Sunday, September 12, 2010

Journal 1

On the first page Goldberg decides to create a careful, knowledgeable character who we soon learn is named Piggy. In creating this character he has brought the only child in the whole book who thinks before acting. Also when Goldberg puts spectacles on Piggy it makes him seem like a more intelligent persson, but he names him Piggy making him ridiculed. Throughout the book he is treated as a low life form, but gives the most helpful advice helping the children so many times. Piggy always thinks before he acts throughout the book especially when they have assemblies. Goldberg has also given you someone to feel sorry for, he has asthma and is overweight, he is almost just dead weight among all the children. Goldberg has created Piggy as the punching bag of this book but at the same time the character who is most intelligent and sane in the end.

On the first page Goldberg makes two alliterations first with the chapters title then second with the sentence "'Where's the man with the megaphone'". First the alliterations echo the sound of the ocean. Since they're on an island the sound of the ocean would be there all the time. The title foreshadows the assembly that is called later in the chapter. Also both the alliterations have to do with sound. It makes me think that sound is emphasized throughout the book.

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