Response to the Scarlet Ibis

I feel that the stoy ended with a positive message. Or at least for me it did. Doodle was so sad all the time, and most of the things he did was sad, like say "don't leave me brother!" out in the rain. But the fact that Doodle died at the end, was kind of positive for me. He was, indirectly, put out of his misery. He would never have a normal life. He would be made fun of and/or beaten up at school for his disability. He would cry and he would be depressed at the fact that he would never be like the kids at his school. So the fact that he was killed in the end was probably for the best. Doodle however was sad, and abandoned, and died from his disease. That event cannot be sad though. It was inevitable from birth that Doodle would die. In the end,  I found the story happily ending.

Villain

I think my favorite villain would be the computer from Eagle Eye. The computer, or ARIA, is a defense system for the world in case the president was killed along with every other person in congress. She communicates with two people, and tells them to do certain things, like "Get into the Porsche and drive", or my favorite "Lay flat on the floor now. Your escape is being recalculated." She can connect to any electronic object from a cellphone, to a cargo plane, to a subway tram.  She is a great villain because she can connect to and control anything electronic. Her motivation is to kill the president, leaving an open space for another president, so she can have full access in all electronics, so she can "Protect the Earth". The runner-up president activated the plan coded "Failsafe" so he could become president. ARIA tends to cause a huge mess, like when she crashes a crane into the police department, but she never gets discovered, until the end. ARIA looks like a giant mechanical eye on a moving platform.

Comment on Poetry Out Loud

Poetry Out Loud. What can I say? Everyone was great. They all did a great job with their reading and memorization. I especially liked The one girl who sang during her poem. Or her poem required her to sing. Either way, she shouldn't be reading poetry. She should be singing for the presidential choir! I don't even know if that is a reak thing, but that is how amazing she was. My point is, she was amazing and so was everyone else. I don't think I could, or many others at least, could do the same. I am very proud to be students in the same school as they are.

Jack's and Ralph's Ideas

Jack's idea of savegery and violence, and using fear to control is probably the way the world will end up. Even though I could be wrong, it is very likely. Ralphs ideas are better and more logical. But then again, what we decide on depends on what we define as logical. All of this goes back to the more recent blog entry, "What Golding thinks of the human nature". That means, what we define as logical depends on how we act throughout our whole lives. I think that eventually society will split in half with different opinions and thoughts and ideas. These different groups will most likely end up like Ralph and Jack. They would fight and argue to see who deserves control over both sides. It just doesn't work out. When Ralph was chased down by the rest of the island, he was saved by a marine officer. A third party. That probably means that third party leader will meet another third party leader and they will fight, leaving one group left. This cycle continues endlessly until nobody is left to take over. Then, that's when the worlds becomes savage and violent. In literal terms, the more savage side of society will attack first, and ask questions later. The sane side of society will try to reason with the unreasonable, leading in disaster. So in conclusion, even though people would like to have Ralphs ideas put in motion, they probably won't be.

Reflection on the Poetry out loud

I think personally that the poetry speakers had a lot of guts standing up in front of the whole school like that. I know I couldn't have done that. They also had to have memorized their whole poems. Again, something i could not have done very easily. I think the one girl who sang during her poem was the best by far out of all the other speakers. I do not remember her name, but I do remember the song. The poem really stuck emotionally. I loved when she spoke out in front of the whole school, and right when se started to sing, everyone gave her a standing ovation. I thought it was because they liked the poem, but it turned out, the crowd just thought she was done, and couldn't hear her over the clapping.

Golding's look at human nature

Golding's look on human nature cannot be normal in his eyes. Or her eyes. Whichever. He/she thinks that people, no matter what age, can become savages during the right conditions. Well, he/she is right. His/Her point in this book is that nobody is perfect. He/she emphasizes that point when at the beginning of the book, it is written that the kids were eing evacuated at the dawn of the next world war. Golding probably has or , or had a personal experience like this book describes. Or maybe, one of Goldings friends had an experience like this and was very intrigued and interested in the events.

Can we trust people to be good?

I think that if a group of people are stranded on an island with no threats, then I still think they would not survive. They have each other to fear. Plus, just because they HAVE food, doesn't mean they know where or what it is. A person could possibly go mentally insane permanently if they have to live with the same people for a long enough period of time. Also, if they begin to argue, they will be mad, and be angry, and then they will start to hurt each other possibly. Those wounds could, by some chance, give someone infections or make them bleed out. This could obviously lead to death. They would end up killing each other even though they have all the food and water they need! So to answer the question "can we trust people to be good", my answer is...No. I don't think we can trust people to be good on their own, especially 6-12 year olds. Since, in this case, they are not as mature as other people. They don't have much care for others' values, and do not know that much about the outside world probably. Although there are no living threats on the island, there are other threats such as lack of shelter, climate, drowning, and mosquitoes. Of course, I am thinking "worst-case-scenario", but you never know what will happen.