Friday, 9 December 2011

Post 8 The Ordinary World

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I am currently reading Lord of the Flies by William Golding.The story of Lord of the Flies is when many young boys are stranded on an island after a crash. The boys start to develop a society of their own, so some boys hunt, some help make shelter and then there is one boy who is the leader. The leaders name is Ralph, he was voted in by the rest of the boys because he had good leader ship skills. The hunters are a group of boys that are a Choir, and their leader is named  Jack. Jack seems to be very controlling and wants to be the leader instead of Ralph. Finally there is a character named Piggy and he and Ralph were the first ones that were introduced to the story, and Piggy is a very foolish boy that is described as fat. He looks up to Ralph and assists him as well. 

These boys all have an ordinary world that seems to somewhere in Great Britain because they all speak with a British accent. I'm not too sure where they all come from because no one has described about their ordinary world except for two characters Ralph and Piggy. Piggy sounds like that his parents have died and he lives with his Aunt, that is all that is said Piggy's home life that he lives with his Aunt. Ralph on the other hand had a dream about his home life, and it sounds like Ralph lives on a farm or with a rich family because the narrator describes that in his dream he is feeding horses and someone telling him to come for tea. 


Old English Farm - Witherslack, Cumbria
  
"Ralph was dreaming. He had fallen asleep after what seemed hours of tossing and turning nosily among the dry leaves. Even the sounds of nightmare from the other shelters no longer reached him, for he was back where he came from, feeding the ponies with sugar over the garden wall. Then someone was shaking his arm, telling him that it was time for tea." 

From what the narrator just described I think that Ralph comes from a good Family with lots of money and they live on the country side. I'm guessing that Ralph was going on a trip with his parents when they crashed and he was separated from his Parents. That is why I think Ralph left his ordinary world, so he could go on a trip with his parents, but something tragic had to happen now he is left on an island with boys he's never met before trying to survive.

Saturday, 3 December 2011

Post 7 Free choice

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Is the Star Crossed Lovers an act? Does Peeta really love Katniss? Does Katniss love Peeta back? Before the games started Peeta said while being interviewed he had a crush on Katniss, and when Peeta said that it got them a lot of sponsors for the games. Katniss' and Peeta's mentor for the games said to go with it so they can get lots of sponsors. Currently in the book Katniss has found Peeta and they are starting to act as if they love each other. I believe that Peeta really does love Katniss because he remembered the first day of school when they were five, when he feel in love with her. Although i don't think that Katniss loves Peeta because she keeps reminding herself that it is all just an act and she can her in head her mentor saying to keep it up while she kisses Peeta. Personally I don't want Katniss to love Peeta because he so untrustworthy and he is just wrong for her, even when I read the parts where they kiss it feels awkward and out of the ordinary because you know it's all just an act.

If you are interested this is the trailer for the movie of The Hunger Games that comes out in March.