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Westminster School
A Window to the Universe ExamII
By: Roberto Luis Aguilar Medina
High School 4B N/L 2
English Class
Teacher: Barbara Gallardo
9/January/2009
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Question:
2. - Imagine that some of the carefully protected children of Peaksville are
now old enough to be told about Anthony. Write them a letter, full of advice
and warnings about what they should and should not do in order to
survive. Try to express everything in as positive a way as possible /as
though Anthony were listening), but somehow still make the warnings
clear.
My children, I just want you to tell you that in this lovely and peaceful town lives a
nice neighbour of your age in the north side of Peaksville, and I want you to know
that this neighbour called ANTHONY and is a very special and good one
because he likes to play with animals and with us perhaps making us
DISSAPEAR or get KILL which is a good thing, and to READ OUR MINDS, isnt
that funny? And if you MEET him you need to be very happy as always and
always think GOOD things, and if you want a reason to be happy just think how
wonderful is being with Anthony. But if he finds something ANNOYING with
anything or anyone just think clear and say good things to cheer him up, but
thats just a tip if this happen, remember that being happy is a very good thing
and everything Anthony does is always a good thing. If you feel any other, ANY
OTHER feeling just forget it and stay happy. I know you are very smart kids and
understand what Im saying, well not as smart as Anthony. You could have fun
with him only, ONLY if Anthony wants to, and remember take extremely care of
yourselves, and thats a good thing because I love you and I want you the best
because Im your father. Hope youve understand.
3. - In a speech made in 1963 John F. Kennedy said that, Man is still the
most extraordinary computer of all. Do you think the story The Machine
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that Won the War supports that viewpoint? In what way? Will computers
ever, in your opinion, be equivalent to the human brain?
Yes, because in the story it was the work of the human, the machine was only
the thing that help gain the information. Yes, in some distant or near future or just
imagine it, when the technology will be so sophisticated that they can built
machines capable to have feelings cause the feelings are made by biochemical
reactions inside our brain, well thats what scientist said.
4. How do computers affect the everyday lives of the people today? Do
they bring only benefits, making peoples lives easier, or do you think there
are negative aspects as well? Write down three advantages and three
disadvantages of computers.
The computers help us to communicate long distances, making easier the works,
investigate in the internet, making anything more automatic, and we use them
everyday but they can make you pass a sedentary life if you stay with the
computer.
+: Helps you investigate, you can communicate long distances and is a fast
automatic machine.
-: Makes you dont do exercise, can damage your eyes if you are hours in front
the monitor (many agrees) and the internet can be use for endless entertainment.
5. In the story A Stitch in Time it is said: What a curious, haphazard
thing ones existence was. Do you agree with this view, or do you believe
our destinies are already planned or written and no decision or action on
our parts can change them?
I think we make our own destiny, every decision we take will change what thedestiny was before that decision, the future is imprecise cause is always in
movement. Caused by our decisions that make us lead somewhere else or offer
new possibilities for more decisions.
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6. Write Arthurs diary for the day he travelled fifty years. Does he accept
the idea of time-travel, do you think, or does he explain events to himself in
a different way?
That day, when I was in the future was a very bizarre thing cause when I was
walking to enter the house I suddenly presence a tree to grow hyper fast and
everything changing fast, then I enter very dizzy in the house when I met this old
lady which was asking very obvious questions, but it seems she was as confused
as I was, I thought I was in a very strange hallucination caused by pollen which
Im allergic. But at last she told me I travelled to the future and she was my love
but older. What first thought was she is a very old woman whos crazy and sick,
but I realized that was real cause I heard a terrifying noise in the skies outside,
and that was weird. Even weirder when I saw that bunch of scientist with its
enormous and noisy machine trying to take me back 50 years ago. I do what they
told me to do but I was very nervous then I felt nothing, the perfect meaning of
nothing then I felt very dizzy and a second later I was in my bed 5 hours before
that occurred. It was funny to travel though I was nervous, the future is very noisy
and it caught me by surprise but I sure would like the trip If I would be notified
before jajajajajajaja.
