1. "Then Jack found the throat and the hot blood spouted over his hands"(120). This event of the killing of the pig changed the symbol of the Lord of the Flies majorly by how the pig was killed and, in turn, how violent and vicious that the boys have become. Making something so innocent and free to brutally dead in such a violent manner with unnecessary and grotesque force just goes to prove how wrong and evil the boys are inside and how far they’ve gone from the lost boys on the island in the beginning.
2. Jack "jammed the soft throat down on the pointed end of the stick which pierced through into the mouth" (122). Giving the head of the pig as a sacrifice to the “beast” alludes to how Jack wants to kill Ralph and give him away as an additional offering later in the novel. This is a major change for the symbol because it’s illustrating how they think the “beast” is something that the boys feel needs appeasing to. When Jack orders a stick to be sharpened at both ends he knows that he wants to offer the head to the beast. He does this violently, much like how he does most other things; with unnecessary force.
3. “Nothing prospered but the flies who blackened their lord and made the spilt guts look like a heap of glistening coal.”(129) The sows head is also an allusion to how all of mankind kills things (like earth) because we all have evil inside of us, and if we become uncivilized the evil will come out. Black running between its teeth is a symbol of evil spreading throughout its head like how evil grows within the children turning them from innocent school children to uncivilized savages. This is a major change to the character/symbol because it shows how the head is a symbol of evil by it never fully going away and how it is unpleasant and disgusting just like how we think about evil. It changes the way we think about the character/symbol by it getting more disgusting and repulsive every day, and how the rotting flesh smell and appearance gets significantly worse every day just like the growing of evil in the children.
4.“I'm warning you. I'm going to get angry. D'you see? You're not wanted. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island! So don't try it on, my poor misguided boy, or else”— (143) The pig's head talks to Simon because Simon is an innocent boy and the most innocent on the island. In The Lord of the Flies, Simon represents a Jesus like figure, and the Pig represents Satan. “Lord of The Flies actually translates to “bee-EL-zə-bub”, or the biblical reference to Satan. The pig's head is not exactly talking to him though; the lord of the flies is the evil conscious in Simon's head. This is the most important major scene in the novel and further indicates that no matter how innocent a person is, there is always an evil consciousness that controls the actions of every person. This majorly changes the character/symbol because it is going to the next level of evil - The most innocent child believes the Pigs head is communicating with him, telling him what to do and foreshadowing Simon’s death.
5. Ralph finding it -- Simon’s interaction with the Lord of the Flies is not the last time we get to feel its presence. “He walked slowly into the middle of the clearing and looked steadily at the skull that gleamed as white as ever the conch had done and seemed to jeer at him cynically” (167). This is a minor change, as we already know how evil the lord was, but it is a change because now Ralph is aware of it too. Ralph sees it and instantly knows that there’s something very wrong and evil with it. Even when he knocks it down because of the looks it is giving him, the thing is still described with its “grin now six feet across” (167). Being as harmless as a broken bone on the ground its still shown as something powerful and malevolent.
Met all criteria, 9/9.
Chase Guthrie, Dmitry Smith and James Thomas Les Scores Defining Moments - 2 Quotes - 3 Presentation - 2
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1. "Then Jack found the throat and the hot blood spouted over his hands"(120). This event of the killing of the pig changed the symbol of the Lord of the Flies majorly by how the pig was killed and, in turn, how violent and vicious that the boys have become. Making something so innocent and free to brutally dead in such a violent manner with unnecessary and grotesque force just goes to prove how wrong and evil the boys are inside and how far they’ve gone from the lost boys on the island in the beginning.
2. Jack "jammed the soft throat down on the pointed end of the stick which pierced through into the mouth" (122). Giving the head of the pig as a sacrifice to the “beast” alludes to how Jack wants to kill Ralph and give him away as an additional offering later in the novel. This is a major change for the symbol because it’s illustrating how they think the “beast” is something that the boys feel needs appeasing to. When Jack orders a stick to be sharpened at both ends he knows that he wants to offer the head to the beast. He does this violently, much like how he does most other things; with unnecessary force.
3. “Nothing prospered but the flies who blackened their lord and made the spilt guts look like a heap of glistening coal.”(129)
The sows head is also an allusion to how all of mankind kills things (like earth) because we all have evil inside of us, and if we become uncivilized the evil will come out. Black running between its teeth is a symbol of evil spreading throughout its head like how evil grows within the children turning them from innocent school children to uncivilized savages. This is a major change to the character/symbol because it shows how the head is a symbol of evil by it never fully going away and how it is unpleasant and disgusting just like how we think about evil. It changes the way we think about the character/symbol by it getting more disgusting and repulsive every day, and how the rotting flesh smell and appearance gets significantly worse every day just like the growing of evil in the children.
4. “I'm warning you. I'm going to get angry. D'you see? You're not wanted. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island! So don't try it on, my poor misguided boy, or else”— (143)
The pig's head talks to Simon because Simon is an innocent boy and the most innocent on the island. In The Lord of the Flies, Simon represents a Jesus like figure, and the Pig represents Satan. “Lord of The Flies actually translates to “bee-EL-zə-bub”, or the biblical reference to Satan. The pig's head is not exactly talking to him though; the lord of the flies is the evil conscious in Simon's head. This is the most important major scene in the novel and further indicates that no matter how innocent a person is, there is always an evil consciousness that controls the actions of every person. This majorly changes the character/symbol because it is going to the next level of evil - The most innocent child believes the Pigs head is communicating with him, telling him what to do and foreshadowing Simon’s death.
5. Ralph finding it -- Simon’s interaction with the Lord of the Flies is not the last time we get to feel its presence. “He walked slowly into the middle of the clearing and looked steadily at the skull that gleamed as white as ever the conch had done and seemed to jeer at him cynically” (167). This is a minor change, as we already know how evil the lord was, but it is a change because now Ralph is aware of it too. Ralph sees it and instantly knows that there’s something very wrong and evil with it. Even when he knocks it down because of the looks it is giving him, the thing is still described with its “grin now six feet across” (167). Being as harmless as a broken bone on the ground its still shown as something powerful and malevolent.
Met all criteria, 9/9.
Chase Guthrie, Dmitry Smith and James Thomas
Les Scores
Defining Moments - 2
Quotes - 3
Presentation - 2
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