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The boys have crashed their plane- Wilderness Survival Assignment

The boys have crashed their plane- Wilderness Survival Assignment. Plane simulation exercise All pilot/adults are dead. You have 15 minutes to create a plan and leadership. What will you do????. List with a partner in order of necessity and explain purpose for each. Waterproof matches

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The boys have crashed their plane- Wilderness Survival Assignment

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  1. The boys have crashed their plane- Wilderness Survival Assignment • Plane simulation exercise • All pilot/adults are dead. You have 15 minutes to create a plan and leadership. What will you do????

  2. List with a partner in order of necessity and explain purpose for each. • Waterproof matches • Fire starter • Rigid blade knife • saw • Compass • Map of the area • Signal mirror • Flashlight • Plastic tarp • First aid kit • Coins for pay phones • canteen Emergency food rations • Water purification tablets/filter • Fish hooks and fishing line • Police whistle • Toilet paper

  3. Lord of the Flies1954 Introduction and Background

  4. Title Translation “Beelzebub” a Hebrew word for LUCIFER However, the literal translation of “Beelzebub” into English is LORD OF THE FLIES

  5. L.O.T.F Author William Golding Born in Britain 1911-1993

  6. Born September 19, 1911 in Cornwall, England • Raised next to a graveyard • Mother, Mildred, active suffragette who fought for women’s right to vote • Father, Alex, was a schoolmaster • Early education at the school his father taught at, Marlborough Grammar School • Age 12- unsuccessfully attempted to write a novel • Bullied his peers “I enjoyed hurting people”

  7. Attended Oxford University, opted for English literature • 1934- published 1st work, a book of poetry entitled Poems. Overlooked by critics. • After college, worked in settlement houses and theater for a time. • 1935- took a teaching position. Experience teaching unruly boys inspired is novel LofF. • 1940- abandoned the profession to join the Royal Navy and fight in WWII.

  8. Six years on a boat in the Royal Navy • Developed love for sailing and the sea • Placed in command of a rocket-launching craft “I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.” • Fought battleships, submarines and planes • 1945- returned to teaching and writing • 1954- rejected 21x, published LofF

  9. WWII Korean War In the decade before LOTF was published, Britain had been involved in two wars:

  10. As a child, Golding had witnessed WWI, which was referred to as “the war to end all wars” HOWEVER, 22 years later Britain was again involved in ANOTHER WAR to end all wars, which caused more devastation than was imaginable

  11. Through LOTF, Golding is making the statement that we cannot escape our savage, violent tendencies…

  12. …and without social order,we devolve into a state of chaos

  13. “Allegory” by Thomas Hood I had a gig-horse, and I called him Pleasure Because on Sundays for a little jaunt He was so fast and showy, quite a treasure; Although he sometimes kicked and shied aslant. I had a chaise, and christened it Enjoyment, With yellow body and the wheels of red, Because it was only used for one employment, Namely, to go wherever Pleasure led. I had a wife, her nickname was Delight: A son called Frolic, who was never still: Alas! how often dark succeeds to bright! Delight was thrown, and Frolic had a spill, Enjoyment was upset and shattered quite, And Pleasure fell a splitter on Paine's Hill

  14. LOTF Symbols(Objects, characters, figures, or colors that represent ideas or concepts) Piggy’s Glasses = The last surviving evidence of the lawful, structured world REASON and LOGIC Conch Shell = New democracy on the island LAW and ORDER Beast = Evil…reference to the serpent in the garden of Eden SAVAGERY

  15. Important Symbols • Butterflies= goodness and harmony with nature • Lord of the Flies = A pig’s head on a stick that becomes the physical acceptance of evil and chaos on the island • Parachutist- adult supervision • Masks/face paint- loss of civilization; new identity

  16. The Platform: Government; order • The plane crash: breakdown of modern society • The boys: Ralph and Piggy: goodness; order Jack and Roger: evil/devil himself • Big kids: Ruling class • Littluns: commoners • Fire: technology out of control; atom bomb • Smoke: comfort, safety, rescue

  17. Symbols (cont’d) • Signal Fire- hope and reason • Island- Paradise at first (Edenic isolation

  18. Adults- civilization, rules, order [lack of adult supervision on the island represents the lack of above] • The Scar- paradise/man’s corruption; biblical allusion to The Garden • Jack v Ralph- Cold War “who is more powerful” concept/competitiveness

