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FREEDOM
It feels great to finally be done with this project and know that I can pass senior year and go to college. Although this project kicked my ass for the past month, in the end I can't be mad because I know it has taught me things and made me better at things that I'll use in the future. I plan on being a lawyer and going to law school so I guess this was only just a welcoming party for the future projects and countless nights without sleep to come!
My Rad Research
During the writing and research aspects of this project, I found that it is not only difficult for me to document and transfer my thoughts into text, but also stay focused. Many times during this project, I would think of tons of ideas and points I wanted to make, but my brain would move too fast for me to actually form the sentences, therefore I would forget my point. But one thing that helped me was putting my headphones in and listening to https://www.coffitivity.com/ !
No way! I thought I was the only one that listened to coffee shop background music! It seriously helped me concentrate
My Rad Research 2
Finding my criticisms wasn’t necessarily hard. George Orwell’s 1984 has a lot of recognition. The hard part was narrowing it down and picking ones that worked. Luckily, and because I am a bit of a scam, I brought my sister, Katie, to the Oakland University Library with me. She was a huge help and guided me in the right direction.
Another difficult part was fully understanding what the critics where saying. I mean, these critics are real elegant and fluffy writers a times. I read a lot of ones, by different authors, which said the same thing over and over, just in different ways. That did not help me. Annotating the criticism was a challenge but in the long run was a good learning experience.
I had the same experience, Lord of the Flies is pretty famous so there were plenty of criticisms, almost too many. I can't even remember now many I read and like you said I swear the authors were just saying random things at times to make themselves sound smart. And they all talked about basically the same concepts and themes of Lord of the flies so it was just whichever one made more sense to me.
Annotations
It wasn’t all that hard to do once I relaxed and sat down in front of the computer. I got a lot of my information from my criticisms which was extremely helpful. At this point I’m confident my final end result will be just fine.
Yea I found that too, once I sat down I could crank out all my annotations and my criticisms helped a lot
Here's a picture of me at the OU library. And no I'm not winking at the camera, it was just very bright out
Researching the work
I forgot that i didn’t share my experience of finding the criticisms at the library. I walked in confused and scared to be honest. The librarian was not nice or helpful and she sent me off on my own to find the books. Once i got to my destination i could only find one criticism on Cat on a hot tin roof. I began to question whether or not i should change books. I asked my brother to check the library at Michigan state where there was only a few books. Msu is kind of far and i didnt want to have to drive all the way up there to get the books so he gave me a link to the online msu library. There, i found a good amount of criticisms and it was really convenient. I was overall really happy with my findings.
Same! It took me forever to find the library to start with because I had never been there before and the librarian I talked to was pretty mean, I don't think she wanted to be there at all.
Getting somewhere
Just spent the last four hours staring at a computer screen typing my general intro. It was so hard to try and figure out where I was going with it. I got to the point where I would just type something, anything and build off of there and then go back and piece it all together so that it made some sort of sense. I'm still not sure it makes any sense though but hopefully krienbring thinks it's a literary piece of art and not a piece of shit.
ALMOST THERE
I'm getting close but I'm currently stuck on the general introduction. Just like many other people I can't seem to put my thoughts into sentences. I spent a couple hours on it tonight and I only got a paragraph done. I'm hoping to have it done tomorrow or at least a rough draft, then I can show kreinbring so I know if it sucks or not. The due date has definitely come out of no where though, I feel myself frantically trying to finish the project in time so that I can sit down and relax.
Research #3
“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH” This is what the inside of my head sounds like when I think about the general introduction. 3-5 pages has never seemed so long. I have a solid plan of what I would like to do but the problem is I don’t know how to do it. I’ve always struggled with essays and knowing that this is counted as two grades scares the crap out of me. R.I.P. Me and my AP Lit grade.
I feel the same way! I have a basic idea of what I want to say but I just can't think of a good way to say it.
If I was going to take a fictional character to prom it would definitely be Hermione Granger from Harry Potter. I grew up reading these books and she always stuck out to me, she was described as intelligent, kind and funny all at the same time. Those would be perfect attributes for a prom date.
