Lord of the Flies Song wall by Rachel Mandzyuk https://padlet.com/090126/zweqncdyjo4u Songs that relate to each chapter in the book. en-us 2018-11-05 18:10:07 UTC 2025-03-01 02:13:47 UTC hello@padlet.com Chapter 1 090126 https://padlet.com/090126/zweqncdyjo4u/wish/300634872 Message in the Bottle by The Police

The first chapter of Lord of the Flies begins with the plane crash of several young boys ranging from possibly five or six to mid-teens. Within moments, a couple of the older boys, Ralph and Piggy, realize that they are lost on an island without any grownups. Ralph expresses, “This is an island. At least I think it is an island[...] Perhaps there aren’t any grownups anywhere”(Goulding 8). This can be related to The Police’s song, Message in the Bottle, in the lyric, “Just a castaway, and island lost at sea, another lonely day with no one here but me.”, because the boys are also castaways, trapped on island without an adult. The story goes on with Ralph and Piggy finding a conch that allows them to summon the rest of the boys from the crash to a platform in the jungle. The quote from the book, “Signs of life were visible now on the beach[...]boys were making their way toward the platform through the hot, dumb sand”(Goulding 18), can be related to the lyric in the song,”Seems like I’m not alone, a hundred million castaways looking for a home.”, because although Ralph and Piggy make the connection that there aren’t any adults on the island, they found several other boys that are just like them, looking for a way home. Later in the chapter Ralph is elected leader, as seen in the quote,”’Who wants me?’ Every hand outside the choir except Piggy’s was raised immediately. Then Piggy, too, raised his hand grudgingly into the air”(Goulding 23). As leader he decides that he and the boys must keep a signal fire lit at all times, so a ship passing by would be able to see the smoke. This correlates to the lyric, “I’ll send an SOS to the world.”, because the signal fire is a SOS to be rescued. The fire can also be related to the lyric that says, “Only hope can keep me together”, because everyone must contribute in order to keep the fire lit and and long as there is fire and smoke, there is hope of getting rescued. ]]> 2018-11-05 18:12:41 UTC https://padlet.com/090126/zweqncdyjo4u/wish/300634872 Chapter 2 090126 https://padlet.com/090126/zweqncdyjo4u/wish/300635000 Losing My Religion by R.E.M.

Chapter two begins with Ralph calling a meeting, where a littlun with a mulberry birthmark on his face, gets the conch to express his concerns about the island. As soon as the littlun is given the conch he is immediately laughed at, which causes him to get extremely shy in the face of much older boys, as seen in the quote, “At last Ralph induced him to hold the shell but by then the blow of laughter had taken away the child’s voice”(Goulding 35). Piggy begins to speak for him and says, “He wants to know what you’re going to do about the snake-thing”. Ralph dismisses the little boy’s fear and responds with the reasoning, “You couldn’t have a beastie, a snake-thing, on an island. You only get them in big countries, like Africa, or India”(Goulding 36). However the boy kept insisting that there was in fact a beastie, which the other boys only responded to with laughter. The boys move on to making a fire on top of the mountain by using the glass from piggy’s glasses to ignite it. As the boys are arguing about how to light the fire, they accidentally ignite the side of the mountain in flames. While they are arguing, Piggy recognizes that the boy with the mulberry birthmark is missing and exclaims, “The little ‘un that had a mark on his face-where is-he now? I tell you I don’t see him”(Goulding 46). Ralph replies in shame, “Perhaps he went back to the, the-,”(Goulding 47). Ralph quickly realizes that he, now most likely caught amongst the flames, went to go look for the “beastie”. The lyric, “Oh no, I’ve said too much, I haven’t said enough”, in the song Losing My Religion by R.E.M, expresses how Ralph never addressed the serious fear of the little boy. Instead Ralph immediately dismissed it and laughed at him along with the other boys. This can also be related to the lyric, “Trying to keep up with you and I don’t know if I can do it”, because this is the first sign of Ralph losing his authoritative control as chief.  If Ralph had handled the boy’s concerns more maturely he might have not been compelled to go searching for the snakes to prove they existed. Also, if Ralph had taken control of the situation on top of the mountain, the argument might not have caused the fire to spread across the mountain. ]]> 2018-11-05 18:12:52 UTC https://padlet.com/090126/zweqncdyjo4u/wish/300635000 Chapter 3 090126 https://padlet.com/090126/zweqncdyjo4u/wish/300635055 Hungry Like the Wolf by Duran Duran

