My prediction for the end of Lord of the Flies is that, Jack and his group will over take the remaining boys with Ralph and they will force them to join his group. Ralph will be left alone or killed and the boys won't ever be saved because Jack doesn't understand the importance of the fire.

(i did no have the packet for this blog assignment so i did not know how long you wanted it to be.)
~ Mikayla

I thought Lord of the Flies was a very good book that conveyed many messages. It was hard to understand in certain situations but once you understood the scene then you couldn't stop reading because you wanted to know what would happen so badly. The end was what surprised me the most. I also didn't expect for Piggy or Simon to die, I was most surprised that not 1 but 2 main characters died, that usually doesn't happen in books. My group did okay, we could have done better. I think we could have worked harder and gotten our work done on time. For the most part we did good for being first time partners, only having 2 people, and our communication was good. I wouldn't mind having Abbi as a partner again but i would be more comfortable with someone else probably. She was a good partner and did her work, and helped, and she worked hard.
~Mikayla

In chapter 11 the boys try to light a fire in the cold without Piggy's glasses but it's hopeless. They meet on the beach and decide to go try to talk to Jack. Once they get to Jack's camp there are guards and they throw rocks at Ralph, Piggy, and the twins (Sam and Eric). Then Jack comes out of the woods, sees Ralph and they start fighting. Jack tells Ralph to leave and Ralph refuses to leave without Piggy's glasses. Ralph and Jack start fighting again and Piggy yells at them to stop and understand Ralph's point but Roger pushes a boulder down the mountain side and Ralph hears it falling and lunges out of its path. The boulder hits Piggy, shatters the conch and crushes Piggy. Jack and the boys try killing Ralph but he escapes into the forest and Roger and Jack force the twins (Sam and Eric) to join Jack's tribe.

~ Mikayla

Opinion of the Book

                                                               Opinion of the Book


              I personally think that the book was really confusing. I didn't really understand it, and i kept forgettin everything i read. It wasn't very intersting to me either. I also think its really boring. It's just not my favorite book to read.
              Mikayla and I basically split the work evenly. Sometimes it was harder since there was only two of us. We made it work though. We both missed a couple days which made it harder because we were behind. But we each did our part in everything, so it was good.

Chapter 12 Summary

                                                               Chapter 12 Summary


               In Chapter twelve, Ralph is hiding from the other tribe. Since they just killed Piggy, he knows he is next. He talks to Samernic, and he tells Ralph that Jack is planning on hunting him. So he needs to be careful. Ralph then finds the sow's head, and decides to take the stake that the head was on and use it as a weapon against Jack. He then realizes the Jack set the jungle on fire to get him to leave. He is chased by Jack and his warriors until he gets to the beach where he passes out.
               When Ralph wakes up, he notices a Naval officer standing in front of him. The officer says that his ship seen the forest fire and decide to come check it out. He assumes that the boys were just messing around, when he finds out what really has been happening; he is very dissappointed. The boys are in such shock that someone is here to rescue them, they start crying. The officer turns his back so they could get themselve back together.

Chapter 10 Summary

                                                            Chapter 10 Summarry


             In chapter ten, they are trying to build another fire. They are hoping get peoples attention and eventually get rescued. Except the fire is not making very much smoke, so they have to keep getting more firewood, and Piggy's asthma starts acting up. Then they notice Sam and Eric fighting, and Ralph and Piggy go an break it up.
            When Piggy and Ralph are in their shelter they hear some people talking to them. So they go outside and realize it's Jack and his group of boys. So they all get in a fight. And Piggy and Ralph get kind of hurt. Everything turns out okay though, and they tell the littluns that

Book Ending

     

            I think at the end of the book, everyone will end up dead. Some people might die by accident, but I think most of them will end up killing each other. Everyone is already starting to get on each others nerves, and they aren't agreeing with each other either.
            I don't think that Ralph's dad is going to find rescue them one day. But he won't get there until years later once they are all already dead. All their familys are going to be so sad. The book is going to end with the parents taking their kids bodies back home on the ship.



                             ~Abbi

In chapter 9 Simon wakes up bleeding and hurt as a storm is approaching. He finds an open field and there are flies surrounding the figure in the field. He found the man in the parachute in the field and realized he was dead and felt bad for him. Meanwhile Piggy and Ralph decided to join Jack and the other boys at Jack's party. Jack and the boys started to dance and chant and celebrate around the fire while Piggy and Ralph joined in. Then it began to storm and Ralph began to argue with Jack because they had no shelter. Then Simon came crawling out of the woods and the boys surrounded him in their celebration dance. He was screaming about the man in the parachute and they began stabbing him and beating him. They were acting like he was the pig and they killed him and then in the storm the man in the parachute was carried out of the woods by the wind and Simon and him were carried out to sea by the waves and the storm winds.

~Mikayla

                                                              Chapter 6 Summary


          In chapter six, its getting cold and dark, so the boys have another fire. Sam and Eric notice something between the gaps of rocks, and it makes the hairs stand up on their arms. They go and wake up Ralph who was sleeping, amd tell him that they seen the beast.  He tells them to gather everyone so they can tell then the news.
          Once they tell everyone, Ralph and the biguns ate, and then went out to find the beast. They left Piggy there to watch the littuns again. They go to one spot where they have never been to on the island. Simon says he doesnt believe in the beast. Some of the boys want to stay where they're at, but Ralph won't let them. So the boys make their way to the mountain.



