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This is a place for us to discuss openly and honestly the literature we are reading. Here we are all just communicating our thoughts on what we are reading. There are no right and wrong answers. However, you are expected to be polite, mature, and on topic.

Monday, April 22, 2013

Simon inside the beast...

I wish my doctor would have allowed me to come back to teach today so that we could go over Chapter 8.  I think it is the most amazingly symbolic chapter in the novel.  I hope that speaking with Miss Lovelace helped you to see some of the symbolism within the chapter.  Comment on your reaction to Simon's encounters with the Lord of the Flies. Do you think that Simon is hallucinating because of the heat? Remember that Simon is only a young boy, about ten or eleven. Does such a young person usually have the kind of understanding and insight that Simon seems to possess? Do you think the Lord of the Flies's assessment of the other boys's feelings about Simon is accurate? Is there any evidence to support this? Cite it.  Do you think the Lord of the Flies's warning that the others will "do" Simon if he tries to interfere is realistic? (The deadline to comment on this blog is midnight, Monday, April 22, 2013. No credit will be given to plagiarized reponses.)