Chapter three begins with describing Jack on a hunt to kill a pig. Goulding depicts Jacks movements as very animalistic, as if he transformed into something less than human while hunting for this pig. For example, in the quote, “Then dog-like, uncomfortably on all fours yet unheeding his discomfort, he stole forward five yards and stopped.”(Goulding 48). Jack becomes so consumed with killing this animal, that it seems he becomes an animal himself. As the chapter goes on, the pig eventually evades Jack and he does not end up killing it. Jack returns to the beach to find Ralph stressed because it is just he and Simon trying to build shelters, saying, “They’re hopeless. The older ones aren’t much better you see? All day I’ve been working with Simon. No one else”(Goulding 50). Jack argues the the boys are distracted because they need meat, which is why he was out hunting that afternoon. However, Ralph begins to antagonize Jack because had come back empty-handed yet again and Jack argues, “But I shall! I’ve got to get a barb on this spear! We wounded a pig and the spear fell out. If we could only make barbs-” (Goulding 51). This is very similar to the song Hungry Like the Wolf by Duran Duran. In the song the lyric, “In touch with the ground I’m on the hunt, I’m after you and I’m hungry like the wolf.”, describes the way Jack is hunting in the woods, very low to the ground just like a wolf or animal would be. In addition, the lyric, “I howl, I whine, I’m after you, Mouth is alive with juices like wine,” can be related to Jacks whiny desire to kill a pig for its meat because he claims that the boys need meat. This shows Jack and the other boys are gradually turning into savages and becoming more animalistic.

]]> 2018-11-05 18:12:58 UTC https://padlet.com/090126/zweqncdyjo4u/wish/300635055 Chapter 4 090126 https://padlet.com/090126/zweqncdyjo4u/wish/300635139 Revolution by The Beatles

In chapter four, Ralph and the other boys finally see a ship pass the island. However, Jack and his hunters, occupied by their obsession with killing a pig, let the fire go out so there is no smoke for the ship to see. Goulding expresses, “The fire was dead. They saw that straightaway; saw what they had really known down on the beach when the smoke of home had beckoned. The fire was out, smokeless and dead; the watchers were gone. A pile of unused fuel lay ready”(Goulding 68). When confronted about it, all Jack could talk about was how he killed a pig saying, “We can light the fire again. You should have been with us, Ralph. We had a smashing time,”(Goulding 69) and, “We’ll go hunting every day-”(Goulding 70). Jack keeps pushing his amazing idea of hunting and killing pigs, while Ralph is solely thinking about is the fact that they would have just been rescued if Jack wasn’t off messing around in the woods. This is similar to The Beatles song Revolution because of the lyrics, “But when you talk about destruction, don’t you know you can count me out,” and, “You say you got a real solution, we’d all love to see the plan, you ask me for a contribution, we’re doing all we can.” These correlate to Jack talking about how important it is to be killing the pigs and how everyone should be a part of the hunting. However, Ralph disagrees with this idea and believes that they should be doing everything they can to be rescued, like for example, keeping the fire lit and building the shelters. In addition, the title of the song, Revolution, relates to the reader beginning to see the the division of power between Ralph and Jack and the start of a “Revolution” between their priorities. ]]> 2018-11-05 18:13:04 UTC https://padlet.com/090126/zweqncdyjo4u/wish/300635139 Chapter 5 090126 https://padlet.com/090126/zweqncdyjo4u/wish/300635199 We're All In This Together by High School Musical
            In Chapter 5, Ralph calls an assembly to discuss the problems on the island. Ralph complains that the boys aren’t working together to find solutions, “Everybody enjoys speaking and being together. We decide things. But they don't get done. We were going to have water brought from the stream and left in those coconut shells under fresh leaves. So it was, for a few days. Now there's no water. The shells are dry. People drink from the river" (Goulding 79). Here Ralph tells them that they all like gathering together and pointing out the wrongs on the island but no one works together to solve them. This corresponds with We’re All In This Together ‘s lyrics. The lines, “ We’re all in this together and it shows, when we stand hand in hand it makes our dreams come true.” The characters sing that it helps when they work together it makes their dreams come true. Ralph also wants the boys to work together so that they can fix the problems and have a good time while awaiting their rescue.          ]]> 2018-11-05 18:13:10 UTC https://padlet.com/090126/zweqncdyjo4u/wish/300635199 Chapter 6 090126 https://padlet.com/090126/zweqncdyjo4u/wish/300635376 Hallucinations by dsvn
           
