During the start of the book I was worried that I wouldn’t like the book because of its minimal plot and tremendous amount of setting and describing. But as soon as I read further into the book my worries had gone away. The author of the book’s great story line made up for all the setting that he put in to the book. I think that my favorite chapter in the book was probably the last chapter because of the power and intensity that was taking place on that island. I still cant really process that the boy’s had killed Simon and Piggy, because they are just boys and all were friends at one point in the story. When Piggy died I was disappointed and relieved at the same time because Piggy would always whine and complain, but he also had the great ideas and was a sense of civilization. So when Piggy died it was like the final piece of civilization was gone on that island. At the end of the book I didn’t really want all the boy’s to be rescued because they didn’t help really with the fire and smoke, which were the main things that were needed for being rescued. So all together I really enjoyed the book minus all the describing the author did.
Sep 24
September 25th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
[...] My eighth-graders’ vocabulary “podcasts” have also started showing up along with wonderful reflections from their novel study. I move on to Upper School and see that an author has commented on one of [...]