The four important events that happened in the last third of the book are the following:i) Piggy’s death- This death was the most important event in this book because with lose of Piggy’s wise advices; Ralph could not bear to think that what will become of him. Democracy and order was kept alive on the island because Piggy was the only one who believed in a civilized society. With the death of Piggy, the conch was dead too so, they definitely had connections between them. The conch was the only thing along with Piggy that kept the boys together and connected to the real world’s law and order. He was the one that told the boys to only keep their focus on being rescued but not fighting with one another and wasting time forming new tribes with new leaders. He was the wise one on this island who told Ralph to blow the conch and got the boys together at the first place. However, no one thought of him as brave and intelligent boy instead they judged him based on his clothes, glasses and way he looked which is very common in the real world.
ii) Simon’s death - It is the most important event because it foreshadows the blood shedding that will be taking place in the rest of the book. It shows the beginning of the uncivilized brains of the boys that will slowly turn even worst. The boys were so close to knowing the truth that there is no beast on this island and so it is safe to put the fire up onto the mountain. Instead of knowing the truth, they just jumped right into conclusion and killed Simon as they thought that it was the beast. With Simon’s death Ralph and Piggy were disturbed and were clueless, that if this death was a murder or an accident. Piggy was the wise one and decided that the boys are not the ones to be blamed but Simon with his horrifying entry into the feast. With all the fears in the boys’ minds turned all at ones and indicated that it is the beast and they should kill it before it attacks which is the wise step that the boys came onto right on the spot. Anyway, they thought that they have no choice of running or escaping the beast and so all of the boys attacked Simon leading to his death. 
iii) Ralph escaping from the boys- This is an important event in the book because this was the most suspenseful part that I though Jack will be killing Ralph and that will be the end of the book, which I thought, would be sad. He ran into the forest and had no way to get out of this trouble; he only had limited choices to save him. The state of Ralph at that current scene was the same as the state of the democracy and order within the boys themselves. They had turned completely into scavengers and will do anything to kill Ralph. Well, they had to otherwise; they would be hunt by Jack and his hunters. Moreover, at the end surprisingly when the navy army officer comes and saves Ralph was like a miracle same with democracy and order and it was saved. From this, we know that even though someone or something dies that does not mean that it completely disappeared from the whole world. You can still keep it alive within yourselves. The author sows the true meaning of democracy and order that is needed in our society for the living otherwise, you know the human “rice” will be cooked oops! the human race will vanish and the dictatorship will begin. 
iv) The stealing of the glasses-This was important in the book because this scene foreshadowed that something bad is going to happen next. Piggy had to get his glasses back or otherwise he will not be able to see and the author gave us the feeling of “Now What”. On the other side, at least Jack and his hunters did not steal the conch because that is the only thing that gave Piggy the courage to speak his mind, it truly meant a lot to him. They not only stole the glasses but also hurt Sam ‘n’ Eric “Just a loose tooth”. Jack could have asked Ralph for the fire nicely if they really needed it! At the end, someone really ends up getting hurt. Stealing was the other thing that broke the rules and regulations of the society and now this gave the feeling that Jack and his hunter has really crossed the line. -Jasveen
5 comments:
Great way of ordering those 4 events! I think i would have ordered them similarily, except i would have put the theft of piggy's glasses 3rd because it significantly impacts the rest of the story. It leads to Piggy's death which then puts Ralph's life at risk with all those savages!
I also like your pictures...as usual!
I also love how you said human "rice". Filming our video must have been the highlight of this past week Al Gore!:p
Poor Amira is never going to hear the end of that =D. It was pretty funny...all TWELVE takes!
Back to serious stuff though; notice how 2 of the most important events are people dying. I guess that can give us an idea of what the story is about.
It was suspensful when Ralph was trying to escape from Jack, but I thought it was weird how after all that (the whole book) they were rescued in like 2 lines! And then it was done! What do you guys think?
whoops that anonymous one was from me. Who's me you might ask? :P
I thought that was just me. I felt like Golding described everything sooo vividly and then just gave up at the end. Poor thing, he might have wanted to sleep!:D.. He could have atleast described the navy officer( good-looking,etc):p.. you get what I mean!
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