10/3 Iris Lee Period 5

10/3/19

Iris Lee

Period 5

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Aim: How does William Golding formulate the island into a microcosm of World War II through allegory?

Do Now: Compare a school structure to a structure of government and how it equates.

Comparisons:

Principals to Presidents

Assistant Principals to Cabinet/Vice President

Teachers to Governors

Student Council to State Senates

Deans to Supreme Court

Students to Citizens

Elaborating from that idea of a school structure compared to a government structure, we learned about microcosm.

Microcosm: a representation of something on a much smaller scale. Microcosm means "small world"

*Only applies to intangible concepts or ideas

ex: lock downs are based on military drills

Allegory: a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning typically a moral or practical one.

From that, students discussed amongst the class about events that happened in World War II. Every part of Lord of the Flies was in line with what was happening with the war at the time.

World War II was an inspiration of literature.

Compared Hitler to Jack, Roosevelt to Ralph, and Churchill to Piggy.

Group Work

1) The boys were on a plane flying out of Britain to escape the war, what is so tragically ironic about the situation they're creating for themselves?

My group discussed how the boys were essentially trying to escape a war just to enter another war.

Overall, today we learned about how the Lord of the Flies was a microcosm of World War II. We find that the Lord of the Flies was an allegory where we discover Jack could be compared to Hitler, Ralph to Roosevelt, and Piggy to Churchill. The island was more or less a smaller version of the whole world around them at that time. I learned that sometimes you are able to find a meaning in a piece of work when interpreting it closely.