Chapter 8: Gift for the Darkness & Chapter 9: A View to a Death

NO CHARACTER PERSPECTIVES!!

Chapter 8: A Gift for the Darkness

CHAPTER 8 in Lord of the Flies is one of the most confusing chapters in the novel. When you can make sense of it and understand what William Golding is trying to make you visualize and understand, it is one of the most frightening and disturbing chapters in fiction. For this journal entry , choose what you consider the most interesting or terrifying of the three events (listed below) from Chapter 8.

In no less than a 12 sentences (12 font), describe in detail what happened in this scene and why you think it is the most terrifying. You may use illustrations with captions or just words to describe your event. Also, you don't have to use the vocabulary words in this entry!

The three events to choose from:

1. The meeting at the beginning of the chapter when Jack runs away to start his own tribe.
2. The scene where Jack and his hunters create the sacrificial pig head/ “Lord of the Flies”.
3. The scene when the Lord of the Flies talks to and threatens Simon.

Chapter 9: A View to a Death

Write a 6-10 sentence paragraph about who is responsible for Simon’sdeath and why.

CLAIM: [1st Sentence: Your claim needs to take a strong stand accusing an individual, the group, the Lord of the Flies, or evil in general (whatever you believe) for causing Simon’s death.]

CONCRETE DETAILS: [2nd & 4th Sentences: Provide at least two pieces of evidence from the chapter that support your claim. These pieces of evidence should be direct quotes or contain specific details from pages in the novel.]

COMMENTARY: [3rd & 5th Sentences: Here is where you explain why the concrete details you have chosen prove your claim. Explain your reasoning. Why does this quote or specific detail prove your major claim about who is responsible for Simon’s murder?]

CONCLUSION: [6th Sentence: Summarize your paragraph and clearly restate your major claim about who is responsible for Simon’s murder. Make your reader think, question or connect Simon’s murder to a larger theme in the novel or commentary on human nature, in general]