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"Look! We've killed a pig-we stole up on them- we got in a circle-" ... "You let the fire go out." Jack checked, vaguely irritated by this irrelevance but too happy to let it worry him. "We can light the fire again. you should have been with us, Ralph. we had a smashing time the twins got knocked over-" This is from page 69 and its an excerpt from a conversation between Ralph and Jack. This quote shows that Jack is slowly becoming more obsessed and egotistical. The quote is mainly Jack being more focused on pigs than other problems like rescue. This shows his obsession with the killing of the pigs and making himself feel powerful. This self-absorbed move causes the rest of the group to not get rescued. If Jack and his hunters had kept the fire going like they were supposed to the whole island could have been rescued. This is just the beginning of Jack being more concerned about pigs and the odd satisfaction and power he gets from them. This quote

Thanksgiving is partially over, and I hate it. Its Monday but I woke up thinking it was only Sunday. I have one less mental day. It is still the beginning of break but from now until next Sunday I have so much stuff to do. I know I must get my midterm stuff together and write my blogs and study for science but its break. I feel like breaks aren’t ever real breaks until Christmas, more like catch up time. This stresses me out so much because I just want to lay in bed and listen to music, but I cannot. I think if I did that the stress would eat me alive. I say that, but here I lean on fluffy pillows, listening to music I’ve already heard, typing blogs and letting ideas out that have been sitting in the back of my mind. I type everything I think and edit so I feel like I'm occupied. I have about three thousand things going on up in my head, I think that’s why my words get jumbled up. I have so much going on I need to find out, do, and ask. What are we? What’s going to be on that tes

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page 91 This passage is mainly about Jack being the id and Ralph being the superego in this scene. Jack mentions how he doesn't care and since they are hunters, rules are not needed than besides to kill the beast. Piggy understands there need to be rules but does not try to fight with Jack. Ralph, the superego in the passage, tries to explain there needs to be order in a society and that's all they have connecting them to the real world now. I think this passage is important because it shows there is a thirst for order, rules, and a function society, but Jack doesn't care. I think if people were not as afraid of Jack there would be order. Though even the narrator mentions how the real world is slipping. Jack talks about how since they are hunters there is no need for rules. This seems semi barbaric and like he is turning into a beast himself. Jack also says that they would " beat and beat and beat" but doesn't have any specific noun in that sentence to show

I used to get his texts. He would ask how I'm doing, tell me he loves me. He would assure me he misses me and wants me to come back home. I would reply; we would have a conversation for a while, but it would end on how he wants me to visit and me telling him I have school. The texts cheered me up they would make my day and even my week. I would run over the conversation in my mind as if he were right there with me, hanging out with me how he should be. Over time the texts stop coming. Our conversations died down. Our imaginary time ceased. The two message conversations of his red heart emoji and my "I miss you"s have been the new normal. He still texts me, but it's not the same. I think its obligated by law. If he does not have communication with me every 90 days, he's abandoned me. I never saw his texts like that though. Not until now. symbolism: the texts represent a father daughter relationship splitting

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I like Lord of The Flies . I've read plenty of dystopian and realistic fiction before but none like these. In this book there is a ridiculous amount of symbolism, you have to consider everything symbolically. The book is also very detailed, which I like. In Lord of The Flies case, it gets freaky, but I admire the way this author writes. An example of vivid details and symbolism is on page 135. On this page, there is the first encounter of femininity on the island. A mother pig is feeding her piglets when she gets spotted by the boys who begin to hunt her. It seemed vivid and uncomfortable the first time I read it; only for reasons of them mentioning the blood and spear going deep into the pig. After the class and I read it together, I realized they oddly sexualize the passage. They talk about being wedded to the pig's lust, how they hurl themselves at her, and the screaming. I did not catch it when reading, but it was a symbol for rape. It made me wonder if an actual girl

There has all been enforcement in our lives, from the beginning when our parents would tell us to clean and now when our teachers instruct us to write. I look forward to when I’m the one directing myself what to do. I do not know when that will be or for how long though. I’m native to being my own person and only doing what I want because I want it. Not in an "I’m a teenager, and I’m rebellious . I like to dismiss authority," kind of way but my mother and my friends know I do what I want, and people cannot change how I will act. My mom and friends still tell me what to do, how to live, and how to behave but only for my benefit and to help me figure out what is going on. My best friend Grace knows what is best for me more than I do; she knows how my relationships will turn out, she knows how I do on tests based off looking at me, but she knows I won’t always listen to her advice because I like making mistakes and learning from them. I do this because I do not want to live o