6th Entry
Please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. Why is this passage meaningful? Please type it into one of your entries and comment on what you think about the passage.
Please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. Why is this passage meaningful? Please type it into one of your entries and comment on what you think about the passage.
(Chapter 12) Ralph looked at him dumbly. For a moment he had a fleeting picture of the strange glamour that had once in vested the beaches. But the island was scorched up like dead wood- Simon was dead-and Jack had…. The tears began to flow and sobs shook him. He gave himself up to them now for the first time on the island; great, shuddering spasms of grief that seemed to wrench his whole body. His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of men’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
This passage was significant to me because although Ralph is reused, he cries in despair and grief. When he sees the civilized creature in front of him, rather than reminding him of the comfortable bed and food, he is reminded of the horrors and the evil things that happened on the island. He knows that things wouldn’t be the same anymore, or that he wouldn’t be the same anymore, even if he goes back to the civilized society. Now, he knows about the evil nature inside all humans. He knows what humans are capable of. He had experience the deepest fear inside all humans which results to evil and violence. The horrors that he experienced in this island will always haunt him as he lives though his life. The situations such as war would always remind him how humans really are. The darkness of men’s heart is maybe what results to every misfortune in this world. Murder, violence, ignorance, grief, sadness, cruelness, and all the other evil in this world didn’t come out form Pandora’s Box. It came out form the box inside us, which is always trying open a little wider, creating misfortune both to ourselves and the world that we live in.
However, I believe that we all have a lock to close that box inside us. It is called “Love”. With love and care for each other, we can defend our world from pure evil. Love has the power to overcome the evil. Although it may be impossible to get rid of the evilness inside us completely, we can always love each other. I think that is why God created both love and evil exists in this world.
This passage was significant to me because although Ralph is reused, he cries in despair and grief. When he sees the civilized creature in front of him, rather than reminding him of the comfortable bed and food, he is reminded of the horrors and the evil things that happened on the island. He knows that things wouldn’t be the same anymore, or that he wouldn’t be the same anymore, even if he goes back to the civilized society. Now, he knows about the evil nature inside all humans. He knows what humans are capable of. He had experience the deepest fear inside all humans which results to evil and violence. The horrors that he experienced in this island will always haunt him as he lives though his life. The situations such as war would always remind him how humans really are. The darkness of men’s heart is maybe what results to every misfortune in this world. Murder, violence, ignorance, grief, sadness, cruelness, and all the other evil in this world didn’t come out form Pandora’s Box. It came out form the box inside us, which is always trying open a little wider, creating misfortune both to ourselves and the world that we live in.
However, I believe that we all have a lock to close that box inside us. It is called “Love”. With love and care for each other, we can defend our world from pure evil. Love has the power to overcome the evil. Although it may be impossible to get rid of the evilness inside us completely, we can always love each other. I think that is why God created both love and evil exists in this world.
2 comments:
Hi yoo jeong I do agree with you that love can overcome the evil. The passage you picked was also meaningful because it is the first murder that happened in the story and Ralph got totally shocked as losing a pure "goodness." the passage that I picked was when Ralph said he is afraid of the kids, not the breast anymore, and Piggy was trying to calm Ralph. I think we basically chose the same content since both talk about Simon's death and the reaction of Ralph.
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