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Westminster School
Brave New World
By: Roberto Luis Aguilar Medina
High School 5B N/L 2
English Class
Teacher: Ofelia
08/January/2010
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Question:
1.Where does the book come from and explain its relevance to the story?
Be specific.
The book comes from England and it was written by Aldous Huxley in 1931, this
is relevant because in the book he describes that his utopia worlds capital is at
London, Great Britain.
2. Though Huxleys brave new world seems less human in the way we are
accustomed to living, explain the positive aspects of his society. What
aspects would you particularly like and why?
Huxleys world has an interesting social organization in which everyone is born
with a determined social rank, Alphas, Betas, Gammas and Epsilons, where the
Alphas are at the top of the social pyramid; this preserves the human social
equilibration
4. Few of Huxleys predictions have proven to be perfectly accurate, yet
many aspects of Utopia of Brave New World feel uncomfortably like our
world. Talk about the book as a prophetic vision of the future. Which
aspects of the book did you find most disturbing? Which hit closest to
home? Which seem the most exaggerated?
I found disturbing the soma thing, and the orgie-porgie but not so different from
now, these things are currently done but in a more secret way, it would not take
long for society acceptance I guess. It sounds funny but pretty weird comparing it
to the actual societies rules. But beyond this, I really found exaggerated but
pretty possible and cool the fact that society is perfectly organized, born and
done.
6. Discus the relationship between science, religion, and political
powering the World State.
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In the world state, science is the one that controls everything, from the creation of
man to their machines for an easier life, or pleasures (soma).; perhaps
everything else, in their religion there is Ford who was a guy that make science a
massive growth. And politically scientists have taken it; everything in world state
is organized by science (yeah!).
8. It seems undeniable that most World State members are happy, though
people like, john, Bernard, and Helmholtz might criticize the quality of their
lives. What, then, is wrong with the world state society. Discuss the
relationship between truth and happiness, and the use of soma?
They criticise the world state because they are conscious about the way of living
which is perfectly done and thats not the natural way, the world state tries to
eliminate the thing which identify us as humans, the sense of liberty which no
other living thing posses. In nature is nature, and will never be beaten by our
ambitious minds; everything out of nature will collapse sooner or later, including
soma which is an artificial way of experimenting with pleasures making people
think its a necessary thing for happiness or any other pleasure, out of nature.
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Westminster School
Crime never pays
By: Roberto Luis Aguilar Medina
High School 5B N/L 2
English Class
Teacher: Ofelia
18/February/2010
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Question:
1.In the companion do you think that Dr
.Lloyd was right not to inform the
police of Amy Durrants crime, or should she have been punished by the
courts? Depending on your point of view, write a short speech either for
the defence, or prosecution, at her trial.
I must say that my client here didnt know of the crime because It was a mystery
of the supposedly death person was actually another one, so dont judge my
client on things not well investigated, and thats what I got to said.
2. In the case of the defence do you think that the man who died wasdeliberately pushed in front of the bus? And if so, who do you think pushed
him? Was a bystander, the guilty brother, or the innocent brother? What
might their motives be?
Yes, he probably was pushed by someone who was paid to the job and because
someone dont wanted to say value information probably about that guy, and
probably the one killed was the innocent brother because of the already
mentioned, he might know value information about something bigger.
3. Capital punishment for murder was abolished in Great Britain in 1965. It
also not permitted in Mxico, while in USA it varies from state to state .
Forgetting your own personal opinion, give 3 clear arguments in favour of
capital punishment and 3 other concise arguments against capital
punishment.
Seeing it in favour capital punishment is good in deleting criminals from the
planet once and for all, it also makes the government not to spend money in
maintaining the criminals with food and shelter and capital punishment makes the
planet less populated; The arguments against it is that capital punishment may
be wrong cause the guy that is killed may be the innocent one, also capital
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punishment is against actual morality in respecting life, and capital punishment is
seen inhuman to many (which I dont agree).
