Lord of the Flies by Maranda Mynatt https://padlet.com/marandamynatt/pdm0m85y8okl A podcast dedicated to expressing how Golding shows how chaos can develop out of human nature in unknown circumstances. en-us 2019-01-30 18:10:08 UTC 2019-03-08 02:09:45 UTC hello@padlet.com Chapter 1-Holloway marandamynatt https://padlet.com/marandamynatt/pdm0m85y8okl/wish/326561546 Focus:  Ralph and Piggy
Title: "Beached"
Purpose: Establishing leadership and roles in the group
Talking points: Conch, Piggy's name, Ralph betraying trust (What will that lead to?)
-Ralph asserts himself from the start; not caring about Piggy's name and then calling him as such. This is indicative of later situations in which "lesser" people will be put down for the gains of the higher-ups.
-Ralph sees Jack as a lesser and treats him as such despite Jack's current command over the choir boys. Probably going to create a lovely power feud if you ask me.
-Piggy was the brain behind the conch idea, Ralph took the credit by not giving any to Piggy.
-The entire group follows Ralph, and disregards Piggy entirely, which is setting them all up for disaster. Good job for shunning the voice of reason. ]]> 2019-02-01 03:55:51 UTC https://padlet.com/marandamynatt/pdm0m85y8okl/wish/326561546 Chapter 2-Holloway marandamynatt https://padlet.com/marandamynatt/pdm0m85y8okl/wish/326562181 Focus: Ralph's title of leadership, Jack's pig, the election
Title: "Beckoning"
Purpose: The dangers of objectification and disregarding the few
Talking points: Piggy's glasses, conch rights, survival vs rescue
-Ralph's leading is only because he possessed the conch, starting a theme of objects being more important than people
-The conch /is/ speech. the blatant objectivity it upon us
-The group vehemently believes that they will be rescued, everyone except Piggy that is (cough cough a nuclear bomb went off). They continue to concern themselves with what are more or less delusions or obsessions
-Ralph takes Piggy's glasses for a fire. Fire is necessary for warmth and cooking, but this is to make a signal fire. To signal a ship. From a tiny little island. In the middle of an ocean. Ralph refuses to see the reality of the situation, and is hellbent on being found.
-Piggy is connected to his glasses right now, but they only want his glasses, not the human behind them
-Group>personal, unless your name is Ralph, then you are the most important
-Back to the leadership election, Jack lost, but was given his own small group of choir boys to command as a hunting party. It is plausible that because of this allowance that Jack might in fact later rise up against Ralph]]> 2019-02-01 04:01:05 UTC https://padlet.com/marandamynatt/pdm0m85y8okl/wish/326562181 Chapter 3 - Maranda ponciano8002 https://padlet.com/marandamynatt/pdm0m85y8okl/wish/328933162 Focus:Jack's obsession with the pig
Title: "The Wild Animals"
Purpose: Showing the unraveling of the order over the group of boys
Talking Points:  Jack following pig droppings,  Ralph and Jack's continued arguing (what will this build up to?).
- Simon insists that because of the beast, it's not a good island (but didn't Ralph say it was a good island like twice now??)]]> 2019-02-07 19:21:30 UTC https://padlet.com/marandamynatt/pdm0m85y8okl/wish/328933162 Chapter 4 - Maranda marandamynatt https://padlet.com/marandamynatt/pdm0m85y8okl/wish/329459567 Focus:The way the groups have divided (what effect will this have?), is there still order?
Title: "Divided"
Purpose: To express the decreasing order and increased chaos.
Talking points:The wild dance the boys have, Rodger throwing rocks at Henry (the only reason he doesn't actually hit him with the rocks is because of the "order" they have).
- What is the importance of the nudity?  It's mentioned quite a lot
- Jack finally apologizes
Why is the hunting song so gruesome?]]> 2019-02-09 06:11:38 UTC https://padlet.com/marandamynatt/pdm0m85y8okl/wish/329459567 Chapter 5-Holloway blazingfire447 https://padlet.com/marandamynatt/pdm0m85y8okl/wish/330044684 Focus: The dispersal of the fractured group.
Title: The Monster We Have Become
Purpose: To explain the disarray of the three splinter groups (the kids, the hunters, and the grey area)
Talking Points:
-The rules are finally starting to completely fall apart
-If Ralph blew the conch and no one came, then what would there be left?
-"Pig", "We eat pig." they are the monster they fear. Jack is the physical embodiment of that monster.
-Simon has taken up the role of perceptive intelligence for now, as he understands why they believe a beast to exist. 
-The full on splintering of Jack into his own group is almost done; he left against Ralph's order, and others followed him. No one is in charge of the whole anymore.]]> 2019-02-11 19:06:57 UTC https://padlet.com/marandamynatt/pdm0m85y8okl/wish/330044684 Chapter 6-Holloway blazingfire447 https://padlet.com/marandamynatt/pdm0m85y8okl/wish/330050687 Focus: There is no flesh and blood beast
Title: The Hunt
Purpose: Part 3 of splintering factions
Talking Points:
-No one talked about the dead soldier. There are adults above the island, fighting, and no one seems to care.
-Every single big kid is gone, aside from Piggy, who is tending to the little kids. What is going on during this time; they let the signal fire go out
-Jack has priorities, and the kids are not one of them. He could care less if they died, and Ralph has nothing to really say on it, cementing that there are 3 groups.
