Lord of the Flies -- Post 3 (pgs. 95-123)

Summary: Fear is starting to creep over the entire community of abandoned boys. In the meeting preceding this section, a little boy brings up the things he has been seeing and hearing at night. A group of hunters decide to go out and either disprove the beast's existence or kill it. The head out and climb to the only part of the island they had not explore yet, the castle. They arrive and have no luck in finding any traces of the so-called beast. They then travel back to camp and inform everyone of the discovery. With more suspicious sightings and noises, however, they decide to head out again, leaving Piggy behind to watch over the younger children. They are out on their journey when it gets very late and they decide to stay out overnight. Ralph, Jack, and Roger stay near the location of the fire and camp there overnight. In the middle of the darkness, they see something swell and cover the rocks resting above them. They decide to go up and examine them.



Text-to-text connection: When all of the hunters were in the woods and come across a boar, they try and fail to kill it. They then get very carried away with this sighting and start to pretend one of their fellow hunters, Roger, is a pig they are trying to kill. They they create a circle around him and stab him with one of their makeshift wooden arrows. This getting carried away, is very similar to the book Catcher in the Rye, where Holden gets carried away with his actions. He does very rash and extreme things in the book without even thinking. The concept of getting carried away is a teenage characteristic that could likely be found in any book where a teenage character in being portrayed.

Test-to-self connection: When all of the boys go out and try to find the beast's hideout, they climb up a very tall mountain to try and get to the castle at the top. The scenery looking down from the top of that mountain sounds exactly like the scenery from one of the highest peaks at a camp I go to on Catalina Island. The lagoons below with bright blue water with crashing waves and rolling hills with steep ascents remind me a lot of Catalina. The descriptive technique golding uses allows this picture to come to life, almost like I am on Catalina enjoying the views there.