Harry Potter Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

Response for "Introduction: How'd He Do That?"

Memory, Symbol and Patterns allows us as readers to, in addition to understanding the storyline on the surface, grasp the deeper concepts and themes of a piece of literature. Specifically in more complicated literature, we often turn to symbols and patterns to help us understand who the character is, why things happen, what the big picture is. Furthermore recognizing symbols and patterns aid us in making connections to other books and real-life, and in predicting the ending of a book. In the novel Lord of The Flies, an important symbol was Piggy's glasses. These glasses represented intelligence and wisdom as they were used to light the fire at the top of the mountain. I used to think teachers

were overanalyzing books when they talked about seemingly miniscule details such as why glasses were used to light the fire. If they asked me why, I would answer with “because they had nothing else to use?" However it was only after realizing what the glasses meant did the destruction of them have meaning. It represented how much the boys lost their sense of civilization and intelligence, and how much they've grown to be more savage-like.

Response for "Chapter 1: Every Trip is a Quest (Except When It's Not)"

The 5 aspects of QUEST are
a) A quester
b) A destination
c) A reason to go there
d) Challenges along the way
e) The true reason of why they must go there

In the novel Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone and the rest of the books in the novel the "quester" is Harry.

The destination that he must go to is Hogwarts and his reason is he wants to unlock the magic that he was born with. He wants to know what he can do with the magic that he has been forbidden to use all his life and to meet people that are just like him and perhaps not feel as alone as he has his whole life. The challenges he faced were getting away from the Dursley family. However throughout his journey, many people were in awe of him and he learned of his history and how he received his scar. Upon arriving at Hogwarts, it became evident to Harry that he must go to Hogwarts to learn how to defeat the Dark

Lord.

Response for "Chapter 2: Nice to Eat with You: Acts of Communion"

According to this chapter of the book when a group of people eat together it is considered a communion. The author explains that eating is such a personal act that eating with another person is like forming a community since you trust them enough to eat with them. In the book Lord of the Flies Jack creates a feast with the pig that he captured. He invites all of the boys and they come under this sort of trance. They used to be divided by boys who just wanted to be savages and boys who seemed to still have some civilization. However with this feast everyone comes together and they become savages together.

Response for "Chapter 3: Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires"

Essentially a vampire story is when an older male figure symbolizing corruption takes away the youth of a young virgin female. By stripping away her youth the old male can continue to live and eventually the young female dies.
An example of this is found in the novel Twilight. The male figure is Edward Cullen and being that he is 100+ years old he is also technically an older male figure. He is corrupted as he is a vampire and it is within him to view humans as a source of food. He strips Bella, the young virgin female, of her youth as she is forced to make a decision to stay 17 forever to be with him. Edward Cullen is unable to live without Bella and Bella is unable to live without Edward, the classic teenage romance story and eventually Bella "dies" so that they can continue to live together forever.

Response for "Chapter 4: If It's Square, It's a Sonnet"

I’m not too familiar with sonnets. I've only heard of Shakespearean sonnets and Petrarchan and I believe we read some in English class. I know that sonnets are usually 14 lines long and in a Petrarchan sonnets first 8 lines are in the abbaabba rhyming scheme and the rest can vary. These facts are very random and all that I could remember from my English class which is very bad. I hope to further explore sonnets in this upcoming year and learn to fully appreciate one.

Response for "Chapter 5: Now, Where Have I Seen Her Before?"

Intertextuality is when pieces of literature have similar themes, plot lines or specific details. Nothing is ever really a coincidence and it's common to find something from one book shown almost the exact same way in another book.

Intertextuality between the novels Hunger Games and Divergent is evident as both novels tell of a story in a dystopian setting. Both novels have a female protagonist who rebels against the government and gathers an army to fight alongside her. Being able to notice these similarities helped me to understand the characters more, to understand their motives and to make predictions as to how the stories would end. It also helped me to make connections between both dystopian worlds to figure out the underlying themes that can be connected to our world today

Intertextuality is also found between the story of Pyramus and Thisbe and the play Romeo and Juliet.

Both stories tell of forbidden lovers who made plans to run away together. In both stories, their plans sadly failed due to misunderstandings and resulted in their deaths. The two stories are almost exact replicas of each other. It helped to understand where Shakespeare might have gotten his inspiration from and it also helped to see the story told in 2 different ways. It allowed us as readers to grasp this tragedy in a play and in a myth.

Response to "Chapter 6: When in Doubt, It's from Shakespeare"

a) Writers use and quote Shakespeare because he is widely recognized and appreciated. This allows for their work to appeal to everyone who has just heard of Shakespeare. Shakespeare's works are so famous that you don't even necessarily need to read his plays to understand what they're about. Quotes from his famous works are so commonly used that they've become almost cliché. "To be, or not to be, that is the question" or "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers"

b) A famous movie The West Side Story alludes to the themes of Romeo and Juliet. Both stories include forbidden love due to conflicts within their close circles. Everyone tries to break the lovers Maria and Tony apart and ultimately it ends with death. Although Romeo and Juliet ended with both of them dying, The West Side story ends with (spoiler spoiler spoiler) just Tony

dying.

Response to "Chapter 7: Or the Bible"

a) Biblical allusions allow for writers to have intertextuality in their writings. Many writers are inspired by the stories told in the bible that highlight themes such as loss of innocence. However many writers go to the bible for a good title, a title that is eye catching such as "East of Eden" or "Tongues of Fire" (these are examples from the book). Poets specifically often go to the bible for inspiration and quotations.

b) A book filled with biblical allusions would be Go Tell it On the Mountain by James Baldwin. The whole novel is centered on this family whose life revolves around the church since the father is the preacher. I think that the biblical allusions helped readers to really dive into this world that they live in. Although the book was really based on family the allusions to the bible like in the names and in the chapter title highlighted the Christianity aspect of the book as well. How To Read like a Professor mentions something about loss of innocence, and that's found in many characters specifically Gabriel, who becomes corrupted, and loses his way. Being that his name is Gabriel, which is an angel, and messenger of God, he is supposed to be spreading Gods word and following it but the fact that he himself cannot highlights the loss of innocence in his character.