In Chapter 6 Sam and Eric see the dead parachutist and mistaken it for the beast. They don’t really know what it was but since they were fearful of the unknown, they wrongly concluded it to be the beast. "We've seen the beast with our own eyes. No--we weren't asleep--"( Goulding 100). Here we see the twins saying that they’ve supposedly seen the beast. Sam and Eric also go on to describe the beast stating, "It was furry. There was something moving behind its head--wings. The beast moved too--" ( Golding 100) . Lastly a small piece on SImon’s perspective of the beast shows him thinking of what the beast looks like. “Simon, walking in front of Ralph, felt a flicker of incredulity--a beast with claws that scratched, that sat on a mountain-top, that left no tracks and yet was not fast enough to catch Samneric. However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick”. (Golding 103) Hallucinations captures this perfectly as the words in the song talk about seeing things when they’re not really there. “Is it my imagination, I think I’m  losing my mind. Still see your face all the time.” The lyrics correlate with the story because Hallucinations talks about seeing something when its not really there, much like when the boys saw the beast when it really wasn’t. It was their imagination blending the puzzle together, which is also stated in the song.


]]> 2018-11-05 18:13:23 UTC https://padlet.com/090126/zweqncdyjo4u/wish/300635376 Chapter 7 090126 https://padlet.com/090126/zweqncdyjo4u/wish/300636119 Hunting High and Low by a-ha
      
In Chapter 7 Ralph takes a taste of hunting with Jack, Simon, and Robert. “With the boar only five yards away, he flung the foolish wooden stick that he carried, saw it hit the great snout and hang there for a moment. The boar's note changed to a squeal and it swerved aside into the covert” (Golding 113).This explains how Ralph begins hunting. He later feels a sense of pride and a new likeness in hunting. Another quote explains how committed Jack was to hunting, “ The ground was turned over near the pig-run and there were droppings that steamed. Jack bent down to them as though he loved them”. (Golding 111).  The song chosen contains these lyrics, “ There's no end to the lengths I'll go to
Hunting high and low.” I feel that these lyrics match up well with this chapter because it says that there’s no limit to how you’ll hunt and Jack has gotten a little over the edge with his job as a hunter. Ralph is also getting a glimpse of the hunting lifestyle. Hunting high and low is basically what they’re doing.


]]> 2018-11-05 18:14:31 UTC https://padlet.com/090126/zweqncdyjo4u/wish/300636119 Chapter 8 090126 https://padlet.com/090126/zweqncdyjo4u/wish/300636225 The Beast In Me by Mark Lanegan
     
In Chapter 8 Simon goes into a hallucinating phase and encounters the Lord of the Flies. The song The Beast In Inside Me perfectly captures Simon experience with the pig.  "You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you”. (Golding 143).  This is the part where the pig tells Simon that he is indeed the Lord of the Flies. "What are you doing out here all alone? Aren't you afraid of me?" Simon shook. "There isn't anyone to help you. Only me. And I'm the Beast". (Golding 143) This quote also shows how the beast is terrifying to Simon. He has realized that the beast is in him and he is speechless in the presence of the creature. A lyric that goes well with this part of the story is, “And that is when I must beware of the beast in me that everybody knows they've seen him out dressed in my clothes”. This shows SImon’s point of view in a song. He explains how the beast inside him is dressed in his clothes, meaning that the beast is Simon and SImon is the beast.]]> 2018-11-05 18:14:41 UTC https://padlet.com/090126/zweqncdyjo4u/wish/300636225 Chapter 10 090126 https://padlet.com/090126/zweqncdyjo4u/wish/300636397 Keep the Fire Burning  by REO Speedwagon

