Exam Quotes.

“Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!”
Lord of the flies.

“I’m part of you… I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?”
Lord of the flies.

“maybe there is a beast… maybe it is only us”
Simon

“the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.”

Song report: What It’s Like | Everlast 1

What It’s Like” is a song by American musician Everlast. It was released in November 1998 as the lead single from his album Whitey Ford Sings the Blues. Being a combination of rock, hip-hop and blues it has many different affects on how people think about it.  Erik Francis Schrody the writer of the song is a rapper and singer.
“What it’s like” has a very obvious theme which talks about how society jumps to conclusions and doesn’t think about the person they are criticizing. for example when the homeless man is told to “get a job” and the called a “fucking slob” it shows that this man who needs help is given a cold shoulder and putting him down. the song talks about whats wrong wrong with world and how people choose to not help others when need.
although i am not from america i can still see correlations with New Zealand, everyday people who need help get spat on and told to get a job or get over it like its that easy. It may be a far fetch but i believe this song has many similar ideologies with Martin Luther Kings “I Have Dream” where he talks about everyone being equal and being fare to each other.

Song Report: Hotel California| Eagles 2

 

Hotel California written by The Eagles in 1977. A classic rock song written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey is a song written about the materialism of the american dream. They stated in an interview that they were living the american dream and that where they got their inspiration.  the song talks about how once you are living it you can never leave. you get addicted to it and it is what causes your own demise.

all though the band have released their meaning to the public i get a different message from it. for me it talks about getting stuck in your own mind and not being able to see anything different for example. “you can check out anytime you like but you can never leave.” for me this means that you will always be stuck with these brutal thoughts but you can sometimes escape buy doing something that will distract you. but these thoughts will always be here. the people in this song for me are our thoughts. it says that they will stab you with there Steele knives. i think that this means that our thoughts can cause damage and harm us if we are not careful.

My take on this song aside a similar song for me is Stairway to heaven by Led Zeppelin. this is because in that song they sing about people having to buy their way to happiness or heaven.

Quote Weaving

“The thing is- fear can’t hurt you anymore then a dream”
the boys-

when the boys first see jack they see “something dark” in the distance. right off the bat he is shown as an evil. ” Within the diamond haze of the beach, something dark was  fumbling along.”

even from when piggy was first introduced he showed intelligence and his concern for safety ‘He came forward.  searching for safe lodgments for his feet.’

Character Analysis

Name:    Ralph
Appearance:  Male, Fair Hair, Young, Taller then piggy. Boxers body. early teen.
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Relationship: Piggy(intellect and reason) Jack(competition/rival EVIL)
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Name: Jack
Appearance: ” Within the diamond haze of the beach, something dark was                                           fumbling along. ”
” floating coat, tall, thin. bony, hair red beneath black hat. ”
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Name: Piggy
Appearance: ” He was shorter then the fair boy and very fat. He came forward.                                 searching for safe lodgments for his feet, then looked up                                               through his thick spectacles”
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Name: Simon
Appearance: “the choir boy who had fainted”
“He’s always throwing a faint.”
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Name: Sam and Eric
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The Siege Of Jadotville #6

The Siege Of Jadotville is a historical fiction which takes place during the katanga conflict in the Congo. it follows the true events which took place in 1961. 155 Irish UN troops were deployed to hold against mercenary military units serving the Katanga government. the attackers had a strength of 3000-5000 men and attacked in waves of 600. The UN had abandoned the men there as they were only a pawn in a larger plan and they fought for their lives. there were 0 Irish casualties and after days of endless fighting the surrendered. after several months they were released due to UN making a deal. these men’s stories were pushed under the carpet by the UN and they were given a bad name. there was no recognition for these men until early 21st recent and they did not receive any medals.

in our world today we still have the issue of powerful heads using the common men and women as pawns in their plans and not caring for their lives. an example is the extremists known as ISIS. many of their soldiers are suicide bombers. this is a direct show of the leaders lack of care as they get their loyal soldiers to go and kill themselves for them.  another more common example is in most franchises. they work like a pyramid. the guy on top cares only for himself and gets the lower levels to keep him up. then the level below is the same and so on until you get to the bottom. the middle class. these people are disposable and most of the time work their butts off for minimum wage with no recognition or thanks for their work.

similar film to this is Ender’s Game. although there is a good reason for the sacrifice literally thousands of men die at the hand of one person to achieve a large plan of killing a race of aliens off for good.

Movie Report #1: The Imitation Game #3

The Imitation Game is a 2014 American historical drama directed by Morten Tyldum. Alan turning is a mathematician and is employed by bletchley park under the rule of Commander Alistair denniston. he has been tasked with breaking the enigma machine, used by the Germans to send coded messages. Alan from a young age has always been very serious and lacked a sense of humor. through out the film we see glimpses into alans past and learn about Christopher Morcom who shows him cryptography and eventually alan forms romantic feelings towards Christopher.
All of Alan’s work partners find him incredibly difficult to work with as Alan sees them as inferior to him. he ends up building the enigma breaker himself until Commander Denniston cuts funding for the project as there have been no results. Turning writes to the then president of England Winston Churchill who then gives anal all of the funding required.  and places Alan in-charge of the team. Alan fires several of his co workers and places a crossword in the newspaper. from this he hires Joan Clark.
once the Machine which he named Christopher is completed it is ineffective as it cannot solve the enigma by the end of their day which is when the Germans change the code. Denniston comes back and orders for the machine to be destroyed and fire Alan. all of his co workers stand up and defend Alan. Clark decides to leave as her parents wish but Alan proposes to her to make sure she stayed. during the wedding Alan confesses his sexual orientation to a co worker who warns him to keep it quiet. Alan has a brain wave after overhearing a clerk mention a German soldier that she spies on and his messages. after adjusting the machine it fires out the decryption in minutes. Alan realizes not everything can be decrypted as the Germans would eventually find out enigma has been broken.
In the 1950s Turing is convicted of indecency and, in lieu of a jail sentence, undergoes chemical castration so he can continue his work. Clarke visits him in his home and witnesses his physical and mental deterioration. She comforts him by saying that his work saved millions of lives.
7 June 1954 Alan Turning took his life as a result of his medication. He is considered the father of modern computing and A.I.

