Ralph #3

Once we settled down, the boys decided to elect a leader. The choirboys vote for Jack, but all the other boys vote for me. I won the vote, but Jack clearly wanted the position. To satisfy Jack, I asked the choir to serve as the hunters for the band of boys and asked Jack to lead them. Mindful of the need to explore their new environment, I chose Jack and a choir member named Simon to explore the island, ignoring Piggy’s annoying whining requests to be picked. The three explorers leave the meeting place and set off across the island. After that we went to play around in the jungle. Eventually, we reach the end of the jungle, just toward steep mountains. We climb up the side of one of the steep hills. From the peak, we can see that they are on an island with no people. As we travel back toward the beach, Jack and his crew finds a wild pig caught in a tangle of vines. Jack draws his knife and steps in to kill it, but hesitates, and the pig frees itself and runs away, and Jack vows that the next time he will not flinch from the act of killing. The three boys make a long trek through dense jungle and eventually emerge near the group of boys waiting for them on the beach.

Ralph #2

Piggy and I look around the beach, wondering what happened to the other boys from the plane. Although we couldn’t find any of them, we did find a large pink and cream-colored conch shell, and Piggy came up with the great idea of using it as makeshift trumpet. He convinces me to blow through the shell to find the other boys. Once the boys heard the blast of sound from the shell, they start to straggle onto the beach. The oldest among them are around twelve; the youngest are around six. Among the group is a boys’ choir, dressed in black gowns and led by an older boy named Jack. They march to the beach in two parallel lines, and Jack snaps at them to stand at attention. The boys taunt Piggy and mock his appearance and nickname

Ralph #1

I woke up in a scary place. I’m frightened because I don’t know where I am. I look around and I see a few rocks to climb down, and I climbed down, as I am climbing, I over hear a voice following me. I turn around and I see an overweight boy around my age, and he wore glasses that he constantly kept wiping dirt off. The fat boy tells me that there was a pilot and other kids that may have gotten out. Once he told me that, I asked him where all the grownups were. He told me that there were not any, once he told that I couldn’t help but smile. The fat boy's name was Piggy. After I finished talking about his name and laughing at him, he ran back into the forest. I chased him into the forest and we see a great platform of pink granite thrust up through the forest. I jumped in the water, but Piggy was scary and went I slowly. We were in the water for a minute, and I tell Piggy about my dad and how he is a commander in the Navy. I just knew he was going to come and rescue us.

Why did Shakespeare’s plays appeal to “groundlings, royals, and everyone in between? What elements assisted him in doing that?

In Shakespeare’s plays, there is always a "Queen" or "King". This is keeping the audience aware of where it took place at and the time period of the play. The plays were filled with dramatic endings. It always had some form of love, death, and that one huge surprise that change the entire flow of the story. Shakespeare plays were always in old English form. Shakespeare plays were mainly for royalty. He wrote plays for people who serve the queen and king. He also wrote plays so that the audience can understand how it was back in the 1500s. Shakespeare’s plays were so appealing to the royalty and groundlings, because they could relate to it.

Queen Elizabeth I was the unwanted child of Henry VIII. Why?

Although Queen Elizabeth was a great leader, she was an unwanted child of King Henry VIII. Not because he didn’t like her as a person, but mainly because of her mother, Anne. Henry hatred towards Anne was so compelling that he had her beheaded, because she was accused of adultery, witchery, and incest. Henry was also expecting a son (that was promised by Anne) to take over his throne, but instead, he had a daughter. It is an unreasonable situation for Elizabeth; she didn’t ask to be put in this scenario, but considering the fact King Henry being an antagonistic and selfish individual it is not a surprise.

How do I demonstrate that I am open-minded enough to learn from my experiences?

An individual demonstrates that they are open minded enough to learn from their mistakes when they are mature about scenarios they are wrong in. Whether it is something major or something that may seem irrelevant too another person, it still take maturity and courage to admit when you are wrong. As a young African American growing up, I know I have made plenty of mistakes, but also as a sophisticated, intelligent young man I can admit I was wrong. Once I admit I was wrong, I try to view how the mistake affected my life as a whole. Then I figure out what I could have done differently. Once I completely understand the mistake I have made, I learn from it. I begin to comprehend that I need to do things differently, and everyone start to see the demonstration of my open mind to learn from my mistakes I have made in the past.

Then there is the topic of staying open minded to the experiences that I benefited from. Firstly I see how it affected my life. I also see how difficult the experience was. If it was something easy, I say to myself; it would not hurt me to continue to practice these good habits. If it was more of a troublesome situation, I try to understand that everything in life does not come easy. I learn to understand that something is not worth having if you do not work for it, so there will always be something that may seem difficult at the time, but at the end it will all be worth it.

Overall, I often try to show my teachers and peers, I learn from my past experiences. If I usually wait to the last minute to finish a valuable project, and do not get a satisfying grade, I learn from it and manage my time more strategically. If I studied extremely hard for a midterm, and got an A on it, I will learn that I need to continue studying. When an individual is open minded enough to learn from past experiences, they are constantly trying to better themselves as a person, and that is exactly what I am trying to do.

Chapter 20

Chapter 20 Quote 1

"Dey gointuh make ‘miration ‘cause mah love didn’t work ... lak they love, if dey ever had any. Then you must tell ‘em dat love ain’t somethin’ lak uh grindstone dat’s de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch.

Janie lectures Pheoby that love is not a fixed thing that is the same for everyone who experiences it. Instead it is as fluid and changing as the sea, only shaped by the shores (or men) it meets. Society has a normative and inflexible idea of what love is, when actual love is different for everyone.

Chapter 20 Quote 2

Janie mounted the stairs with her lamp. The light in ... her hand was likea spark of sun-stuff washing her face in fire.

Janie is so immersed in thoughts of Tea Cake, her son of Evening Sun, that she thinks of the lamp in her hand as a spark from her love, lighting her face and her path so that she can see.