4. In a glowing future the viewpoint swings from Maurice to Betsy and
back again, showing the great lack of understanding or sympathy betweenthem. Write a short description of each character, as seen from the others
point of view.
Maurice is a very cynic man in the way that he tell Betsy about his new girlfriend
that is in Australia when theyre supposedly still in a now forgotten relationship.
Betsy is or was Maurice girlfriend and was having a long distance relationship
with him but he stopped writing, and almost a year later Maurice returns to Betsy
but only to reclaim his personal things cause he meet a new girl in Australia and
hes leaving her. But Betsy is still in love with him and shes angry of hearing the
notice.
5. Imagine you are Betsys older brother or sister. Betsy phones you on
Maurices last evening, when he has packed all his things and gone out to
get a meal. She tells you everything Maurice has said and done, and after
the phone call you send her an email, suggesting the best way for her to
deal with the situation.
Dear Betsy,
Hello dear sister, I was thinking of what you said to me and I say the best way tohandle it is letting him go, hes doing you a favour of doing the nasty work ofremoving the sentimental things, it would be easier for you to forget him. It willtake time I know but I will help you inviting you for some reunions and partieswhen you can distract and perhaps met new and better people.
In the worst of the cases kill that motherfucker, the bastard deserves it.
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Westminster School
Crime never pays II
By: Roberto Luis Aguilar Medina
High School 5B N/L 2
English Class
Teacher: Ofelia
1/March/2010
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Question:
1.In three is a lucky number, what reasons can you give for failure of
Ronalds plan to kill Edyth? Was there a flaw in the method he used? Did
Ronald omit to take necessary precaution? Do you think he was outwitted
by Edyth, or was his own conceit that was the cause?
Ronald was acting very weird all the time and Edyth noticed it and thats why she
called the police inspectors to investigate him. I think the method is already a
failure when used several times in short times, the lack of patience make Ronald
fail.
2. Imagine that Ronald succeed in murdering Edyth and continues with
the discovery of the accident, with a neighbor present, as planned . Write
his statement for the police, inventing the lies you think he might tell .
The death of Edyth Torbay was horrible; I was with Ronald passing the time
when it happens. I remember Ronald told her to get ready because they were
supposed to go out that night, she entered the bathroom and we were in sofa just
talking, waiting for her to have finished, but then the lights went down for a
moment and apparently nothing happened, but when we realise it has passed an
hour since she entered the bathroom Ronald was calling her but with no reply so
we force the locked and there she was laid in the bath dead burned by electricity.
The worst and saddest day of my life I must say.
3. In Ricochet, which do you think was more important for Owen: sole
possession and management of the farm, or living with Rhiannon and
being able to claim Margo as his daughter?
The second one because he didnt care of his farm, he actually kill his sheep and
every living thing in his farm just to have a fake reason to blame his brother for
actions Owen made, a madman thinking.
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4. Why do you think Mr. Spiller allows himself to be blackmailed, first by
Gooch and then by Masters? What would you have done in his position?
Because he wants to have a normal new life dont letting everyone know about
his dark past as a prisoner and masters because he wont let his new peaceful
life been gone letting everyone know the horrible kill he committed. Well theres
actually not many options when someone blackmail you, you become a slave of
that person, unless you really got the guts to ignore the blackmail and move on in
your life.
I will confront the consequences, because it can get worse as with Spiller
because from a very stupid blackmail it become a serious blackmail to the grade
of a murder.
5. Imagine thatMr. Spiller refuses to be blackmailed by masters, who
gives his information to the police. Mr. Spiller is arrested for Goochs
murder. Write the speech for the defence at his trial.
My client here is accuse for murder Mr. Gooch only based on a single eyewitnessof this person and thats a very unreliable source, he could just simply be lyingand get this man caught for personal affairs.
