Chapters 8-9 1. About what does Uncle John feel guilty? 2. What is the first thing each of the Joads wants to know when Tom comes home? 3.
What sort of place is he looking for? What does he find? 6) What does Brian think about when he isn’t thinking about solving his immediate problems? 7) What does Brian do for food? 8) How does Brian try to start a fire?
At the beginning of the novel all of the children base their actions on rules that their fellow English men would follow, and in order to make these rules significant the children would use the conch as a symbol of authority. Sadly, the power the shell holds decreases as the boys’ savagery increases. It gets to the point where the conch becomes an ordinary shell, much like any other, and is destroyed by a boulder. “…the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist,” (Golding 181). In the end the conch shell was so meaningless that not one of the stranded boys cared for its lost.
Why do you think that Garnet tries to be things that he is not? (p18-19) 8. According to Lonnie and his family, why is family important? (p22) 9. What might Garnet learn from hanging around Lonnie’s family?
What is the independent variable? nervous situations How would you define it operationally? What is the dependent variable? conformity How would you define it operationally? Research Idea #2: Are people more or less creative in their work if they are pressured to be creative?
3. When Atticus asks Scout about the blanket around her shoulders, what does Jem realize? He realizes that Boo Radley snuck up behind Scout while they were watching the house on fire and slipped a blanket onto Scout to keep her warm in the cold night. 4. Explain what Atticus means by telling Jem not to let his discovery “inspire” him to “further glory”?
That is, who has the ‘upper hand’? Chapter 4: How is the giving and receiving of food related to hospitality? What breaches in etiquette does Bowen unwittingly commit? What do metaphors of space -- i.e., ideas of ‘near’ and ‘far’ mean? Chapter 5: What kinds of misunderstandings arise over the building of Bowen’s house?
When Jack leaves the tribe and takes most of the kids, Ralph knows that they need to make a fire somewhere else but on the mountain. When Piggy comes up with the great idea of making the fire near the pool everyone for the first notices the intelligence of Piggy. This is shown when Piggy comes up with a wonderful idea, “Only Piggy could have the intellectual daring to suggest the fire…” (Golding 129). Even though Ralph has not really valued Piggy’s thoughts in the past, but now Ralph finally notices Piggy’s intelligence. Bringing the fire near the pool is very helpful because now they will not have to go to the mountain.
Chapter 4 • What is Ron’s ‘lot’? What issues is he dealing with at this stage of his life? • How does Ben feel about his dad? Chapter 5 • Read the paragraphs describing the BBQ at the Guthrie’s. Discuss your impressions of the
We had seen his disappointment in Jack and his hunters for putting out the fire and now we see this taken up to another level. During this meeting the topic of conversation turns to the alleged 'beastie' as the boys are discussing it; one boy suggests that the beast naturally eats pig, this then jumps into another boys remark that: 'We eat pig' the possible causes for the authors input for this remark will be explained in the upcoming paragraphs. A while after in an effort to present his thoughts Simon says the following; `What I meant is... maybe it's only us. '...Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness. "-Simon This is when we first see the phrase 'mankind's essential illness' as a thought of Simons; showing his understanding of the matter is far superior to his age.