1. Finish prepping interview questions (presentation TOMORROW).
2. Finish GTs by the end of the week (get it out of the way! :) )
3. Wednesday: In the library.
4. Thursday: Begin new novel (Of Mice and Men).
English 11
Lord of the Flies
1. Review last two questions for Chapter 7 (collect for marks).
2. Notes (see picture below) on Chapter 7.
3. Chapter 8 - Read, answer questions.
4. Tomorrow: Quiz on Chapters 6-8
--> Ensure you're familiar with vocabulary words on the board (see picture below).
Important points for questions 10-12 (Chapter 8):
- literally the Lord of the Flies is the pig's head that Jack impaled (however, make note of how brutal this specific kill was).
- Simon is in the early stages of a seizure and imagines the pig's head talking to him, telling him that everything that is happening is bad, that man's nature is evil, and that he should just go rejoin the others.
- It asks why Simon is not afraid... the Lord of the Flies is a tangible (physical) manifestation of the savage instinct (the human beast) that Golding postulates resides within all of us (remember all the atrocities Golding would have witnessed mankind committing during the war).
- Simon is our Christ-figure, the prophet. The "ancient, inescapable recognition" is that evil resides within men (and boys)
- The LOTF reminds Simon it cannot be hunted or killed because it lives within them all. Simon is "unwanted" because he recognizes this evil within himself and does not indulge it like the others do.
- The boys want to have fun (be savage) and if Simon gets in the way, he will be done in, foreshadowing Simon's own demise.
