Jorge's Online Journal

1.- How does Jack Symbolise the inner savage of the children?

Jack at the beginning of the story was a person that act like a leader but Ralph was chosen to be chief so he decided to be the leader of the hunters. Jack behaves like a leaer aand like a savage as well, he starts to wear a mask maybe to hide his I identity or because he is afraid of something. All the children do things that adults do in this case Jack is that adult and they are doing what he does for example the way he behaves, he kills pigs in a savage way and fantasies about all the bloodhe also  he shows the children in the island how he kills the pigs, when Simon went went back to the beach Jack jumped on him and everyone did the same killing Simon.

Another event was when jack decided to create his own group and becomes the new chief of the clan and has a chant ” kill the beast, cut his throat ” which he and all the children said after hunting pigs.

When  he devised the idea to crush Ralph with the giant boulder in the tall grass or to set fire to the whole island just to find Ralph he told everyone to find him and kiss him, Roger had a stick sharp at both ends which means that he was going to do the same thing he did with the pig’s head. Jack encourage all the children in the island to become savages to be like him.

2.- How does Golding attempt to influence our reactions to Jack’s actions?

In chapter 8 Jack decided to be in his own with Roger, Simon and his hunters. They found a bigpig which they kill and Jack said that he will prepare a feast and give the pig’s head to the beast.

Ralph made a fired of which Jack took some branches to have fire as well and he said that anyone that wants to join him can do it and be in the feast, Piggy who was in the platform was scared he thought Jack was going to do something bad but Ralph told everyone that they must keep the fire going to be rescue, the fire was first.

At the end if the chapter Simon who was speaking with the Lord of the flies when all this happened was looking at him listening to all that the Lord of the flies was saying that he will have fun, that he is like Ralph and Jack but then the Lord of the flies started to disappear and Simon was inside his mouth then he fell down and lost consciousness.

In chapter 7

At the beginning of chapter 6 the writer talks about something falling from the sky that seems to be a man with a parachute but it also says “and the figure sat, it’s helmeted head between its knees” which probably means it’s dead.

Sam and Eric were taking care of the fire when they saw the figure and they started to run to the shelters where they told Ralph about the beast, Ralph and Jack decided to go and hit the bea mist which was on the mountain near the fire. In their way to the mountain they found a cave, Jack told to Ralph that it could be the perfect place to build a fort but Ralph refused and told them to keep walking in a way to show his authority.

*How doe the speaker use nature to present symbols in “Porphyria’s Lover” and “I think of Thee”?

In both poems the speaker use personification mentioning trees, in the poem “think of Thee” the speaker use vines saying there are wild and messy to show how much she loves that person that when she thinks about him it stops her focusing and that her thoughts are wild and growing every time she thinks about her lover and also she is wants to express her sexual attraction to him   “About thee, as wild vines, about a tree” while in PL the speaker present nature in the opening if the poem

How does the speaker present ideas or conflict in The Tiger?

The speaker uses a number of ways to present the idea of fire and what it might mean in the tiger. When I read stanza four, there are number used that are to do with the process of using fire to make a chain. Why?

The tiger could be the chain. The fire is heats the chain, to take the hammer shape the chain.

Globled like a full sail string. His father was a strong person.

His eye narrowed  and angled at the ground. His dad was concentrate on doing his wor.

All I ever did was follow In his broad shadow around the farm. His dad was always working and couldn’t help him so he feels bad.

“But today it is my father who keeps stumbling behind me, and will not go away”. His father is dead so he now is the one that needs to do the work but he can’t because he isn’t like his father, he maybe remember when he was a kid and he couldn’t help his dad because he wasn’t as him.

This is related to the title Now he isn’t following his father maybe he thinks his father is following him because he isn’t as good as his dad and also he maybe think that his dad is going to be following him until he see that his son is strong enough to do the work that he wasn’t able to do because isn’t as strong as his father.

Me-hahahaah so he doesn’t come to work on Wednesday

My friend-so thn wht i have to take is the oyster or travelcard?can’t believ it, you didn’t get anything for me ?????

