Steven Liu
Mr. Ted
World lit B
Multi-Genera Project
May 28, 2012
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Table of Content
Table of Content
Preface----------------------------------------------------------3
Anchor Paper---------------------------------------------------4
Book Cover-----------------------------------------------------7
Letter to Finny-------------------------------------------------8
Movie Poster--------------------------------------------------9
Piggy’s Diary-------------------------------------------------10
Journal Entry – Lord of the Flies--------------------------11
Journal Entry – Things Fall Apart-------------------------12
Postcards------------------------------------------------------13
Want Adverticement-----------------------------------------16
Ransom Notes------------------------------------------------17
Squealer's Speech--------------------------------------------18
Wanted Poster------------------------------------------------19
WorksCited----------------------------------------------------20
Preface
Preface
In this project, I have chosen to four books to compare. Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, Things Fall Apart, and A Separate Peace. I have chosen these four books because they all have the similar concepts about self destructions or the destructions of society. In Lord of the Flies, the conflicts between Ralph and Jack for shelter, food, protection, and power; and the loss of innocence of the young children which lead to a dramatic chaos. Animal Farm, Snowball and Napoleon fighting for the leadership to fight against the humans, but seems to be no difference from animals and humans. Things Falls Apart shows how Okonkwo built up his own personality which leads him to his own self destruction; and the invasion of the white man causing the destruction of culture, freedom, and society. A Separate Peace uses the idea of Gene’s adores and envy toward his best friend, Finny, which creates a love-hate relationship.
Anchor Paper
Steven Liu
Mr. Ted
World Lit B
May 28, 2012
Synthesis Essay
In every story, every movie, every novel, eventually, everything in life could be putted together and compared. Although sometimes it may seems that they are completely different things, but if you look at a situation in different angles and dig deep inside it, you can see all sorts of different results; and those results are like pieces of puzzles which we could combine them together and form a whole new picture. In Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, A Separate Peace, and Things Fall Apart, these four novels I have read in the past four years, all of them have a lot of things that we can look upon, compare to, and link together.
First of all, Lord of the Flies. This novel uses the sense of “loss of innocence” to develop the idea of the destruction of the society within the story. Because of wanting to organize the group of young children, they have decided to choose a person to be the leader and lead the group. Eventually, everyone voted Ralph to be their leader. This action of voting for a leader is the sign of the society forming. But later on in the story, the idea of Jack wanting to take over control of the group and owning the power of leadership then separates the group in to two. Under the rule of Jack has brought a total chaos, the children has lost their innocence first by murdering Simon then Piggy. Also, the conch they have found at the beach in the beginning of the story, it represents unity and law in within their society. But in another way, it also represents how the emptiness of the shell could cause the conch to break apart easily; the destruction of society.
In Animal Farm, this whole story was written as a satire of the Russian revolution (Lamont 1), using the idea of taking over power as the major issue of the destruction of society. First the pigs decided to call out all the animals in the farm house and stand for themselves and fight for their freedom. Luckily, the animals were able to work together as a team and kick Mr. Jones out of the farm house. For a while, the animals no longer works for the humans, they work for themselves and enjoy all the result afterwards. But later, Napoleon wants to take over control and used Squealer as his propaganda to successfully persuade the others to let him lead the group. After taking over control, he eventually changed words in The Seven Commandments that they have set in the first place, and used the dogs as his guards and made everyone to work for him. Having laws, forming animalism, and having leaders; this ridicules that there is nothing different before the revolution and after the revolution; this shows how the animals are just as the same as the humans. But after all, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and this shows how the society corrupts.
In A Separate Peace is a bit different from the other stories above. It uses jealousy to proceed the idea of loss of innocence and causing destruction on the others. Gene and Finny are best friends, but Gene doesn’t treat him as one. Gene adores and envy on how Finny of being a perfect man. He is jealous of everything that Finny has or does; he wanted to be Finny, and because of his jealousy he is willing to do anything and everything to achieve his goal. This idea shows how Gene was once innocence just like Finny, but because of his jealousy, it creates a love-hate relationship, which then creates horrible destruction of Finny’s future and even putted an end to his life.
Last but not least, Things Fall Apart is an obvious idea on how things fall apart. Because of Okonkwo’s embarrassment for his lazy, wasteful, effeminate father, Unoka, was the major thing in his life that driven him to succeed. To prevent from being someone like his father, he hates everything that he father like. Because of this, he became someone totally different from his father; his hard works and bravery in the war made him the most honorable leader in his clan (Johnson1). But he never knew, after the white man had invaded Africa and lives among the peoples, cultures were brought, churches were built, but it seems like Okonkwo was not able to function in the changes of the society. This personality he forced himself to create since his early childhood leads him to his own self-destruction in the future (Brians 1).These ideas show how the African culture and society falls apart, shows how Okonkwo falls apart, shows how everything falls apart.
