Dina Masoud
English 10
Conflict: Describe the conflicts, internal or external, that drive events in this section of the book, and the changes that these conflicts cause as characters try to resolve or escape them.
Throughout these first four chapters, we realize that one huge and main conflict is the environment the characters (boys) are currently in. They have landed on a deserted island with not enough varieties of foods. The temperature is warm and living conditions there seem poor. One way that we see our characters resolve this conflict is by doing the best they can to survive. This conflict and struggle helps motivate them to search and hunt for meat (pigs meat in this case) to escape living on only fruits. This leads to internal conflict for Jack when killing the pig. He is scared and doesn’t have enough courage to witness death. However; he does end up providing his friends with food. Another conflict we see is that these boys lack experience of being deserted and facing tough situations as so and trying to resolve the on their own. They come to the …show more content…
Examples might be what is human nature? What is the good life/good society?
Innocence: One big idea from the text is the loss of innocence. While reading the book, we see that these boys arrive as young inexperienced and innocent children. Later we see they have become different people. They no longer hold on to the name of innocence. Instead, they have been exposed to new things. We see that some innocence is gone in chapter 4. “"Kill the pig! Cut her throat! Spill the blood!"
Power: page 21
Facing Reality: “His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.”
English 10
Conflict: Describe the conflicts, internal or external, that drive events in this section of the book, and the changes that these conflicts cause as characters try to resolve or escape them.
Throughout these first four chapters, we realize that one huge and main conflict is the environment the characters (boys) are currently in. They have landed on a deserted island with not enough varieties of foods. The temperature is warm and living conditions there seem poor. One way that we see our characters resolve this conflict is by doing the best they can to survive. This conflict and struggle helps motivate them to search and hunt for meat (pigs meat in this case) to escape living on only fruits. This leads to internal conflict for Jack when killing the pig. He is scared and doesn’t have enough courage to witness death. However; he does end up providing his friends with food. Another conflict we see is that these boys lack experience of being deserted and facing tough situations as so and trying to resolve the on their own. They come to the …show more content…
Examples might be what is human nature? What is the good life/good society?
Innocence: One big idea from the text is the loss of innocence. While reading the book, we see that these boys arrive as young inexperienced and innocent children. Later we see they have become different people. They no longer hold on to the name of innocence. Instead, they have been exposed to new things. We see that some innocence is gone in chapter 4. “"Kill the pig! Cut her throat! Spill the blood!"
Power: page 21
Facing Reality: “His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.”