  19. Symbols, cont’d. • Ralph- Winston Churchill, Britain’s Prime Minister • Roger- Nazi Leader Heinrich Himmler, chief SS officer/also considered symbolic of Stalin (Russia) and/or Mussolini (Italy) • Killing of “the beast”- Kristelnacht “night of broken glass”

  20. Jack = Hitler • Hitler promised Germans food- Jack promises meat • Hitler promised better life- Jack would help the monotony of building shelters/fun • Hitler blamed the Jews, Jack blamed the beast • Simon- Christ Figure; biblical allusion Piggy- the Jews

  21. TERMS to REMEMBER • Microcosm = A small world that represents the world at large • Edenic =Eden like, paradise like, a setting that has not yet been spoiled by man

  22. Character Analysis • Ralph ~ Main character described as “fair haired,” having “broad shoulders…[like a] boxer’s,” and has a face that “proclaims no devil” • (Churchill) Committed to civilization and morality Translation = GOOD

  23. Character Analysis • Piggy \ Described as “fat,” “intellectual,” asthmatic, and needs glasses • (Jews of WWII) Represents scientific, rational side of civilization, and social order

  24. Jack ~ Described as having red hair, wears black with a snake clasp, ugly Cruel and manipulative Represents our savage instincts playedout ( HITLER) EVIL Character Analysis

  25. Simon ~ Described as a skinny, vivid little boy, who “meditates;” and he faints, which some cultures have believed is a sign of connecting with the spiritual world (Christ figure) Seems to be connected with nature, and he has an innate, spiritual goodness Character Analysis

  26. Roger ~ “Silent” and sadistic Mussolini Targets the “littluns” The only one to premeditate murder Kills without conscience Pure evil Character Analysis

  27. Sam and Eric (Samneric) ~ Twins Described as barely having enough skin to cover both, bullet-headed, and they finish each other’s sentences The last to remain loyal to Ralph Represent the tug-of-war within us to remain good Character Analysis

  28. “Littluns” ~ The younger kids Represent the common folk, who easily follow the lead of others into savagery when there is no enforced structure in society Character Analysis

  29. Setting Time: ~1950s, after some sort of atomic warfare has taken place Place: A tiny, previously uninhabited coral island in the South Pacific. The children have crash-landed here after their plane was shot down while they were on some sort of trip with their schools.

  30. The island- setting • Microcosm for all of humanity

  31. A group of English boys are deserted on an island after their plane has been shot down in WWII

  32. Setting Analysis – 16 min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2XwiBuFV4s

  33. Themes • Moral Degeneration • Descent into Savagery • Human Nature • Civilization • Spirituality and Religion • Survival of the Fittest “Weak v Strong”

  34. Is it a coincidence that the only type of female in the story is the sows? Does it have some significance in the plot that those pigs are treated that way? • Yes! • Ch. 4 + 8 • From the way Golding describes the incident, the attack seems almost sexual in nature. • WW2 historical allusion- • Sexual war crime violence • Purpose? Discuss

  35. LOTF in Popular Culture • English heavy metal band Iron Maiden composed a song about the novel. The song "Lord of The Flies" can be found on The X Factor (1995). • Lord of the Flies served as the inspiration for Sunrise Animation's classic anime series Infinite Ryvius. • It is claimed that Mark Burnett's Survivor reality TV series was inspired by the novel.

  36. LOTF in Popular Culture • It has been speculated that the Nine Inch Nails song "Piggy" is Trent Reznor's vision of a conversation from chapter 8 in the novel. • People have found many similarities between Lord of the Flies and the television show Lost, andcharacters Sawyer and Charlie make references to Lord of the Flies.

  37. LOTF in Popular Culture • Stephen King has stated that the Castle Rock in Lord of the Flies was the inspiration for the town of the same name that has appeared in a number of his novels. The book itself also appears prominently in his novels, Hearts In Atlantis and Cujo. • An episode of The Simpsons titled "Das Bus" was a parody of Lord of the Flies, mirroring it in many ways.

  38. McCarthyism

  39. Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka

  40. Auschwitz-Birkenau

  41. Majdanek

  42. Cold War History: Nuclear Deterrence

  43. Cold War Bomb Shelters

  44. Gas Masks WWII- general

  45. Child’s Gas Masks WWII

  46. Chapter One Vocabularyfind the word in the book, highlight and define in margin • 1. Efflorescence • 2. Effulgence • 3. Enmity • 4. Decorous • 5. Chorister • 6. Bastion • 7. Hiatus

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