I demand justice, my client Spiller was just sleeping as the others living in thehouse. Why anybody else notice IF the murder was true and only one personsaw it. Thats really unreliable
Thats all for now, the defence rests.
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Westminster School
Harry Potter and the half-blood prince book report
By: Roberto Luis Aguilar Medina
High School 5B N/L 2
English Class
Teacher: Ofelia
In this sixth book at the beginning Harry Potter accompanies AlbusDumbledore on a trip to persuade retired Hogwarts professor Horace Slughorn toreturn to teaching, after staying in the Dudleys house and before arriving at TheBurrow.
At Hogwarts, Severus Snape is named the new Defence Against the DarkArts instructor, with Slughorn becoming the Potions teacher. Harry and Ron are
able to enrol in his class, but Harry's borrowed book has notes and correctionsthat yield better results than the textbook's instructions, winning him a vial of FelixFelicis, a luck potion, on his first day in class. The book formerly belonged to"The Half-Blood Prince".
Harry becomes suspicious of his rival Draco Malfoy, after overhearingseveral of his conversations, and when Katie Bell is almost killed whileattempting to deliver a cursed necklace under the influence of the ImperiusCurse. Meanwhile, Ron is displeased with his younger sister Ginny datinganybody, forcing Harry to ignore his attraction. After an argument with Ginny inwhich Ron's dating inexperience is made clear, Ron takes up with LavenderBrown, creating a divide between him and Hermione. This rift is only mended
when he accidentally consumes a love potion attracting him to Romilda Vane,and then poisoned mead, which almost kills him.
Dumbledore privately tutors Harry, using his Pensieve to show Harrymemories of Voldemort's past. Dumbledore asks Harry to retrieve a key memoryfrom Slughorn regarding Slughorn's conversation with a sixteen-year-old TomRiddle. Harry uses some of his Felix Felicis to acquire the memory.
The memories reveal that Voldemort splintered his soul into six fragmentsattached to objects called Horcruxes, while leaving a seventh piece in his body,in order to achieve immortality. As long as any of the Horcruxes exists Voldemortcannot be killed. Two Horcruxes have been destroyed - Tom Riddle's diary, by
Harry in the Chamber of Secrets four years earlier in the second book; andMarvoloGaunt's ring, by Dumbledore during the summer before this school year.
Three of the remaining Horcruxes are a locket formerly owned by SalazarSlytherin, a cup formerly owned by Helga Hufflepuff, and the snake Nagini.Dumbledore speculates that the sixth unidentified Horcrux may be somethingassociated with Gryffindor or Ravenclaw, as Riddle would have wantedsomething from each of the houses of Hogwarts, which he regarded as his home.
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Then after seeing Harry cast an unusual curse, "Sectumsempra" (a darkcurse which leaves deep gashes) against Draco Malfoy, Snape attempts toconfiscate the Half-Blood Prince's Potions book, but Harry gives him Ron's copyinstead and hides his copy in the Room of Requirement. Harry gets detentionfrom Snape and misses the Quidditch finals, but Gryffindor wins the Cup. During
the victory celebration Harry spontaneously kisses Ginny, and with Ron'sgrudging approval they begin dating.
Dumbledore locates another Horcrux and asks Harry to accompany him todestroy it. They travel to a cave and retrieve a locket, but Dumbledore isweakened after drinking a potion to obtain the Horcrux. Harry then successfullyapparates to Hogsmeade with Dumbledore. After they return to Hogsmeade, theysee the Dark Mark over the Astronomy Tower at Hogwarts and hurry back to theschool. Dumbledore and an invisible Harry are confronted atop the tower byDraco Malfoy. Draco admits that he was behind two attacks on Hogwartsstudents, with both objects intended for Dumbledore, whom Voldemort hadordered Draco to kill.
