How are the Characters Doing?

Well since you are for the most part, intelligent people or you at least have a pulse, you can guess that this post is about the characters of Lord of The Flies. So who to start out with. hmmmmm. Lets go with Piggy. In the beginning he was very talkative to Ralph and he seemed very knowledgeable. the knowledge has remained the same but he is a lot quieter now since there are a lot of boys now. That is until Ralph calls him Piggy in front of the group. Then he just loses it and yells at Ralph. That's about it for him. Moving on then. Ralph. He appears to be a laid back character who doesn't seem phased by anything. But he slowly loses that aspect as he has to take charge and be a leader for the boys. This shows his serious side as he is intent in finding out the situation they are in. To round it all out I'm going to end with Jack. Personally, I don't like him. He is the leader of the choir boys and they are all a little snobby. Since he is the leader he is like king of the snobs or something. also he is a power hungry crazy person who tries to intimidate the other boys to vote for him as leader. When they elect Ralph, he gets upset so Ralph has to appoint him as a general or something to calm him down. Even though they are kids, Jack is like a toddler. That's about it for this blog I'll see you guys next time. Oh wait, there is no next time. Alright then I'll see you next year maybe? I don't know. whatever bye.

Lord of The Flies: About the Author

Well, its been fun but we are nearing the end of blogging for the year. So on a less gloomy(or happy if you are me) note, lets talk about the author. Sir William Golding. Yeah, that's right, he is a Sir. If that doesn't give you a hint then I will just ell you. He is British and he has knighted. He was born in 1911 and he died pretty recently in 1993. He was a pretty old dude. Even though he is dead there is still a bunch of his unpublished journals lying around to be well, published. I know one was published in 2004 so i guess its like he is a ghost writer or something. Budum tssss. Yeah I know, that was a pretty corny joke. Although he is known for Lord of the Flies, he has actually written a lot of other books including his first one at the age of 23. Reading about him I have come to realize that he is a pretty fascinating guy. If you want t look into him more just go to http://www.william-golding.co.uk/life.aspx for more information about his life and his works. That's all for this post so I will see you guys late.

More Lord of the Flies

     Just read more Lord of the Flies, and its getting better. Three of the children went off to figure out if they are on an island or if they are on a part of a tropical area. Jack, Simon and Ralph go to find a high place so they can tell.I left off Ralph said,"this place it's ours". This leads me to believe that they are on an island in the middle of no were. At one point one off the boys mentioned something about an airport being blown up by an atomic bomb. This is really confusing me because only a few of the boys remember. An airport being vaporized is something that I find hard to forget but apparently for a bunch of twelve year olds, it's not. Whatever maybe I'll find out later but for now, My mind is boggled.

So far in Lord of the Flies...

     Well I just got done reading some of Lord of The Flies by William Golding, and I am really confused. To start it off, the boys are stranded on the island because they were on a plane that crashed. The plane is no were to be seen and the only survivors are a group of school boys and a group of choir boys. It gets worse. There are no adults anywhere on the island and the choir boys all have knives. What kind of choir walks around with knives? unless they are going to some sketchy neighborhood in Detroit or something(no offense Detroit) then there is no reason for this. not to mention, how did they get on a plane with knives when they wont even let you get on a plane with a melted ice pack. Yes that has actually happened to me. Its OK when its frozen but if its melted, well, that's just a big no no. What do they think I'm going to do with it, drink it? Oh right, the book. Well anyway its good they have knives because that could be useful for survival. I mean I'm probably over analyzing the knife thing but hey, that's what I do. Anyway you are probably sick of listening to me go off on random tangents about airport security so lets just dive in, head first into a summary. People like summaries right? Consider it my version of Spark Notes. Jake Notes. No that is awful. Oh how about Jake's incredibly manly lumberjack summaries. Ya that's good.

     Anyway it starts off with this boy named Ralph walking through the jungle. specifically the big gouge the plane crash made in it. He is walking along towards the beach until he sees a rustle in the jungle. It turns out to be a non-stop talking, asthmatic, plump kid who the group calls Piggy. Piggy and Ralph start talking to each other(although it is mainly just Ralph ignoring Piggy's incoherent jabbering) until they find a conch shell. Ralph picks it up and blows it like a horn. all the other boys on the island come running including the choir boys and the leader Jack. They get along and they decide to decide a chief. Jack instantly tries to claim this position but the other kids decide to vote. All of the choir boys vote for Jack and all the rest vote for Ralph, making Ralph the leader. This is about were I ended so, uh ya. That about wraps up this blog. Feel free to check out this link to the author's website. I'm sure you will find lots of great books to read.William Golding's Website

New Book. Finally.

