Reading Focus

My reading focus for "Lord of The Flies" is Physical Setting. Now I was happy with this selection due to the amounts of different environments and habitats on the island, but so far the different elements have become very repetitive. At the beginning of the book there is an established theme of the color green. Except it was not only used to describe the typical grass and leaves but it was used in many other different, sometimes strange ways: "Ralph hauled himself onto this platform, noted the coolness and shade, shut one eye, and decided that the shadows on his body were really green." and also another usage on that same page where Piggy stared at Ralph's green and white body. Which drew questions into my mind, many of them commonly followed the theme of "why?" This is just the first of many little hints of color importance and repetition that are in the story. Also before this there was mentioning of somethings green feathers a hundred feet into the air, which I also found strange. Everything seems very strange to me as to why this exact color, and I am still trying to find connections in the story that might revel the reasoning for this. The next "Big Thing" that I have been focusing on the the mountain of pink granite. At numerous points in the text the color pink has been stressed as important color and significant factor in the setting. The first hints of pink come with talk about the conch and the mountain:   "Some act of god-a typhoon perhaps, or the storm that accompanied his own arrival-had banked sand inside the lagoon so that there was a long, deep pool in the beach with a high ledge of pink granite at the further end." The common reoccurrence of pink once again leaves questions of why? And the purpose of each, but we can detour one of the meanings when it is described as the conch fading and becoming white. Later relating it to some symbolistic themes. Finally, Ive still been looking for that big important factor of setting to come around, but I still have been focusing on new occurring colors like blue and white, as well as the differences between the two camp sites; focusing on the conditions, security, and overall environment of the two.

Finally, a quick reading response and analysis for LOTF. To be quite frank with everyone I am thoroughly surprised that these children have survived as long as they have with out dying, starving to death, killing each other, or falling off the mountain. I am actually VERY surprised and commend them  on their luck! As you all know (if your still awake after reading that LONG passage above) my reading focus is Physical Setting. So far (as you all know) I've found some pretty cool connections from the text. Now I thought I would debunk some of them that also relate to different aspects of literary elements. The first one I though was cool was the fading of the conch. As we all know the BIG colors are green, pink, and recently now some new ones are white and blue. Also the conch contains a few of these colors. Which is a cool coincidence, but what I found really cool was just as the beginnings of destruction and seperation in the tribe happened the conch faded and lost all of its color. Which, what I think, is the author giving us little fun things to find and connect everything to, keeping our minds sharp and locked onto the text. As you all know (once again... I should really stop starting a sentence with that) Simon was murdered and is now dead at the hands of... well.. a lot of people. Therefore leaving our "pathway" to communication with the devil/Lord of The Flies gone. Supposedly we are in for more surprises and excitement ahead, so get ready because the end of the book is coming very fast and when it gets here I think something BIG is join to happen. (Thats not a hint to whats going to happen at the end of the book, I have no clue I swear so don't think that the ending is really controversial because I have read the book before or something. I honestly don't know.)

Reading Times:
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