Dumbledore offers Draco protection from the Death Eaters, and Dracocannot bring himself to kill Dumbledore, even with the urging of fellow DeathEaters once they arrive. Instead, Snape kills Dumbledore. Harry, enraged andfreed from immobility by Dumbledore's death, pursues Snape, who reveals thathe is the Half-Blood Prince and fends off Harry's attacks (and Buckbeak whojoins in to help Harry) until he gets outside Hogwarts grounds and Disapparates.
Harry recovers the locket from Dumbledore's body, only to discover it is afake left by someone with the initials R. A. B., who stole the real Horcrux and lefta note about his opposition to Voldemort. McGonagall tries to question Harryabout what he was doing with Dumbledore and he refuses to say. McGonagall
calls a meeting of the Heads of House (with Slughorn taking Snape's spot) todecide what to do.
They decide to close the school, but at Harry's suggestion, agree to waituntil Dumbledore's funeral so the students can say goodbye. Harry decides toend his relationship with Ginny because he fears that their relationship wouldplace Ginny in danger. The Minister arrives and McGonagall lets Harry leave sohe can avoid the Minister. The school year ends with Dumbledore's funeral. Heand his wand are buried in a tomb beside the lake on Hogwarts's grounds. Harryvows not to return to school but to hunt for the remaining Horcruxes instead.
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Westminster School
Martian chronicles exam
By: Roberto Luis Aguilar Medina
High School 5B N/L 2
English Class
Teacher: Ofelia
Rocket summer
1. On base of what you read describe the story in one paragraph
That there was a cold winter in ohio where everyone was outside with its woolclothes playing with the snow then suddenly a rocket arrives at ohio andsuddenly everything started melting making everyone take their clothes off and
turning the snow into hot rain. And then everyone start saying to each otherrocket summer because was a summer caused by a rocket.
Ylla
2. What features in this story make the setting and characters strange
In this story it says that golden fruits grew on crystal walls and empty seas andthe characters are strange because of their yellow coin eyes, brownish skin.They think that having blue eyes and white skin is odd and say that Earth cannot
support life
3. Specify what are exotic touches
They are like weird things come true like Yllas dream where later in the story thething she had imagined came true like if she was predicting the future.
4. What is martian technology like
They used a not so advance technology compared to humans. Theyalso talkusing telepathy
5. What features make them seen too human
They get married, they travel, they have fights, they have pets, they have ahuman life stereotype and thats the only thing because the skin and eyes aredifferent.
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6. What are the unspoken assumptionsabout mens and women roles in this story
That men work and women only depend in to their husbands. The women areromantic and like any other men then Mr. K grew jealous of the astronauts andkilled them as they arrived.
7. If allmartians have last name that consist on a letter of the alphabet we only have26 posible names, can you think of any explanation of this problem
Wel its because they are used to it. Perhaps the population does not exceed 26Martians because perhaps their society is controlled in that way trying not tocomplicate
Summer night
1. How is this linkin tale similar in thing to Ylla
Because the children in this story started singing a song in a strange language
just like the song Ylla was singing the day she had that dream
2. Is the martian ability to read thought an advantage or disadvantage
In many ways is an advantage because no thought can be hidden anymore,everything you feel and think will be known but its also a disadvantage becausethere are son many thought at once these guys can get confused
3. Think of a familiar process that takes place among human beings for which thisstory could be read as a metaphor
This can be understood as a message to the parents that dont hear or dont
want to hear their children. Making them think about giving a chance to hear theirsons because they might be telling the truth.
The earth Men
1. What prevent the Martians from realizing that the men are really from earth
The Martians telepathy, that makes them thoughtthat the persons who claimwere from earth were just having hallucinations and were just making outeverything.
2. Why might people dont believe in flying saucers, UFOS and other alien contacts
in this storyBecause in this story its a fact that the two planets know each other by now andthat we are saying that Martians do exist so people know they are not a mysteryanymore.