Me-I think it is much better if you buy the oyster.

My friend-Ok, tube and trains are under control now..I’m so danm good, it’s as if i had lived there hahahahah

Me-because if you buy the oyster you will be charged what you spend

My friend- Ahh, but there is another one

~Most adults think that we are destroying the English language but I don’t think so. In my opinion young people aren’t destroying  the English language. I think  that destroying is not the best word I think that the best word could be changing or  improving the English language.

The way in which someone speaks depends on the country that person comes from and not only that for example other three things that could affect the way someone speaks is the status. The vocabulary is different in each country in Spain we have a different way pronounce the letters if I compare it to other countries. The accent is different in each country I’m from Ecuador but I also lived in Spain and now I’m living in London so my accent is different from my friends.

As I said the status could change  the way someone speaks if a person think he is cool and better from the rest he will speak people in different tones depending on who is he talking to family, friends or other adults.

However we didn’t just think about creating a new way to communicate what I think is that young people have maybe learn the slang  from adults and that we are not destroying the English language we developed it using the old slang that the adults used so we took those words and create new ways to communicate using slang words, emojis and more things instead of using long sentences or just words. These shows that young people  is creative and imaginative because they have create more and more ways to communicate an example of this is the use of acronyms for example BTW which means “by the way” here I can see that we decide to use just the initials instead of the normal words but they decide to be even more creative using the pronunciation of the letters instead of the initials or the words, here is an example “beeteedubs” which also means “by the way”.

Adults are the only ones that complain about the use of slang, emojis and the other things but they also use them. At the beginning of the essay i put three pictures, two of them are a conversation between my friend and my and the other one is between my mother and me. Both are about different things but both are link the way we talk. The way I talk with my friend is different from the way I talk with my mother. We all like to use emojis. In this two conversations my friend and my mother use long sentences and some contain emojis but my mother use formal sentences and my friend use informal sentences but both have lack of punctuation. The difference between them is that my friend uses slang and clippings while my mother doesn’t also i use formal sentences that have lack of punctuation but I don’t use emojis, clippings or slang. My friend uses more than one interrogative and exclamation marks instead of one with could mean confusion also he uses emojis to express feelings. In these two text my friend is the only one that uses emojis to express his feelings in this case he use it to show that he is laughing.

The use of slang, clippings or acronyms is an easy way to communicate if you don’t like to write long sentences or just long words but it is difficult to understand for people that is not used to it maybe that’s why some adults say that we are destroying the language but we are not, we are changing it, improving it. What I think is that we are trying to improve what adults started before by improving the slang that they have created the one  which now they want young people to stop using. Basically what I’m tying to say is that we are finishing what they started and didn’t finish.

Task 1

In this text William Golding is not talking about the boys he is talking about mirages that they can see in the island the ones they have learn to ignore basically Golding is talking about the rhythm the boys need to get use to stop doing the northern European tradition of work, play, and food right through the day because some boys have started to be affected by th

1)The boys have already adapt to one of this rhythm “The first rhythm that they became used to was the slow swing from dawn to quick dusk”

2)The boys have ignore the mirages that as they have ignore the miraculous throbbing stars “Piggy discounted all this learnedly as a ‘mirage” “they grew accustomed to these mysteries and ignored them,just as they ignored the miraculous throbbing stars”

3)Percival has been affected by the new rhythm “Percival had early crawled into a shelter and stayed there for two days, talking, singing, and crying”

Task 2

In this character analysis I’m going to talk about Jack and how he has change.

Firstly i want to talk about Jack behaviour which has change a lot, Jack in this chapter when Ralph started the assembly was behaving good but when Ralph started to talk about the beast that the kids talk about he started to argue with Ralph and Piggy “Jack was up too, unaccountable angry. Who cares what you believe–Fatty!”.

Secondly I’m going to talk about the problems that the conch has cause, for example when Piggy took the conh and said that he has the right to speak but Jack didn’t care and he said that “You shut up, you fat slug.