaves Jack in extreme anger and Ralph just on the side. Jack believes that Ralph is plotting against him when in reality the savage beast inside him is causing all the problems on the island. His instinctual acts of aggression lead to violence and misunderstanding between the two groups that end with both sides getting hurt. In the end Jack's group leaves without killing anyone, but they stole things from each of the boys, specifically Piggy. This is how both these literary pieces can connect to the theme of civilization being diminished.

Underwood, Carrie. Before He Cheats. YouTube, YouTube, 2 Oct. 2009, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaSy8yy-mr8. Accessed 3 May 2023.

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Carrie Underwood - Before He Cheats (Official Video)

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I would like to finalize my music selections for The Lord Of The Flies with a piece by Litvinovsky. This heavy classical piece brings a wrap to the novel in the sense that the savage (Jack) has gone against the last piece of civil order on the island (Ralph). They have officially turned against one another, though the ones who stuck with Ralph were taken or murdered. On the run Ralph gives up on the order he wanted, and turns into an animal focused on survival at all costs. Trying to think like Piggy would want him too. This excerpt is from chapter twelve of Golding's novel The Lord Of The Flies.

"Don’t scream.
You’ll get back.
Now he’s seen you. He’s making sure. A stick sharpened.
Ralph screamed, a scream of fright and anger and desperation. His
legs straightened, the screams became continuous and foaming. He shot
forward, burst the thicket, was in the open, screaming, snarling, bloody.
He swung the stake and the savage tumbled over; but there were others
coming toward him, crying out. He swerved as a spear flew past and then
was silent, running. All at once the lights flickering ahead of him merged
together, the roar of the forest rose to thunder and a tall bush directly
in his path burst into a great fan-shaped flame. He swung to the right,
running desperately fast," (Golding 199)

This piece of music has a rushed and anxious pace that represents the adrenaline roaming through Ralph's body as he runs. He is pushing to save his own life and last the longest that he can. When Golding writes "rose to thunder and a tall bush", the songs loud and abrupt changes in dynamics correspond. Ralph has turned away from thoughts and intellectual ideas and moved more into his fight or flight response that shows even he can submit to the beast's calling from within. This is where all civilization on the island has been forgotten and diminished, and so the theme has been officially met. As both Ralph and Jack are running, both want to survive but in different ways. Ralph is trying to save himself from the wrath of Jack. While Jack is trying to get rid of Ralph once and for all. Though they both live in the end they lose the innocence of living a civil life, and they will never be able to completely distance themselves from the beasts growing within them from the time on this island. But will the beast consume them all, or will they fight to the end?

Litvinovsky. Le Grand Cahier: X. L'incendie. YouTube, YouTube, 18 Nov. 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3QrLGWOjOE. Accessed 3 May 2023.

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Pavel Lyubomudrov, Metamorphose String Orchestra, Mikael Samsonov - Topic