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     For the last three years my of my life, I have been watching the "The Flash." This show goes through the life of Barry Allen (aka the Flash) and his adventures fighting crime in central city. The show has an episodic plot, so every episode they find and fight a new villain. The also has a kind of super villain that they must defeat at the end of every season. The villain at the end of last season was Savitar, a speedster who wants to destroy Barry. Tucker and I have developed a cult following of this show. Every Tuesday the show is on, we will have pizza and watch the show. We always have a good time.      In school, we have always taken about different elements of plot such as foreshadowing. "The Flash" also contains a lot of these devices. I find it interesting to see the difference between these in book and in a more visual platform. For foreshadowing especially, in books, the foreshadowing in done in a much more subtle manner than in the show. Som...

     In Lord of the Flies , Golding displays the physical island that the boys are on as slowly deteriorating and being destroyed by the boys to mirror the downward spiral of the boys’ society. This is supported by the text in many ways. For example, the narrator states, "Beneath the capering boys a quarter of a mile square of forest was savage with smoke and flame" (p. 45). At this point, the boys started getting into arguments about what should be happening on island. The relationship between Piggy and Jack also starts crumbling. During this fire, the kid with the mulberry birthmark also disappears. All of the things happening around this point show similarities between the state of the island and the downward spiral of the boys' society.

LOTF Reading Response: Saad Symbolism: Evan

" The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.  Once there was this and that; and now--and the ship had gone. [... Jack refusing to give Piggy the floor when he has the conch...] "The rules!" shouted Ralph.  "You're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?" Ralph summoned his wits. "Because the rules are the only thing we've got!" But Jack was shouting against him. "Bollocks to the rules!  We're strong--we hunt!  If there's a beast, we'll hunt it down!  We'll close in and beat and beat and beat--!" (91)"       This is a key passage in Lord of the Flies for several reasons. It is interesting how the passage goes. At the beginning, this passage is the assembly after the ship has passed and Ralph is mad at Jack.  The passage starts with a statement from the narrator saying that the children's little society is breaking down. This statement sets the overall trend for the rest of the en...

     "I'm alive!" said a little kid on the playground. All he ever did was slide down the slide and climb the monkey bars.      "How do you know that?" said another kid inspecting ants on the ground.      "I just know." answered the kid in frustration.      "If you can't prove that your alive, then how are you alive?" inquired the other kid.      "I'm Jack. What's your name?" Jack was trying to deflect his question.      The other boy picked up on this. "Ahh, trying to deflect my question. That's alright. I'm Carter."      "Carter, has anyone ever told you that you ask way to many questions?" asked Jack.      "Yes," answered Carter, "But the more questions I ask, the more I can understand."      "Alright," Jack replied, "But don't you think that you have to take somethings for granted like that you are alive?" Jack moved ever so close...

Lord of the Flies: Reading Response: Katherine Vocabulary free post: Tucker

     Star Wars is one of my favorite fictional universes. It explores the interesting world of space travels and evil ruling organization. There are many more avid fans of this series than just myself. Many fans get into altercations about how aspects of the universe should be interpreted. One of the age old debates is how canon and non-canon books should be interpreted. Many people just throw out the non-canon books because they have no effect of the canon  universe, but they still interpret many ideas that the canon  universe hasn't answered yet. I have read some of the non-canon texts and I find them very fun to read.      Another argument many people get into is a massive plot hole: why are the Rebels rebelling against the empire. At face value, there isn't anything that they Empire is doing that is morally wrong or discriminatory. Therefore, there shouldn't be scruples  against the Empire form the Rebels. The only point I see you could ...

     Over the past few weeks, I have been reading William Golding's Lord of the Flies . I find it very enjoyable to read, and a few things have piqued by interest. The first thing that piqued my interest was the way these children adapt to the island. In this novel, a bunch of boys get stranded on a uninhabited island. The first thing the boys do is decide who should be chief. This seems logical in all, but I don't understand why nobody is freaking out except for Piggy. It doesn't make sense. It also seems like a few weeks pass before they even start making some sort of shelter. That seems like priority number one to me.       Another thing in the book I found interesting was the relationship between Jack and Ralph. Jack is the leader of the choir/hunter group that is dropped on the island. Ralph is just a typical boy, except he is better looking and bigger than the rest of them. Their relationship starts as we're going to be good friends and let's have fu...