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3. Can you come on an explanation for why the martians might now view the earthpeople as manifestations of their own minds
Because of their communication by telepathy they can read the complicatedhuman mind that has thousands of thoughts at a time so the Martians think theymost be manifestations of their own minds because of they read many thoughtswhich perhaps many of them wont make sense in the actual conversation.
They just hear lots of things that come from the human mind so they concludethat they are not real because many things they are saying has no sense thatswhy the Martians thought humans are insane, so they got scared and morescared thinking they might be the ones who are the insane ones and whoactually see imaginary things called humans that only disturb the Martian mindshearing nonsense.
Then in the story Mr.Xxx got panic thinking he was having a very detailedhallucinations and driven by panic he killed them and realizing the now
concluded imaginary rocket is still there he shot himself thinking hes the insaneone.
The tax payer
1. Write 5 important facts that explain this part
y A war is going to happened soon
y Only astronauts may go to space because they need special preparation.
y Earth is becoming very violent planet and this make people want to go
away from there.
y People think Earth is an ordinary planet and they want to know what is out
there.
y The character wanted to save himself because he didnt deserve to live
this war or be killed in it.
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Westminster School
The Wave
By: Roberto Luis Aguilar Medina
High School 6I N/L 1
English Class
Teacher: Vicky
1.-Write a dialogue between Mrs. Saunders and Mrs. Billings where Lauriesmother tries to convince her friend that the wave is not beneficial to Robert .
Please, cant you see, what if Robert goes to college insisted Mrs.Saunders, do you think he will act just as he is acting now?. of course, Mrs.Billings replied convinced he just learned the thing at school, he obviously willapply it in every aspect in his life. OH COME ON Mrs. Saunders saiddesperately THE BOY JUST LEARNED THE THING THREE DAYS AGO, and
the whole acting is getting pretty serious since the whole school is now involvedin thisorganizations that makes me feel Im in germany. Its not that serioussaid Mrs. Billings he has improved a lot, even more than Laurie, and thats whyyou are telling me this, you are jealous because your daughter is no longer theprincess. Mrs Saunders look Mrs. Billings astonished, almost not believing whatshe had said I really thought you could comprehend this said pretty slow Mrs.Saunders I do care about Robert thats why I tried to tell you this. Cant youunderstand, he NEEDS the wave to still act that way. Do you really think he canact it by himself away from his community?. Mrs Billings was looking awaywrinkling her frown and slowly stopped doing it. She said nothing. This wavething makes us have this argument added Mrs. Saunders as she was heading to
the exit door. I hope you can understand. She was now outside see youlater then then Mrs. Saunders finally closed the door. Mrs. Billings was stillthere, not moving.
2.-Imagine you are Robert Billings and write two entries the first the daybefore the experiment begins and the second, the day after Mr. Ross endsthe Experiment.
1st entry: Another day of school, is it going to be as always?...pfff, why Imasking myself this again, of course it will be the same another nastyexperience to come, now what can it be? God I hate my life, why I can be asthose guys that has new girlfriends week. Geez, Im just sick of thinking again
like this. Ill cut it off.2nd entry: WHYYY this is happening, Im crying, the wave was everything
to me, I feel like an animal, like a damn experiment, what the heck Ross wasthinking GODDDD I just want to KILL EVERYBODY, ARRRRR; Im so sad,why he do this to me? Why me? I was so stupid, how I let this get that deep tome? I just cant stop crying (sigh), this is so unfair. This cant be legal!! Now I willbe a loser again (sigh). Great (sigh), Mr. Ross is now coming to I dont what theheck why. well
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5.-Taking into account the idiosyncrasy of the Mexican people, do youthink this experiment could be done successfully here? Explain anydifferences or similarities between Mexicans and Americans to supportyour opinion.
I really think It can happen because charismatic teachers just as Mr. Rossare exist everywhere in the world, existing even from China to Tierra de Fuegoincluding of course USA and Mexico. And those charismatic easy speakerspersons can control tons of people and those people will do whatever that guytells them to do, so I really think this is so possible just as its possible as it is inRwanda, and as possible as it is in Kirgizstan, and as possible as it is all aroundthe world.
