Dialectical Journal

Extra #2: Dialectical Journal Ch. 1-3

Quote | Significance |

"[There was] something dark...fumbling along....The creature was a party of boys, marching approximately in...two parallel lines...." (18). | The appearance of the two parallel lines of boys is an introduction of the choirboys. The choirboys are very representative at the moment of a sort of either army or following people of a dictator, namely Jack. This is foreshadowing of the future events in the struggle for leadership and power over the entire group between the main protagonist introduced earlier, Ralph, and Jack, who is already leading his choirboys in an orderly fashion and under his own agenda. |

"'We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything’” (40). | This is the emergence of a call to action for societal order among the group of boys in an effort to preserve a unity and orderliness that was found in the previous society they had lived in. They specifically state that they should keep these rules because they are not savages. This may be foreshadowing of a breakdown in structure and society between them, as they have no set rules or laws among them and nobody to enforce them, as they are all about equal with the exception of the littluns; thus, the society that they so desire under the rules they set up is likely to be lost upon the deserted island. |

"Then, amid the roar of bees in the afternoon sunlight, Simon found for [the littluns] the fruit they could not reach... [and] passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands” (51). | The character of Simon is introduced in a way that grants him a personality of generosity and benevolence for those around him. In Freudian psychoanalysis, he would easily be considered an embodiment of the superego, as his actions of handing the fruits to those who could not reach them is are acts of kindness and selflessness. Later, it is also seen that he makes sure the...