Abstracts
So I have my criticisms picked out and I've been trying to write my abstracts for a couple days now but I just can't seem to get anything down on paper. There's just so much that the author talks about in each criticism and I can't figure out how to sum it all up without taking up five pages. Also the authors of my criticisms seem to be all over the place and it's hard to see how it all connects until they actually explain it. But I've seen other people post that it gets easier after the first one so I'm hoping for the same. I do really enjoy the criticism though, I like reading all these different insights and it let's me see things I didn't notice before. I hope to get my abstracts done this week so I can get started on my annotations.
So I finally got my book of criticisms at the library and man was that an experience. First it took a while just for me to find the library because it was so inconspicuous looking hiding behind the larger engineering building. When I finally got inside, I asked the librarian if she could help me find criticism on Lord of The Flies. Almost reluctantly, (this was on one of those extremely cold days so she probably didn't want to be there either) she pointed me in the right direction which helped but I still had to follow the endless rows of bookshelves all the way down to the end and then decipher the countless sub-categories of how the books were placed. Finally, I found a solid row of books of criticism on Lord of The Flies. This one is a newer version that is basically made up of all the other ones. I have only started to read it, but it's really interesting. It basically starts off by disregarding Lord of The Flies as anything but a time piece and says "that British schoolboy savagery is not in itself an adequate emblem of universal evil". After reading only a small part of the book, I have already gained several different perspectives on the book which are all quite fascinating.
Reading The Work
So I finished Lord of the Flies and I wish I would have read this earlier or in class because I would love to Harkness about it or just have a group discussion. I know this book is a little, how would you say it, young or more of a youth book but I think the underlying themes and ideas are great. Like the theme of innocence, are we all born innocent? Or are some people just born evil, born with hate? The children start off on the island with their innocence intact, ready to work together to survive. But soon they fall into chaos after their first kill of a pig. Is this a trigger that sets off their wild animalistic nature? The nature that has always been inside of them. I love how golding shows the constant battle between civilization, which is portrayed through Ralph, and the primitive animalistic nature of people which is portrayed through Jack. Ralphs only goal is to get off the island and return to civilization and at first he convinces the other children of the importance of this too but throughout the book Jack convinces them too let out their savage nature and forget civilization. Jack finally gains full control over the children when they see the dead pilot which they think is the beast. He controls them with fear and the belief that he can protect them. The entire book the boys try to keep a signal fire going to try and let someone know they are on the island, to them it is their only hope of being rescued. Ironically they are only saved when Jack attempts to burn down the entire jungle to try and catch Ralph. In the end Ralph cries not because he has been rescued but because he knows that things will never be the same after being on the island. Now that I have finished I'll be looking for criticism and I think I want to find a movie version of the book so I can watch that and see the differences and similarities.
I found this picture on Google about Lord of the Flies. I really like it because it illustrates the two different sides of not only the island but of the kids too. The right side is red and shows the destructive and barbaric nature and the left side is blue which I think represents the ties to society and the rules and regulations that come with it. You can also see the pig as a skull on the right due to violence but still alive on the left. I notice though that the part of the pig on the left looks like it is bleeding. I think this could mean that even the blue, orderly side has violence tucked away deep down. Also there are broken glasses and a conch shell on the bottom. I haven’t finished the book yet but I think the glasses represent piggy and maybe the conch shell represents Ralph.
Reading the Work
I continued reading Lord of the Flies today. I got to page 95. Chapter four started off confusing for me because it started with a lot of imagery and I wasn’t quite sure what it was talking about so I read it over a couple times. As the book continues I experience the break between two of the main characters. Ralph who is the protagonist and Jack who is the antagonist. Jack was responsible for keeping the fire going so they could signal any ships that came near the island. Instead jack went hunting and while out hunting a ship passed by the island but the fire was out. As this happens I can see the two groups separating. Ralphs group, who are concerned with order and their connection to the real world and Jacks group who are concerned with hunting, bloodlust and dominance over others. I am intrigued to see how the book continues.
As soon as we talked about the final project I already had a couple books in mind. Lord of the Flies was definitely at the top because I had always heard good reviews from other people but I had never had the chance to read it. What sealed the deal was the amount of hits it got on Google scholar, over 100,000, so I knew it wouldn't be too hard to find criticism. I picked up the book this week and after 50 pages realized I had to stop myself so I could blog what was happening. The book starts with Golding throwing the reader into the book without giving much detail of what happened to the children or their back story. I don’t mind this, I like being dropped right into the action and being allowed to come to my own conclusions regarding what happened. Knowing where I’m at now and having knowledge of what happens through the book I am interested to see how Golding will take me there.