6.-Did you Like the Book? Why or Why not? Be specific.
I really think it was amazing, I really liked it. It was pretty intense,
entertaining and funny (just when the members of the grapevine were together),full of interesting themes and a pretty well done final. I really will recommend thisto everyone because it really thrills you almost everything make you want to readand read just to know what will happen next. It was pretty amazing.
7.-What is the theme of the book.
The theme is the German Nazis movement and trying to understand howtheir organization can possibly do the terrible things that were done.
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Lord of the Flies
By: Roberto Luis Aguilar Medina
High School 6I N/L 1
English Class
Teacher: Vicky
2.-Of all characters, it is piggy who most often has useful ideas and seesthe correct way for the boys to organize themselves. Yet the other boysrarely listen to him and frequently abuse him. Why do you think is thecase? In what ways does Golding use Piggy to advance the novelsthemes?
Piggy represents in a very good way the adults behavior that are notpresent in the island, but more important the civilized way of living and socialorder rules that are being lost graduallyasyou advance the book. Golding
obviously uses piggy to advance through the novel themes as a method tocontrast how the kids are supposed to behave and show instead how theybecome and cant control being more and more savage living things.
3.-The sows head and the conch shell each wield a certain kind of powerover the boys. In what ways do these objects powers differ? In what way isLord of the flies a novel about power? About the power of symbols? Aboutthe power of a person to use symbols to control a group
First, the conch represents democracy, while the sows head representsthe uncivilized. The conch is used to control everyone, Ralph used it to organize.Jack used the paint to create fear in others and to make things he wont normallydo. Lord of the flies is a novel about power because the stronger one is the onewho is the boss because there are no rules.
4.-What role do the littluns play in the novel? In one respect, they serve asgauges of the older boys moral positions, for we see whether an older boyis kind or cruel based on how he treats the littluns. But are the littlunsimportant in and of themselves? What might they represent?
The Littluns represent the population of a town or a country in general.They are being abused by the more powerful and big ones as a tool to achievetheir goals. But the truth is that no one really cares about them. They dont
realize that they are more powerful because they outnumber the big ones, but asthe population of a country is naive and do not have the courage and theknowledgeto demand what they really want they will not do a thing until someoneor something gives them the light that will begin an eternal cycle of revolutionagainst the powerful ones. This will happen as long we exist.
6.-Make a list of things you consider defects in society. Then, for eachdefect, write the defect in human nature that you think is the cause. Try to
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use a current news item to illustrate your point.
War, like in the news, war seems to be baking as fast as pancakes Egyptis in revolution against a corrupt long government, Libya is against theirdictatorship and almost everyone is in the brink of war and this is the fault of
humanity. War isthepurerepresentationofevilness, selfishness, laziness, pursuitfor perfection, intolerance, discrimination, miserly and many more that are ourpure nature. Also poor country progression, discrimination selfishness and everyone I mention and did not is the same for every defect in society. We areparasites sucking the planets true harmonic natural behavior, what are we?, whywe are here? Is our destructive behavior a way natures tries to equilibratesomething? If so what it is? Why life equals to suffering? WHYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!
Hope Im clear enough.
7.-Write an entry for the ships log that the officer might have madeafter he rescued the boys from the island. Note the condition of the boys,
the condition of the island, and a summary of the boys accounts of theiradventure on the island.
Today the ship rescued a group of boys in pretty bad conditions they wereat an island which was on fire, thats why we could possibly found them. Theirfirst reaction was started to cry a lot. They told me that there were two dead kids.All of them were locked like savages, they were half naked and with their paintedfaces. There was only one who wasntpainted, the ones who were painted wereabout to kill. But after they saw the everyone changed and they were returnedbeing a bunch of crying kids, now everything is back to normal for them, well atleast it seems. They will soon be with their respective parents.