                                                                                             Abbi Dobbs

In chapter 8, Jack gets mad at Ralph and calls a meeting. Jack asks all the boys to raise their hands if they don't think Ralph should be leader and none of the boys did. Jack was furious and stormed away and said he was no longer a part of their group. Jack ends up getting a few followers and they go and kill a mother boar and stick her head on a stick for the Beastie. Ralph and piggy move the fire down hill to their campsite and they start making changes that will better them. Simon names the boar's head Lord of The Flies because she is covered in them. Jack takes fire wood from Ralph and the other boys in the night. And Simon discovers they are the beasts.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003258.htm

.Hearing sounds, voices, feeling body sensations, seeing patterns or lights, and smelling foul odors are all symptoms.
.Being drunk or high can cause it along with many diseases.
.Could be your body warning you of organ failure.

~Mikayla

In chapter 7, the boys travel to the other side of the island and Piggy stays behind with the younger kids. Ralph try's to go hunting with Jack and the hunters while they are over there and he hits the pig in the but with his spear and he was so excited and finally understood why hunting was so important as well. Ralph didn't want to leave Piggy alone on the other side of the island all night so Simon volunteered to go back and then Ralph and Jack went with a few other kids to the top of the mountain to find the Beastie because someone claimed to see it by where there fire was. Once they got to the top of the mountain the boys saw the Beastie and were terrified by its appearance so they ran back down as fast as possible to avoid the Beastie.

 

http://pelotes.jea.com/AnimalFact/Mammal/Boar.htm

.Boars are a type of pig not native to North America.

.Boars like to live in forests next to streams or ponds.

.Can grow to 5ft and 300lbs !!!

.1 litter of babies can be up to 14.

.Boars eyesight is not very good but they hear very well.

~Mikayla 

Chapter 3, 4, &5 Summmarys

                                                                     Chapter 3
         In chapter three, Jack, Simon, and Ralph are having a conversation about everything they need to do. They already know that the fire isnt burning enough smoke to make a signal. Their next plan was to build shelter. Simon had started building two shelters, which were in position, but shaky. No one except Ralph, Jack, and Simon are doing any work. Jack wants to kill a pig because everyone wants meat, and he wont stop talking about it. Ralph is more focused on being rescued and making shelter.
                                                                     Chapter 4
         In chapter four, Jack painted his face to be like a warrior. Ralph goes to check on the fire, and finds out it died, and that the watchers are gone. Then Jack comes back with a pig, and is all happy and wants to kill it and cook it. Piggy and Ralph confront him about leaving the fire and letting it die. Everyone is very angry at Jack beacause they could have been rescued, but instead he decided to leave the fire and go catch a pig.

                                                                     Chapter 5
         In chapter five, Ralph calls a meeting. He decided on some new rules, including one saying they have to keep the fire going. Jack gets annoyed with him, and all the littluns. The littluns are very scared of this beast thing that they have seen in their nightmares. Then Simon gets irritated with the things Ralph is saying, and they get in a fight.



                                                                                        Abbi Dobbs



















                                                                 

Irony is using words to bring a meaning opposite of the literal meaning. Allusion is doing or saying something directly by implication. And symbolism is using things or investing things with symbolic meaning. Irony ties into Lord of the Flies because, in the book Ralph tells the boys to do many things and to follow by the rules they all agreed on and all of the boys especially the hunters and the younger kids do not obey his orders and there are major consequences to that. Allusion is applied in Lord of the Flies when Ralph tells all of the boys what to do, or when Jack is bossing Piggy around, there are many more examples but those are two of the best. And symbolism is used in Lord of the Flies with the conch shell and the fire, everyone on the island uses the conch shell to keep order and power restricted with everyone so that anyone can say what they need to, and the fire is a symbol of hope and a chance of being rescued, all of the boys rely on the fire for a possible passing ship to see and to cook their food so it also can symbolize survival as well.
 
~Mikayla Mohn

What does the conch symbolise

The symbolism of the conch can be translated in many different ways. I think the conch as more than one symbolic meaning. The conch can symbolise a chance of savior, the boys listen and respect one another's thoughts when they are meeting and the conch brings them together and without the horn and the conch in general there is no unity which brings me to my next thought. I also think the conch can symbolize unity when they have the conch the boys know there role and know to join together and the conch is basically the basis of their survival giving them hope, sexurity, and belief or trust in one another.

Chapter 1 & 2 summary

                                                                     Chapter 1
    Ralph and Piggy meet each other on the island. They try to figure out what happened and if they are the only ones on the island. Then they find a conch shell, and use it to try and call other people on the island. They ended up finding lots of kids, but no adults. They realize they need to decide on a leader. Everyone votes for Ralph. Simon, Jack, and Ralph go check out the rest of the island, while Piggy stayed back and watched the other kids. Jack, Simon, and Ralph ended up finding the spot where the plane crashed.
                                                                     Chapter 2

   Everyone gets together and they have a meetting. They find out that the Queen knows this island exsists, so they know they will be rescued eventually. To help catch a ships attention they go to the top of the mountain and start a fire. Then they realize there its not making any smoke, and starts burning out of control. Piggy explains to them that starting the fire first wasnt very  smart. They should have made shelter down where it was warm and found food before they started the fire.

~Mikayla