Saturday, 23 November 2013
Tuesday, 27 August 2013
IGCSE LOTF tasks- Language Analysis
Huts on the beach
How is language being used to develop Jack's transformation?
Jack us given animalistic and preditorial features, further enhancing his sudden transformation from a simple choir boy. The setting of the jungle,"the creepers that festooned them lost themselves in a green duck thirty feet above him; and all about was the undergrowth.", portrays the sort of change Jack has gone through. Above the trees, the light and sunshine show the brought child Jack was, but once he passes through the trees and descends onto the undergrowth everything is dark and unknown, just like Jack's personality.
Then the author uses "dog-like", to describe Jack's position and posture. This shows that this young boy, Jack, would endure the pain of crawling on all fours. A normal, civilised boy wouldn't normally go through the trouble of enduring the psi for this sort of activity. However Jack's obsession pushes on thus-,"unheeding his discomfort".
Tuesday, 13 August 2013
Chapter 12
Ralph- Ralph has racing thoughts through his mind as he realises the deaths of his two friends. He then realises what a monster Jack has become and how he has been responsible for all of this. He feels angry and terrified that he might be next. When he reaches the mountain of Jack's tribe he asks the two twins to follow him but all they give him is food. He then wanders into the jungle and after a while realises that Jack and his tribe have set the jungle on fire. He then runs for his life until he collapses on the beach due to exhaustion.
Jack- Jack can't wait to kill Ralph. He feels eager and willing to know what would come next. His monstrous mind made him light the trees on fire in the jungle. He uses every bit of his energy to find and hunt down Ralph until he encounters a navy at the beach where Ralph lay down.
Theme- The final part of the story was scary and full of suspense. As Ralph ran for his life, Jack chased him to kill him for nothing. After murdering and torturing many people, Ralph thinks that he won't be able to survive alone in the Jungle but when he reaches the beach, he finds a navy soldier who looks at all of them in surprise. He then tells them that he cannot believe that they had lived and changed here for such a short period of time.
Chapter 11
Ralph- Ralph now can't take it anymore, he doesn't know what to do. He feels that all his efforts and struggles have reflected back on him. He then decides to host a meeting with the two young boys who didn't join Jack's tribe. After discussing, they decide to go to Jack's tribe on the mountain and ask for what they had stolen from them.
Piggy- Piggy's eyesight grew worse, without his glasses he couldn't even see the trees clearly. This meant that the only way for him to see properly again was for him to get his glasses back. After the meeting they decide to go to the mountain to ask for the glasses back.
Jack- From the first chapter till now, Jack has turned into a monster. He has become a straight bully, and even a murderer. He hits and tortures people when he feels like it and even thinks that beating the younger boys is funny. When Ralph and Piggy arrived with the two young boys, Jack couldn't resist but go straight for Jack. Through Jack's teaching Roger through a massive rock down from the cliff which killed Piggy.
Theme- Jack's vulgarian personality made the other boys learn from it and feel that stealing and beating the younger boys was the right thing to do hence they started following him. Roger, trying to kill Ralph with a stone, missed him and ended up killing Piggy.
Chapter 10
Jack- Jack decides to take full control of his tribe and randomly beats the small children and ties them up. He uses his bullying to make Jack continues to be greedy and a vulgarian and decides to attack Ralph's camp and steel firewood. Jack takes his whole tribe and decides to raid Ralph's camp and steal whatever they've got so that they wouldn't need to work and hunt for it. Jack also feeds his "tribe members" with advice stating that Ralph is danger to the group and should be avoided.
Ralph and Piggy- Both the boys don't understand why their tribe is raided and why they are being assaulted. Within minutes all that they have collected during the day was stolen including piggy's glasses.
Theme- The absurd reason for raiding Ralph's camp was so that Jack didn't need to look for resources and find other items to strive on. To make fire Piggy's glasses were used to reflect the sun's rays on the wood. Therefore Jack's tribe assaulted and stole them from Piggy and Ralph during the middle of the night.
Chapter 9
Jack- In this chapter, Jack is portrayed as a king. He takes over his group and treats everyone like they are is servants. Jack even makes a dance up for his servants to chant and dance to. He sits on a throne and puts on make-up on his face to resemble a king. This shows how over time his hunger for power has got him to this stage where he treats his own friends like his servants.
Ralph- Ralph no matter what had happened earlier decides to go to Jack's group and try and help them out. He still doesn't care how they had treated him or betrayed him, he hopes that he could just control something that was going on.
Piggy- Piggy is still at Ralph's side and feels that Ralph should still have control over the group of boys. He however still hates Jack for everything that he has done to him.
Simon- Once Simon regained his consciousness, he walked until he ended up on the cliff where the body lay. He looked at the remains of the body and threw up, after bearing the body in his hands he took it to show the other boys that there was no beast just a dead body. As he walks up to the fire where Jack's group lay, the group saw the so called "beast" walking towards them and all the boys lept on Simon, stabbing and killing him.
Theme: Through Jack's overconfidence and vulgarian attitude, Simon was stabbed and killed after only trying to inform the boys that there was no beast. Jack's selfishness and greediness gained him leadership of the majority of the boys. The main reason the boys decided to join him was because he could hunt and provide them with food and drinking water.
Chapter 8
Ralph- This chapter mainly shows the conflict between Jack and Ralph. There have been soo many fights in the past few chapters that Ralph doesn't know what to do. He has lost hope in the group no matter how hard he tries to make it work and make the other boys follow the rules.
Jack- Jack is now hungry for power. He starts getting really jealous of Ralph, he takes the trumpet-shell and blows through it to call for a meeting. In the meeting he tells the boys that Ralph should be stripped of his leadership and the leadership should be given to him. He starts getting aggressive and once he realises that a lot of boys want Ralph as their leader, he decides to leave the group.
Piggy- In this chapter, Piggy is shown as a person who tries to calm Ralph down and tell him that everything is fine. He suggests a new idea to Ralph to try and cheer him up, which worked and they started working on it.
Theme- This chapter mainly shows that once Ralph and the other boys started working on the new emergency signal, the other boys ran away to Jack's group. This made Ralph feel even worse after realising that he was only trying to help them so that they could survive.
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