Dialectical Journal For Lord Of The Flies

In the duration of reading the novel, The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, my collection of dialectical journals reflect on what I learned and understood through important events, small details and characters. First considering the choices I made when reading and completing assignments, I chose passages that are easy to connect to because being an individual of a young spirit and mind similar to the childish survivors, I felt close to the characters’ emotions and actions of ignorance, insecurity, pride and fear. The dialectical journals also influenced my reading of later chapters by expecting an increase of failure than success. Ralph’s continuation of failing to unite the survivors together to create survival resulted in a hopeless

I get distracted easily and lose track of what I’m reading when a passage contains a lot of small details, so listening to an audio version helps me keep track of where and what I’m reading. Another helpful source is SparkNotes for broadening my understanding of important symbols when I’m confused. In addition partner and class collaborations assisted me the most in engaging with the text and symbols because it allowed for me to collect various answers, opinions and clarifications of symbolism, characters, events and more in

Progressing through the novel and uncovering unexpected events and surprises kept me on my toes, anxiously. On the last note when I engaged metacognitively, I used my imagination to think outside of the box. In my mind I replaced characters with basic values or ideas within our society and reread it in a different way. For example when I was studying with a classmate, we both concluded that in the last chapter Ralph represents the only common sense, sanity or rationality left in the island while the rest represent hatred and irrational concepts. Throughout our society, hatred and irrational concepts(presented by opposing individuals) are often seen chasing out common sense, sanity, or rationality, similarly to how Jack and his tribe hunts and chases Ralph--even though Ralph only seeks to share the fire to start a rescue signal--without a rational reason. Another example is the dead parachutist--a sign from the adult world--which I interpreted the survivors’ lost of authority. Lost because the parachutist is dead. Authority because the parachutist is an adult, and in the island’s situation they’re free of adults and in need of adults to come to the rescue and lead them back in order. The dead parachutist representing loss of authority evaluates as the childish survivors starting