Everything happens for a reason. In Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, A Separate Peace, and Things Fall Apart, these four different novels have lots of thing for us to look upon and to compare with. Although they are different stories, but we could easily find the similar personality those main character shares. And all four of these books uses the similar concept of loss of innocence, taking power, jealousy, which all leads to those dramatic chaos and self destruction or the destruction of the society.
Journal Entry - Lord of the Flies
Steven Liu
May 28, 2012
Journal Entry – How does society formed and falls in Lord of the Flies? What is the significance of the conch?
In the Lord of the Flies, it uses the idea of “loss of innocence” to develop through the entire story, from the very beginning were the society begins to form, and to the very last, where the destruction of the society lies.
After the plane crash, the kids arrived at this lonely island, and without any adults, they must learn how to survive. In order to learn they have decided to vote for a leader and the eldest among them all is Ralph and Jack, and everyone agrees that Ralph will be the leader of the group; And by voting for a leader, which then became the first sign of the society forming. But after they have struggled, Jack wanted to take over power and lead the group himself. First, the children are separated into two groups; soon enough, everyone else has gone away and joined Jack except for Ralph and Piggy. Under the lead of Jack, although the children have gained shelter, food, and protection, but they never knew that they have lost
their good in nature.
Because the idea of surviving, the children has lost their innocence, everything has turned chaos after the murder of Simon, which also leads to the death of piggy. The idea of “loss of innocence” accurse at the very first moment when the society was formed, and the same concept put to an end to it as well. The significance of the conch represents the society itself. The shell looks hard and strong, but the emptiness causes the shell to breaks apart very easily; the destruction of the society.
Journal Entry - Things Fall Apart
Steven Liu
May 28, 2012
Journal Entry – How does Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart considered as a tragic hero?
Okonkwo was an honorable clan leader in Umuofia. Since his early childhood, Okonkwo’s embarrassment about his lazy, squandering, and effeminate father, Unoka, was the major thing in his life that driven him to succeed. By embracing these ideals of his father’s, he did whatever he could to not to become someone like his father. Okonkwo’s hard work and valor in war have earned him great position in his clan and financial success which he attains to support three wives and his children.
Although Okonkwo had successfully became an individual that is completely different from his father, but after the white man had invaded and live among the Africans, Okonkwo seems to be unable to function within this changing society. As a result, his personality and behavior of violence had brought him great deal of troubles and sorrow upon himself.
Because of his embracement of his father, Okonkwo had become a manliness, anger, and violence individual. Although he was honored in his clan, and was wealthy enough to take care of his entire family, but having these personality and behaviors within the changing of the society eventually brought him to his own destruction, which led him of becoming a tragic hero.
Squealer's Speech
Squealer’s Speech
Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I can tell all of you here that although Napoleon may not be a good speaker, but I can assure you that he is a great leader, and the best choice among us here. Do not fall into Snowball’s stratagem because this guy here beside me, Napoleon, is the guy who really cares about you guys, he is the guy who will fight for your freedom. And by his intelligence, we will succeed.
As animals, we have been working for humans for hundreds and thousands of years.While we are working so hard out there for four seasons a year, the humans would be sitting back down enjoying their time, and taking all the goods and benefits after the results of our hard works.They used us to build a nice house for them to live in; they used us to buy the cloths that they wear. They even have the most delicious food in the world, and for all those hard works we have done? What did we get? Nothing.
Today, we must put an end to this. Today, as animals, we no longer work for the humans, you will work for yourselves and enjoy all the results afterwards.Today, under the lead of Napoleon, you should join the upraising; we shall stand and fight together against the humans for our right and our freedom. Four legs good, two legs bad! Long live Napoleon!
WorksCited
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New York: Anchor, 1994. Print.
"Animal Farm - Comparison of Characters to the Russian Revolution." Animal Farm - Comparison of Characters to the Russian Revolution. Web. 27 May 2012. <http://barney.gonzaga.edu/~sbennet3/mead/lessonplans/animalfarm.htm>.
BBC News. BBC. Web. 27 May 2012. <http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english_literature/proselordflies/>.
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. New York: Coward-McCann, 1962. Print.
Brians, Paul. "Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart Study Guide." Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart. Washington State University,, 14 Apr. 2011. Web. 26 May 2012. <http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/anglophone/achebe.html>.
"Things Fall Apart." Things Fall Apart. Web. 27 May 2012. <http://www.wmich.edu/dialogues/texts/thingsfallapart.html>.
Orwell, George. Animal Farm;. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1954. Print.
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