     Well I know it has been a while and I'm now behind on my blogs but I just started reading a new book. I couldn't get the one I wanted so now I am going to read Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Lets be honest, I'm a little worried it will be boring since it was a mandatory book to teach last year but hey, why not? I needed a book to read so I found one. I have absolutely no idea what it is about but I can't knock it till I try it. I should probably read the back of the book. OK, I'm back and a read the back. basically there is this group of boys stranded together on an island. To me it seems like they are going to form a society, but with them being young boys and all, it is probably going to fail miserably and turn into utter chaos. I'm surprised that it actually doesn't sound like that bad of a book. in fact critics have said "a dizzy climax of terror" and "beautifully written, tragic and provocative". with reviews like that it is hard to turn my nose up at it.

      In the video embedded above, Golding is discussing Lord of the Flies and why he wrote it. I found that this gives some great insight to the way his mind works and why he wrote this book. He seems like he was an intelligent person. Unfortunately this British author passed away in 1993. I hope this is a good book and I'm sorry I ended on sort of a bum-you out kind of note but hey, the weather is getting warm so that's pretty great right? go outside, shoot some hoops or something I don't care what you do but enjoy the weather. I see you in my next blog, that is, if I'm not chilling outside.

Finished Incarceron

     Well as the title suggests, I have just finished Incarceron. woo go team. Anyway, I know my last blog was a little harsh on the book but I now realize I couldn't have been more wrong. the last 60-ish pages are amazing. The separate story lines get closer and closer together until there is only one large story when all of the characters collide. It is petty cool to see all of the characters from two completely separate worlds come together and to see how different they are. And who can forget plot twists. The ending of this book has surprises a plenty and you will end up with your brain in a pretzel of awesome. Everything gets cleared up but not everything is wrapped up. And that is what leads me to my next point

     What am i going to read next? Well I am probably going to read the sequel to Incarceron, Saphique. I feel like after that ending, I have to read the sequel. Maybe then I can find out what happens to Incarceron, and to the outside world. To put it blatantly, I am pumped to read Saphique and I cant wait to get it. If i can that is. What with the library being closed I don't know if i can get it right away, so who knows. Anyway that's my blog for this week I didn't want to spoil the ending in case you want to read it so, uh, ya that about wraps it up for the day. Hopefully I'll have the book by next weeks blog. Adios.

Warning: Spoilers Within

     Well I just got back from reading Incarceron and my brain is hurting. I just got to the major plot twist in the book and all I can say is wow. A prison that is alive and moves all the time is crazy enough but this, is just flat out ridiculous. I just found out that Incarceron is actually microscopic. People are shrunk down and then imprisoned so even if they did escaped it would not matter because the criminals would be too small to cause any harm. Jared was looking at some metal he took off of a gate that was believed to be Incarercon's entrance and what he say was a tiny zoo full of tiny animals. Specifically tiny lions. I am not 100% sure how I feel about this but I'm leaning towards being annoyed. It is kind of ridiculous. I mean really, a world full of people forced to act like they live in the 1700's that has lasers and giant palaces of glass and also has a microscopic, self-aware prison that moves and shifts its interior as well as makes robotic animals and cyborg people. It is a little too much for me. Some people might like this but personally, I don't think I do. Oh, and if that doesn't bother you, the inmates have a giant silver flying boat.

     Up until this the book was pretty good but know it is just falling apart by just being to confusing and ridiculous. I am pretty bummed out because I was pretty excited to read this book but it ended up to be a disappointment. Sorry if you like this book but this blog is just my opinion about the book. My negative, harsh opinion. I don't want to be a pessimist so I'll say i hope it gets better. But it probably wont this late in the book. I'm going to keep reading this book anyway in hope that it gets better but I don't know if it will. By the way you shouldn't be deterred from this book based on what I think it is still a good book. If you need something to comment about, let me know what you think about the Micro-Prison.