How does your book reflect the world?

4/1/2020

Hello all-
Today's topic related to Context. The question is how the book reflects the world in which it's set. How is that setting different from our everyday life? What techniques does the writer use to bring that world to life? Pick a sentence or two that you think best represents the world of the book and tell us why. Here's an example from All Quiet on the Western Front:

"The pure fragrance of the water and the melody of the winding the poplars held our fancies. We loved them dearly, and the image of those days still makes my heart pause in its beating." Here Remarque's main character, Paul Baumer, remembers a beautiful spot from his childhood. The imagery here is almost poetic, and he uses personification of the trees to give the place a life of its own. This is even more poignant because the memory is juxtaposed against Paul's daily life in the hell that is the trenches of World War One.

I'll be looking for responses from everyone by next week. Be well! M.

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Aubrey Loucks-Best link

4/6/2020 10:05:01 am

The book setting is different from there every day life because they would be in school in a structured environment where teachers and adults set the rules. The author uses foreshadowing in the following passage: "Bollocks to the rules! We're Strong-we hunt- We're strong if there's a beast we hunt it down! we'll close in and beat it and beat it and beat!" This passage shows there every day life in a child ruled environment. It shows foreshadowing the killings that will happen later in the book because they say they will beat and beat it and beat it.

Carter Morse

4/15/2020 12:23:35 am

The setting in the book Lord Of The Flies is different from our everyday life because instead of having technology and more ways to communicate with people they don't have that, also they are on a inhabited island during WWII, those times were very different compared to our life now. To bring this world to life William Golding using imagery. For example he explained how hot it was "He knelt down and the arrow of the sun fell on him." He also described how the forest was by saying "The whole thicket bent and the roots screamed as they came out of the earth together."

Eric Olsen

4/17/2020 09:35:04 am

I believe that in Lord of The Flies, there was not only the problem of people lacking technology and the abilities to contact with humanity, but more importantly, there was no true grasp of psychology... So the tell signs of insanity and betrayal were hard to realize "Ralph laughed again…That was Simon…That was murder" Showing the 'accidental' killing of Simon, shows the tell tale signs of getting closer and closer to insanity

Sean Fagan

5/1/2020 01:08:51 pm

The reality of the world in Lord of the Flies is different from our world Because in Lord of the Flies Europe appear to be in the middle of a war. One piece of evidence that supports this is “Not them. Didn’t you hear what the pilot said? About the atom bomb? They’re all dead.” This indicates that Europe is in the middle of a nuclear war because when the plane left Britain an atom bomb was dropped later.

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