-The hunt is uneventful: all they know is that the signal fire went out, and now they have to go back to find out why.]]> 2019-02-11 19:16:35 UTC https://padlet.com/marandamynatt/pdm0m85y8okl/wish/330050687 Chapter 7-Holloway blazingfire447 https://padlet.com/marandamynatt/pdm0m85y8okl/wish/330957448 Focus: The obvious threat of the dance, Ralph' s participation in the hunt
Title: Game
Purpose: Growing tensions/primal instincts
Talking Points:
-Simon "You'll get back alright." What does that even mean?
-Ralph joins the hunting part for tonight, and throws a spear at a boar. He feels the pride in having hit the boar, in hunting and hurting. Is it possible that Ralph could become like Jack's boys?
-The "play." An absolutely terrifying event. This is almost like them seeing humans as viable prey.
-Ralph, Jack, and Roger walk upon the dead soldier; all of them see it there, and when the wind picks up the head they run and scream in fear. Ahead knowledge, but this directly leads to why they murdered Simon. The "beast" is real; they all saw it.]]> 2019-02-13 18:14:56 UTC https://padlet.com/marandamynatt/pdm0m85y8okl/wish/330957448 Chapter 8-Holloway blazingfire447 https://padlet.com/marandamynatt/pdm0m85y8okl/wish/330957515 Focus: The severed pig head, Simon's realization, Jack's storming off
Title: The Offering
Purpose: To give way to series of horrific events
Talking Points:
-They told Piggy about the beast on the mountain (Get ready for some murder soon)
-Jack left, but now has no fire. Jack is nowhere above any means of getting the glasses, and might kill Piggy for them
-Jack kills the sow. the graphic details are meant to describe the savagery the boys have sunk to. It was nursing piglets, and they rammed a spear up where the sun doesn't shine. These are not boys anymore. Savage psychopaths.
-Simon watched and approaches the pig head. He starts to think that the head, Lord of the Flies now due to the pile of fly-covered cuts on the ground, is talking to him. Basically, the head is saying that Simon is going to be murdered, and that everyone will be responsible. 
-"The Chief has spoken." Two leaders now, mostly on Jack's side. Ralph really only has Piggy now, since the left of them left because Jack had the food. Likely to be singled out, or even killed now.]]> 2019-02-13 18:15:02 UTC https://padlet.com/marandamynatt/pdm0m85y8okl/wish/330957515 Chapter 9 - Maranda marandamynatt https://padlet.com/marandamynatt/pdm0m85y8okl/wish/332405186 Focus: Ralphs loss of power, the finding of the beast, Jacks need to be the leader, the reenactment of the killing of the pig.
Title: Painted with Blood
Purpose: To show the effects vulnerability can have on power
Talking points:
- Why did Jack not tell the group what the beast really was?
- Why did they react so violently towards Simon when he reappeared? Do they have any remorse?
- The mood the author created with they chanting, killing, and ominous thunderstorm all going on at the same time.]]> 2019-02-18 17:23:24 UTC https://padlet.com/marandamynatt/pdm0m85y8okl/wish/332405186 Chapter 10 - Maranda marandamynatt https://padlet.com/marandamynatt/pdm0m85y8okl/wish/332407801 Focus:  The denial after the killing, Jack beating on innocent boys, Ralph and Piggy being attacked in their shelter -- who did it?
Title: Denial in Loss
Purpose: To discuss the loss of responsibility, power, and order throughout the boys.
Talking Points:
- All of the boys denying that they were part of Simons death
- Jack being the real chief
- Jack claiming that the beast came disguised -- was he just ashamed of his actions yet trying to cover it up?
- The attack on Ralph and Piggy
]]> 2019-02-18 17:34:38 UTC https://padlet.com/marandamynatt/pdm0m85y8okl/wish/332407801 Chapter 11- Maranda blazingfire447 https://padlet.com/marandamynatt/pdm0m85y8okl/wish/332411510 Focus: The symbol of Piggy’s glasses, Jack’s violent ways, the importance of the sea.
Title: The Sea of Dead Pigs
Purpose: To go over the way Jack feels he has to go about gaining power.
Talking points:
- Piggy’s death — why does everyone that dies end up in the ocean?
- Piggy’s body twitches “like a pig’s after it has been killed.”
- The shattering of the conch — does this symbolize the loss of order throughout the group?
- Jack forcing the boys to tie up Sam and Eric.]]> 2019-02-18 17:49:17 UTC https://padlet.com/marandamynatt/pdm0m85y8okl/wish/332411510 Chapter 12- Maranda blazingfire447 https://padlet.com/marandamynatt/pdm0m85y8okl/wish/332411861 Focus: The irony in the boys being found by the officer.
Title:  Fire meets Fire
Purpose: To discuss the complete loss of order and utopia on the island and how it resembles the war going on in the real world.
Talking Points:
- Ralph having to hide from the boys — how did he go from being the leader to being the last boy fighting for his life?
- Why did Sam and Eric turn into Samneric?
- How did these boys go from utopia to almost killing Ralph and sticking his head on a stick?  Is it all for power?
- The lengths the boys go through to kill Ralph — setting the whole forest on fire? Really?
- Ralph thinking he’s about to die and then opening his eyes to a naval officer — everyone take a deep breath. It’s been intense.
- The smoke from the fire caught the officer’s attention (now you see the signal smoke?? Really?!)
- The irony in how the officer was involved in an equally violent war ad what the boys were stuck in. Sounds like nobody has any room to talk here.]]> 2019-02-18 17:50:36 UTC https://padlet.com/marandamynatt/pdm0m85y8okl/wish/332411861