Media Literacy Essay by Eileen Croxton https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln Lord of the Flies en-us 2018-11-28 16:32:25 UTC 2023-04-06 18:38:14 UTC hello@padlet.com When Jack and his new group are celebrating their rescue against Ralph and the victory of their new fresh kill, they murder who they thought was the beast from the jungle 21eileencroxton https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/308884378 Lead in 4]]> 2018-11-28 16:32:25 UTC https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/308884378 Sam and Eric, and the other small children, greatly fear this unknown beast that has only been seen by others. The reader knows that the dead body isn't able to hurt the boys in any way, but the boys on the island do not have the intelligence to know what the creature is and creates an unneeded fear of a beast. 21eileencroxton https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/308884379 Warrant 3]]> 2018-11-28 16:32:25 UTC https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/308884379 "Here the breeze was fitful and allowed the strings of the parachute to tangle and festoon; and the figure sat, its helmeted head between its knees, held by a complication of lines"(Golding 96). 21eileencroxton https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/308884380 Evidence 3]]> 2018-11-28 16:32:25 UTC https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/308884380 Sam and Eric were left to attend to the fire on top of the mountain when they see a dead parachute corpse, thinking it was the physical form of the beast 21eileencroxton https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/308884381 Lead in 3]]> 2018-11-28 16:32:25 UTC https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/308884381 Simon’s thought is ignored only moments after he says this, but this comment plants a seed in the back of every mind of who or what the beast takes shape of. His observation happens after Jack and his group of hunters kill their first pig and let the fire burn out on top of the mountain, simple crimes that start the decline of civility. Simon’s statement is foreshadowing that the boys are the beast they are making up and scaring themselves with. No one believes Simon, which leads to them becoming animals and savages without a second thought. 21eileencroxton https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/308884382 Warrant 2 ]]> 2018-11-28 16:32:25 UTC https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/308884382 “‘What I mean is…. Maybe it’s only us’”(Golding 89). 21eileencroxton https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/308884383 Evidence 2]]> 2018-11-28 16:32:25 UTC https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/308884383 Simon, the established loner and outcast of the group, expressed his thoughts towards this unknown and unseen being on the island in a large assembly 21eileencroxton https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/308884384 Lead in 2]]> 2018-11-28 16:32:25 UTC https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/308884384 Although the boys could not control what happened with their plane and the crash it created, the plane destroyed a large portion of the island. The plane crushed miles of vegetation, even leaving a permanent mark constantly called “the scar”. 21eileencroxton https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/308884385 Warrant 1]]> 2018-11-28 16:32:25 UTC https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/308884385 “All around him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bash of heat” (Golding 1) 21eileencroxton https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/308884386 Evidence 1]]> 2018-11-28 16:32:25 UTC https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/308884386 The boys steady decline into animals they fear is foreshadowed by the constant destruction of the island. Every destructive action is completed by the group, making them all responsible for the deterioration of their civilization and their society as a whole. The start of the destruction is shown through their arrival to the island by plane crash. 21eileencroxton https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/308884387 Lead in 1]]> 2018-11-28 16:32:25 UTC https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/308884387 In William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies”. The best evolves throughout the novel from a psychological being the boys created in their minds into a realistic fear of themselves. 21eileencroxton https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/308884389 2018-11-28 16:32:25 UTC https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/308884389 “The beast was on its knees in the center, its arms folded over its face. It was crying out against the abominable about a body on a hill… at once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt onto the beast, scream, struck, bit, tore. There were no words and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws”(Golding 152,153). 21eileencroxton https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/309078515 Evidence 4]]> 2018-11-28 22:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/309078515 This act of terror strips the boys of the little humanity they had left in them, and it truly turns them into barbarians. Golfing describes the boys having “teeth” and “claws”, more animal and beast-like traits than human ones. The boys have become the beast they have described and feared, confirming the loss of pureness and innocence with this violent act. 21eileencroxton https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/309078643 Warrant 4]]> 2018-11-28 22:41:28 UTC https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/309078643 After Jack’s tribe viciously murders Simon, Ralph, petrified and scared, discusses with Piggy that the boys are starting to scare him. 21eileencroxton https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/309078711 Lead in 5]]> 2018-11-28 22:41:50 UTC https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/309078711 “‘I’m frightened. Of us’” (Golding 157). 21eileencroxton https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/309078817 Evidence 5]]> 2018-11-28 22:42:22 UTC https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/309078817 Ralph and Piggy make up the few number of boys on the island who haven’t slipped into complete savagery, and they begin to fear themselves because of they actions they saw the others commit. 21eileencroxton https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/309078952 Warrant 5]]> 2018-11-28 22:42:57 UTC https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/309078952 Jack orders a manhunt against Ralph in order to destroy and eliminate any opposing powers that may threaten him. Jack and his tribe smoke out Ralph by lighting the island on fire, chasing him down the beach in attempt to kill him 21eileencroxton https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/309079062 Lead in 6 ]]> 2018-11-28 22:43:22 UTC https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/309079062 "They were all running, crying out out madly. He could hear them crashing in the undergrowth and on the left was the hot, bright thunder" (Golding 199,200). 21eileencroxton https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/309079383 Evidence 6]]> 2018-11-28 22:44:31 UTC https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/309079383 In a chaotic mess, Ralph runs for his life from a pack of children who have lost their humanity and believe that murdering the person they elected to rule them is the only solution. The boys, who carry spears they've carves and painted their bodies in hideous patterns over their bodies, finally became the violent and unexplained beast they've feared since their first assembly. 21eileencroxton https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/309079774 Warrant 6]]> 2018-11-28 22:46:07 UTC https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/309079774 Works Cited 21eileencroxton https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/309384107 Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. New York, Penguin Books, 1954.]]> 2018-11-29 16:21:49 UTC https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/309384107 When a group of boys crash violently on a deserted island in the middle of an unexplained war they lose any sense of civility and humanity. They destroy themselves and the other, becoming more like beasts than boys. 21eileencroxton https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/309388545 Introduction]]> 2018-11-29 16:27:51 UTC https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/309388545 The boys develop slowly into the unknown beast they fear on the island and start to fear themselves. The beast, first introduced in the assembly, greatly scares the boys into the point where they believed a dead corpse is the beast's physical form. However, when the boys murder Simon and lead a manhunt against their leader, they officially become beasts themselves. 21eileencroxton https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/309392930 Conclusion]]> 2018-11-29 16:33:53 UTC https://padlet.com/21eileencroxton/2capoadihlln/wish/309392930