In Chapter 10, Ralph and Piggy wake up with bruises and realize what had happened that night.  Ralph felt bad that Simon was killed, while Piggy tries to make it seem like it was an accident and he had nothing to do with it. Meanwhile at Castle Rock, Jack’s tribe returned and he punishes all the boys for their actions. He ties Wilfred up and he tells the tribe that Ralph and the few boys left with him are a danger. He believes that Simon was really the beast, but they should still hunt for the beast because the beast isn’t truly dead. They made a plan to raid Ralph, Piggy, and the few boys, and take Piggy’s glasses so they can have fire. Ralph was still focused on keeping the fire and he knew that they needed to keep the fire for rescue and for safety. A lyric in the songs says, “Keep the fire burnin’, Let it keep us warm, The world will keep on turnin.” This lyric shows that a fire will keep one warm and give you safety. Fire has two meanings for the boys, “...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” (Golding 162). The lyric brings two meanings to fire just like in the book for the boys. Another few lyrics in the song say, “ We can help one another be strong, Let us never lose our yearnin’, To keep the fire burnin’ all night long.” This lyric supports the idea of everyone needs to work together to keep the fire going not only for their rescue, but for their sense of security at night and from danger. Sam and Eric were forgetting the meaning of the fire and they were whining saying things like, “ I am too tired. And what’s the good” (Golding 163)? They were forgetting what they really needed and Piggy and Ralph were there to reassure them. They helped one another, which is supported by a lyric in the song. Later that night, they are talking about how they fear the dark and Ralph says, “If we don’t get home soon we’ll be barmy” ( Golding 165). Just like in the lyrics in the song, they don’t want to forget what they know and become crazy. They need each other for support and they need the fire to help them get off the island. The fire symbolizes rescue for the boys and without the fire all hope for their rescue is gone.]]> 2018-11-05 18:14:57 UTC https://padlet.com/090126/zweqncdyjo4u/wish/300636397 Chapter 11 090126 https://padlet.com/090126/zweqncdyjo4u/wish/300636440 Be Prepared by Jeremy Irons, Whoopi Goldberg, Cheesh Marin & Jin Cummings

In this chapter, Ralph and Piggy try to get the fire starting again on the beach, but they can’t light it without Piggy’s glasses. The small group of boys who are still left with them go up to Castle Rock to get them back from Jack. On their way, they run into Jack’s tribe, who were hunting, and they demand Piggy’s glasses back. Jack starts attacking Ralph and demands that they leave, but Piggy tries to speak and ends up getting in the way. Roger shoves a boulder that lands on him, killing him. Jack then wants to kill Ralph and be the rightful leader, sending Ralph running to the forest for dear life. In the song Be Prepared, Scar says, “ I will be king!... Stick with me, and you’ll never go hungry again!”  Scar is just like Jack’s character because they both want to be the only leader and they create their own group that will do what they say. Jack proves this when he says, “See? They do what I want (Golding 179).” Jack recruited all of the boys because he showed them instant results that they were looking for, compared to Ralph who didn’t show any at the time they wanted them. The song also says, “ For the death of the king…. No, fool-- we’re going to kill him.” Scar wants to kill his brother so he can officially be named King and rule over every lion and animal in the movie. After Roger kills Piggy with the boulder, Jack screamed to Ralph in front of the tribe, “See? See? That’s what you’ll get! I meant that! There isn’t a tribe for you anymore! The conch is gone” (Golding 181). Now that Piggy is dead and the conch is destroyed, there is nothing/ no one left to support Ralph as the leader anymore. The conch symbolizes order and unity, but now that it is shattered into many pieces and all hope is lost for the boys on the island.  All is done for Ralph when Jack stomps in his face saying “ I’m chief (Golding 181)!” and he throws a spear at Ralph. All Jack wants to do now is kill Ralph and become the only leader, just like Scar does in the movie.  The song and chapter 11 go hand in hand, both demonstrating the strive to want all power and the will to kill the person in your way. ]]> 2018-11-05 18:15:01 UTC https://padlet.com/090126/zweqncdyjo4u/wish/300636440 Chapter 12 090126 https://padlet.com/090126/zweqncdyjo4u/wish/300636505 Run Boy Run by Woodkid
 
