Simon and all His glory

In chapter 8 of William Golding's Lord of the Flies, there is a short introduction to the actual Lord of the Flies while he talks to Simon. Simon is sitting in his meditation spot, when Jack and his pose come and murder a pig right in-front of him. This causes a mass swarm of flies to come to the carcass' head they left behind as an offering to the Beast. The swarm then is named "Lord of the Flies" but is not given a pronounced shape or form, other than a mass. At first it tries to scare Simon into going back to the other boys and playing peacefully, but sense he doesn't move, it starts to get angry and threatens him. Simon only says one thing- "Pigs head on a stick". This is the picture Simon cannot get out of his head no matter how hard he is trying, and this devil isn't helping obviously. The Lord of the Flies says some things that don't really make sense, one of which being; "This is ridiculous. You know perfectly well you'll only meet me down there-so don't try to escape!"

Symbols That Seem To Be Emerging

In "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding, many symbols are presenting themselves. The most prominent symbol I notice is Piggy and his way of thinking. He thinks very logically and very much to the point. His way of thinking is quite different from the rest of the boys because he is always looking for the truth and never what he actually wants to see. At the beginning of the book, Piggy was very straight forward and new exactly what happened to Ralph's dad (died to an atom bomb), even if Ralph didn't want to admit it. Piggy is still seeing things through "an eye of wisdom" because everything he sees through his glasses seems to be very truthful and realistic. I think that Piggy is a metaphor for scientists in our world because of his attitude towards bad things; he sees them and relates, then thinks of some way to fix them. Ralph and the other boys are less mature, and don't see that things are going to turn bad unless they get some work done, and stop playing around like this island is a vacation. Piggy is all around the most intelligent human on this island.

Biology Rant

So. I'm in biology. I love science, but this year it's been a little overwhelmingly annoying. We literally have a lab every day, due the following week, making us forget about them and have to cram them in the night before. I normally do amazing in science because I like it so much, but sense I can't do my best on the vast number of labs we have, I am falling behind. I'm not literally "falling behind", it just sucks having to stay up till 10:30 (look out, we got a bad-ass over here) at night doing homework. Just last night I was up till said time doing four labs, and no, I didn't procrastinate a ton and do all of it the night before, I did about half of each of them two nights before, but then we had more homework from biology due this same Friday! It's terrible! I go from 7 hours of school, to two hours of ultimate Frisbee, to homework till I sleep.

Halloween

Yesterday was Halloween. I didn't really do much, just kinda walked around the neighborhood with two of my friends and went to various of our other friends' houses. We all dressed up in the normal teenage wear: wanna be costumes that never made it to be their own solo clothing. Basically, we just took random clothes in the old dress-up boxes our sisters have and put as many on at a time as possible. I called myself the "Family Shepard Princess" because of the princess clothes and Shepard staff I had in my wardrobe. One of my friends went as "Count Swagula", which I higher opposed, and the other went as a skeleton or something of that sort; we couldn't really decide what he was. I honestly wouldn't think it as a very exiting night, as it used to be when I was younger. We just wandered, and candy wasn't a very big motivator for actually trick-or-treating because candy makes me feel sick. We only went to two houses for candy; our friend who couldn't hang with us's house about two blocks away, and this guys house that we mess with every year who has amazing decorations. We always pretend that the "big kids" stole all of our candy and then we beg him to give us some even though our costumes were far from par. Once we got our handful of candy, we went back to Skeleton friends house and talked with his family that is living in his basement because their house got destroyed in the recent flood that hit Colorado like a bowling-ball.