Religion is all over Lord of The Flies. One of the most significant things in the book actually was hidden in plain sight. The fact that the book is "Lord" of the flies took me about 3 chapters of reading to realize. I should've known this was going to be in my opinion the biggest focus Goulding had in this book the instant I read that title for the first time. This is obviously significant because the title is key to getting people to read your work and give people ideas of what your book about.
Another religious moment is in the middle of the book. The narrator describes the Lord of the Flies as "the sleeping leviathan" (105). Not many people know about the leviathan, but this is the most interesting chapter of the Bible to me. In Job 41, It talks about a huge creature that couldn't be tamed called the Leviathan. You should consider reading it. A third religious hint Goulding lays is soon after the Leviathan reference. It states "The chant rose ritually, as at the last moment of a dance or hunt. Kill the pig! Cut his Throat! Kill the Pig! Bash him in!" (114). This doesn't have do to with a specific religion, but it deals with general religion. This quote sets the scene like the killing of this pig is a ritual instead of just killing it a pig. The sacrificial aspect of this scene gives it a religious allusion that I think is fairly hard to detect.
Monday, December 10, 2012
Books I've read
LOTF ch 9-11 95 min. (heavy annotations) literary analysis work 60 min.
Palace Walk
LOTF
In Defense of Food
My Life and The Beautiful Game
Same Kind of Different As Me
The Westing Game
And Then There Were None
Nation
Over the course of the semester, I have learned many things about myself as a reader that I didn't previously know. For some odd reason, my attention span has plummeted this semester. I used to be able to read books in 2 hours. Now it would probably take me 2 days to read the same book. One reason for this is I haven't really found a good book that I can't wait to sit down and read in a really long time. This semester it seems like it's been more about fulfilling the 2.5 hour requirement than finding a good book to enjoy.
I have a big goal for next semester. This could be the gamechanger that I've needed this year. Next semester, I will double that list. The list above is 7 months of reading. I'm going to double it in 5. It's a big task for me to do that. Those were some long books (Palace Walk) and they challenged me like no others, but that list WILL be doubled by the time I leave this class. It will get done.
Palace Walk
LOTF
In Defense of Food
My Life and The Beautiful Game
Same Kind of Different As Me
The Westing Game
And Then There Were None
Nation
Over the course of the semester, I have learned many things about myself as a reader that I didn't previously know. For some odd reason, my attention span has plummeted this semester. I used to be able to read books in 2 hours. Now it would probably take me 2 days to read the same book. One reason for this is I haven't really found a good book that I can't wait to sit down and read in a really long time. This semester it seems like it's been more about fulfilling the 2.5 hour requirement than finding a good book to enjoy.
I have a big goal for next semester. This could be the gamechanger that I've needed this year. Next semester, I will double that list. The list above is 7 months of reading. I'm going to double it in 5. It's a big task for me to do that. Those were some long books (Palace Walk) and they challenged me like no others, but that list WILL be doubled by the time I leave this class. It will get done.
Monday, December 3, 2012
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