SLIDE ANALYSIS

1. What is focus?
Focus is when you pay attention to what is happening.
2. An event and what it reveals?
It’s a happening and what it means.
3. A decision a character makes?
A risk they decide to take.
4. A characters circumstances?
What might and could happen to them after the risk, the consequences good or bad.
5. Something else?
Something different then what is happening.

1. What do we learn about him, her, them?
You learn that they want to become more 'independent' but by that they end up becoming more savage like and less like 'English Men'. Also, at the beginning of the book, Ralph was the leader. By the end of the book, Jack had taken over. The only reason he took over however, was because he terrorized them with ideas of what would happened if he wasn't leading them.
2. How do we learn these things?
We learn these things by observing their actions in the book.
3. Dialogue? Description?
"Kill the Beats, Cut his throat, spill his blood!"


1. What attitude does the narrator have toward the passage?
The narrator is giving a good description of what is happening. He makes it sound very sad and difficult to live through.
2. What is the tone?
The tone is very harsh and 'loud', it sounds very mean and it really makes you feel like they are turning into savages.
3. What attitude do we take toward the narrator?
I think it sounds like the narrator has personal issues.


1. Does it fall into distinct sections?
It falls mostly into the beginning, the way they attack Simon, the way that it's so full of hate.
2. What characterizes these?
"Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!"
3. What rationale does the structure have?
They thought their rational was that they were killing the beast. Instead, they killed a kid.


1. Within character?
Jack and Ralph : good and evil , democracy and destruction
2. Between characters?
Jack and Ralph : good and evil , democracy and destruction
3. Between the external world and the character?
They started off to try and live the same way that they lived when they were in England, but by the end they weren't able to do that. They turned into savages.

1. Does it reflect the characters inner thoughts?
Yes, it makes you understand how they think and why they think that way.
2. Provide a contrast to what is happening in the characters mind?
Good and the Bad.
3. Create suspense?
When something is left off without telling you how it ends, or when something takes a long time to get to the point.
4. What senses does it appeal to?


1. Is the diction memorable?
Yes, the words chosen can change the meaning and effect.
2. Are there patterns of words?
"Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!"
3. Literary devices such as metaphors?
Yes, they help get the point across with hidden meanings.
4. Does the level of language shift from colloquial to formal?
Yes, when the kids are speaking its really colloquial, but then the narrator describe what is happening and it's very formal.

1. Is past present or another tense used?
No
2. What is the effect?
There is none.

What is important when you adapt a book?

The importance of adapting the book is to get the plot right. The reason you need to have the correct plot, is because if someone hasn't read the book, they still want to know the real facts. People also want to watch the story preformed the same way it was written in the book, so that they know what the can relate it to. A lot of movies however, are very different from the book. This is usually because they have to find a better way to adapt the plot to the place that they are filming, or the amount of time they have to film it.

How does death contribute to the symbolism of the boy's descent toward savagery?

Death contributes to the symbolism of the boy's descent toward savagery because it proves how people change if they don’t get the right influence. When they were at home, they had their parents to tell them what was wrong and right, but being on their own, they had to figure it out by themselves. Also, when they were sent off to leave England because of the war, the kids thought that the war was bad and pointless. By the end of the book however, they had started their own war. When Piggy dies, it's as if everything ended. Simon had died, but after Piggy's death, Jack took over completely. "I'm Chief!" this is what Jack had been waiting for the whole time. He was waiting for the right moment to take over. The right moment was when Ralph was finally alone. When he had no more power because he had no more supporters. Ralph didn't have any more followers except Samneric, which could be easily won over. The death of Piggy gave savagery a meaning. They killed Piggy the same way they would kill a pig, treating a human being like an animal. "