In this Chapter, Ralph is running away from Jack’s group. Jack is trying to completely take charge and the only way to take complete control is to kill the only thing stopping him, Ralph. Ralph is trying to hide in the forest and he is constantly on edge, worrying about the other boys hunting him down. The song, Run Boy Run by Woodkid supports this chapter because the lyrics, “ Run boy run! The sun will be guiding you, Run boy run! They’re trying to catch you, Run boy run! Running is a victory”. These lyrics connect to the book because it relates to  Ralph running and hiding in the forest, trying to keep himself safe from the boys. He fears the awakening sun because in the daylight it is easier for the boys to find him. The night time is his time to sneak out of his hiding place and make his way down the mountain. This is supported by the book when the sun is going down and “At last Ralph wormed out of the ferns and sneaked forward to the edge of that impenetrable thicket that fronted the neck of land” (Golding 181). With no one on his side, the only thing he has left to do is run. In the book, Golding says, “ These Savages would go further and further. Then there was that indefinable connection between himself and Jack; who therefore would never let him alone; never” (Golding 184). The boys, now turned into savages, no longer know what is right or wrong. Jack basically brainwashed all the boys into thinking Ralph is their enemy and they must kill him. The song supports this idea when it writes, “You’ll be a man, boy! But for now it’s time to run, it’s time to run!” All the boys have turned savage, while Ralph is the only one who truly acts like a real man. All the boys are completely savage and just sit “…round the gutted pig, watching the fat ooze and burn among the ashes”(Golding 184), in complete content. Their wall of what is right and wrong has been completely torn down. 
]]> 2018-11-05 18:15:08 UTC https://padlet.com/090126/zweqncdyjo4u/wish/300636505 Chapter 9 090126 https://padlet.com/090126/zweqncdyjo4u/wish/300638840 Savage by Whethan

In Chapter 9, Simon woke up after he had experienced the Lord of the Flies and he finds what they thought was the beast to just be a lifeless man. He goes down to the beach to let all the other boys know what he has discovered. While he is on his way back, Jack’s tribe had come down to enjoy a feast and roast a pig at the fire. Jack acts like he is the King and commands the boys in his tribe to do things, as servants would do. They sit there goofing off and they suddenly see a figure appear near their fire. They all think it is the beast, so they start attacking it and killing it viciously. They end up killing it and later on realize they had killed Simon. Their wild behavior caused them to go crazy and kill Simon. The song Savage by Whethan, talks about a girl making him become savage, similar to the idea of killing the beast which turns the boys savage. This is supported in the song when it says, “Well pardon my manners, But something about you turns me to a savage, Savage.” The boys enjoy acting out the action of killing a pig and “The hunters took their spears, the cooks took spits, and the rest clubs of firewood. A circling movement developed and a chant (Golding 151).” The boys are all decked out in their war paint and by this point in the book, all of the boys in the tribe have become obsessed with hunting and killing. A savage is someone/or something with animalistic behaviors becoming dangerous and violent. When they see the creature that they think is the beast they circle around the beast saying their chant, “ Kill the beast! Cut his Throat! Spill his blood! Do him in” (Golding 152)! They don’t even take a chance to really inspect what it is and they let their fear control them. In the song it says, “ Yeah, I’m losing my balance, Got me running into circles around you”, and this is just like when the boys circle around Simon, whom they think is the beast, and start attacking him. All the boys in the tribe fully became savages and “...leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck bite, tore. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws” (Golding 153). Everyone was in on this, even Ralph and Piggy were there watching, supporting it. Their actions were controlled by their feelings, just like in the song. ]]> 2018-11-05 18:18:43 UTC https://padlet.com/090126/zweqncdyjo4u/wish/300638840 Lord of the Flies 090126 https://padlet.com/090126/zweqncdyjo4u/wish/303419158 Album Art]]> 2018-11-12 18:46:28 UTC https://padlet.com/090126/zweqncdyjo4u/wish/303419158