Power

I think in The Lord of the Flies, Jack has the most power. Jack took control by instilling promises of good food, and fear. He keeps his followers in his tribe by giving them the food they want, and punishing the ones who don't(stealing Piggy's glasses, killing Piggy, threatening to kill Ralph). I think the power structure isn't destroyed until the boys get rescued because Jack then doesn't need all that power anymore. I think it isn't destroyed because people fear him, they know he'll kill if he has too, and that scares people. In The Power of One the nazi's definitely are in control. They took control because of the war going on, and Hitler being their leader. They maintained their control through terror and fear. For example at the prison with all the Africans, you saw the Germans beating them and killing them. All it took was not answering a question, or not looking them in the eyes. Others saw the germans killing Africans and they were afraid for their own lives. I think the power structure is maintained so long as Hitler, and the Germans are in power. These days we look at Africans as equals so the power the germans has obviously been destroyed.

Passage 4 February 12th

A symbol in passage 4 is Jack's face mask."He knelt, holding the shell of water. A rounded patch of sunlight fell on his face and a brightness appeared in the depths of the water. He looked in astonishment, no longer at himself but at an awesome stranger. He spilt the water and leapt to his feet, laughing excitedly. Beside the pool his sinewy body held up a mask that drew their eyes and appalled them. He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling." The effect this symbol has on the text would be that were starting to see jack's eviler side. When he starts to change the way he looks, he starts changing the way he acts. He looses touch with reality, and the inner animal comes out. Golding wisely choose words such as bloodthirsty snarling to convey the image of an animal. The theme then comes down to in nature humans act differently for survival.

Passage 1...Wednesday 2/8

In this passage I think you get a sense of characterization. The boys found a pig caught in some thorns, which gave them a perfect opportunity to kill it. However When Jack got his knife, he couldn't bring himself to kill it. When the pig gets away Jack tries to come up with a reasons why he didn't get to kill it. From this we figure out that he gets scared like everyone else,  and that he doesn't like to look weak. "He raised his arm in the air. There came a pause, a hiatus, the pig continued to scream and the creepers to jerk, and the blade continued to flash at the end of a bony arm." and "I was choosing a place,” said Jack. “I was just waiting for a moment to decide where to stab him.”" then they point out why he hadn't done it, "They knew very well why he hadn’t: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood." The effect of characterization on a book is that you get to know a certain person well. The effect of that is you get to see and understand why that person does what he does, why did they just say that, why did they just do that, you learn about that character.