Once again it’s time to delve into a discussion on the predicament of the human heart with my freshmen students. The conduit for discovery, argument, and a movement from “the ignorance of self to a tragic knowledge”, for those who haven’t gotten there yet, will be (or so I pray) Golding’s Lord of the Flies. I challenge each of my students before our reading to try with all their gusto to not find any correlation between themselves and all major characters. It's my belief that a bit of each, the leader Ralph, the intellectual Piggy, the savior Simon, and yes, the tyrant Jack and sadist Roger do reside within all *human souls; or at the very least, a potential.
And so, in an effort to find some visual cues to assist in this endeavor, I came across some beautiful images by Sam Weber for **The Folio Society's edition of the novel. They blew me away.
And so, in an effort to find some visual cues to assist in this endeavor, I came across some beautiful images by Sam Weber for **The Folio Society's edition of the novel. They blew me away.
Beautiful eh? But, I also found this one...
Oh you crazy right-wingers.
*Some say that some animals have souls. Did you know this?
**That site is a book enthusiast/art appreciator's dream/lust lounge. Go ahead, spend fifty bucks on Slaughterhouse 5 or To Kill a Mockingbird. Or maybe a cool $185 on Walden by Henry "Dave" Thoreau. No biggie.
hahaha. the obama thing is too much.
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Yeah man. I agree. Yes I have seen it! So ridiculous!
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