After watching this movie and learning about the fantastic mathematician and war hero Alan Turning I am amazed at how much of a stigma was around homosexuality in the 1950’s. it was so bad that even the one of the greatest minds in the world was charged with something that they cannot control. it is a shame that he took his own life when he had so much potential.

I am thankful that the world we live in today now accepts people for who they are and people who are different may be dissed but will never face what happened to Alan Turning during the last years of his life.

 

Lord of the Flies Practice Assessment

Describe at least one important object in the written text.
Explain why that object was important.

Lord of the Flies is a novel written by William Golding and was published in 1954. It is a story of a group of boys aged 6 – 12 who have been evacuated from a nuclear war and are shot down on a deserted island without any adult supervision. They battle with many issues mainly how being alone without order brings the bad out of them

One if the most important objects would be the pig head known as “Lord of The Flies.” This is because of its symbolic meaning that the strange character known as Simon gives it. The pigs head itself was placed as a offering to the “beast” by jack and his hunters. Simon who is one of the oldest kids is an in-between of Ralph the rational leader and jack who is a ruthless savage. He is rational but also aware of the dangers of the island. his connection with nature is the reason he first sees the ‘Lord of The Flies’ while on one of his journeys into the jungle. unaware of jack and his hunters placing the head he comes across it and has a hallucination. his subconscious uses the pigs head to tell him what he already knows but wont accept.

The Lord of The Flies symbolizes the beast that the boys had been hunting all along “And I’m the Beast. . . . Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! . . . You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are the way they are?”  The ‘Lord of The Flies’ says this to Simon in chapter 8 which confirm his thoughts in chapter 5. “What I mean is . . . maybe it’s only us.” Simon urgent to end the fear says that the beast may only be them. The Lord of The Flies say that this evil they have been hunting all this time has been right in front of them, it is the center of their destructive nature and savage human instincts inside them. it talks about how this evil human instinct is deep inside all of us, its what causes us to hold ourselves back from greatness. on a global scale, the evil is what causes the mass murder in war and stops everyone working together. The boys are the evil and they have been fearing themselves all along. not some snake in the jungle. it also explains why they were never able to see the ‘Beast’. It was inside them all along

Simon describe the pigs head to be swarming with flies with a dark abyss of black inside its mouth. The flies on the outside just show that the pigs head is just decaying but it symbolizes that we all have the potential to have a stinking evil come out and attract all that is bad. the blackness of the mouth shows that inside us we have a darkness to us, even if it is not shown on the outside it always there and waiting.

 

Lord Of The Flies Study

title  ·  Lord of the Flies

author  · William Golding

Plot:
A plane full of boys 12 and under is shot down onto an uninhabited.

Ralph the main protagonist meets Piggy and the find the conch. they blow into it and boys from the crash find their way to the Ralph and Piggy on the island.

Ralph is elected as leader against Jack who is then placed in charge of his choir for hunting

one of the younger boys says he has seen a beast in the woods and all of the older boys dismiss this and call the young boy stupid.

the boys decide the best way to be rescued is to build a signal fire for passing ships. and puts jack in charge

Ralph Jack and Simon hike up a mountain to confirm if they are actually on an island and find a good spot on top of the island to light the signal fire. they find a pig and Jack is about to kill it when he hesitates and it gets away

Piggy suggests that they use his glasses to light the fire with the sun and the boys rush and start a huge bonfire causeing a huge part of the jungle to catch and they loose a young boy

jack and Ralph agree that shelters are needed to comfort the little kids

tensions rise between Jack and Ralph when Jack and his crew forget to keep the fire going because they are to focused on attempting to hunt.

Jack claims that he himself saw the beast and say that he will hunt it and kill it. while Ralph tries to keep order and attempts to be rational saying they can overcome the fear of the beast and that it is only in their heads.

jack convinces a group of the boys to come with him and he bribes them with pig. jacks new tribe turn to savagery and impale a pigs head to a spear

Simon comes across the impaled pig head and has a hallucination of it talking to him and call it the lord of the flies. it says the beast isnt anything the can hunt because the beast is nothing but the violence in the kids. he then faints

when Rimon awakens he runs to jacks camp and all the savages that used to be kids mistake him for the beast and brutally kill him. even Ralph and piggy get caught up in it.

jack decides that they should have the fire so him and a bunch of his goons jump piggy and Ralph and take Piggy’s glasses to start the fire. leaving Ralph and piggy in pain

Ralph Isn’t happy so he and piggy confront jack about it and they get into a fight. piggy is killed by a rock and the conch is destroyed

out numbered by jacks savage followers Ralph dashes to the shore racing against the now burning Forrest.

when Ralph gets the ocean he spots a naval officer and the naval officer sees the boys trying to kill Ralph he says he is disappointing and takes them away.

MAIN CHARACTERS

Ralph:
Appearance:  12, blond, “built like a boxer”
attributes: Natural leader, positive, rational
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Contflicts: Jack
Friends: Piggy.

Jack:

Simon:

Piggy:

Roger:

Sam and Eric (samneric):