English Assignment 9/30/10

How does Alan Patton characterize the different genders? Is the difference significant? Why or why not?

Alan Patton characterizes men as superior to women. This is a significant difference. He characterizes men more like a cheif. Women are characterized as more of the humble supporters or servants. The men are characterized as having power, working, and belonging in Johannesburg. The women are characterized as weak, and belonging back with the tribes on the homelands.

English Assignment 9/29/10

What did you tab (4) and Why?

I tabbed the large narrative parts, important parts of the plot, words that I didn't know, new characters, and setting.

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English Homework 9/20/10

The theme that I picked was, If you don't speak up, others will try to impose their will upon you. William Golding develops this theme in multiple ways throughout the book. One way that Golding develops this is in the meeting when Piggy disapproves of what Jack wants to go and do. Piggy doesn't say anything at first. He tries to speak up, but it is too late for Jack had already left. Another way that Golding develops this is through the littluns. The littluns go to every meeting. The biguns do not think that the littluns count as a part of the group. The littluns are forced to go along with whatever the group is doing, because they do not speak up against it. This silence causes them to be thought of as people that are "just there". No one seems to truely care if they are safe or not. This is how Willaim Golding develops the theme.

9/13/10

If there had been boys and girls on the island, the author would have had to make some very different decisions. For one, some of the names would have had to been different. Another is that, the author would have had to describe situations from a girl's point of view instead of a boy's only. The author also would have had to change the plot a little because not all girls would do some of the things that the boys do in the book. Not all girls would go hunting or chant in a circle in the rain. There also would have been a different sort of perspective in the book along with another type of intelligence that wasn't in the book. These are some of the different decisions that would have been made.

English Assignment 9/12/10

2. "... searching out safe lodgements for his feet, ..."

The author makes the decision of putting this peice into the first page. The author does this because he is describing Piggy with more than just the physical characteristics. This he does without mentioning his name. He does this so that the audience feels like Piggy is more of a real person rather than just a character.

English Assignment 9/12/10

1. "... a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry; ..."
The author had to make the decision of putting this into the book. This is some of the only color that the reader has seen in the book so far. It also foreshadows how the book will end. The book ends with the whole forest being set a-light. The bird is red and yellow and so is fire. Fire also flashes upward just like the bird.

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