A Perfect Day for Bananafish/Lord of the Flies

2007-12-04 16:20:31

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For those who have read both texts, is there any way you can string them together somehow? For those who have read LotF but not Bananafish, it's a quick read. If you could just list the themes, motifs, symoblism, etc. of either that's fine as well.

Lord of the Flies is pretty simple to understand...but Bananafish is a little complicated. And I have to connect these two to yet ANOTHER text. Ugh. Help!

Original ideas, not a link to SparkNotes or something! Even if you think it's completely wrong, post it here, because that's what I need.

Last edited by haffeysucks (2007-12-04 16:22:56)

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2007-12-04 16:21:39

#2

Miggle: FUCK UBISOFT; +1,411|7222|FUCK UBISOFT

bananafish... didnt read

i did read lord of the flies though.

2007-12-04 16:22:19

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Miguel diaz wrote:
bananafish... didnt read

i did read lord of the flies though.

Themes, motifs, symbolism? Original ones I mean; I've already gone through SparkNotes.

"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"

2007-12-04 16:47:03

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ThaReaper: Banned; +410|7120

Dude! I'm reading Lord of The Flies for school like, now! I've gotten through 4 chapters.

EDIT: Have fun, btw.

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2007-12-04 16:51:34

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DesertFox-: The very model of a modern major general; +796|7165|United States of America

Lord of the Flies was pretty okay, I guess. Salinger though....Catcher in the Rye.....ugh....the horror....

/excessive elipses

2007-12-04 16:57:13

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thareaper254 wrote:
Dude! I'm reading Lord of The Flies for school like, now! I've gotten through 4 chapters.

EDIT: Have fun, btw.

simon dies piggy dies they get saved by the navy

2007-12-04 16:59:35

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Hurricane: Banned; +1,153|7110|Washington, DC

Miguel diaz wrote:
thareaper254 wrote:
Dude! I'm reading Lord of The Flies for school like, now! I've gotten through 4 chapters.

EDIT: Have fun, btw.
simon dies piggy dies they get saved by the navy

yeah i think piggy gets pwned by a boulder

2007-12-04 17:05:23

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thareaper254 wrote:
Dude! I'm reading Lord of The Flies for school like, now! I've gotten through 4 chapters.

EDIT: Have fun, btw.

hahah a fellow freshman

In chpter 5 I read World War Z when everyone else reads their Lord of the Flies book.

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2007-12-04 17:13:29

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DesertFox- wrote:
Lord of the Flies was pretty okay, I guess. Salinger though....Catcher in the Rye.....ugh....the horror....

/excessive elipses

What was Catcher in the Rye about? Haven't read it yet.

thareaper254 wrote:
Dude! I'm reading Lord of The Flies for school like, now! I've gotten through 4 chapters.

EDIT: Have fun, btw.

Not fun when you have an extremely tough teacher in Advanced English II. Thought this would be easy.

Hurricane wrote:
Miguel diaz wrote:
thareaper254 wrote:
Dude! I'm reading Lord of The Flies for school like, now! I've gotten through 4 chapters.

EDIT: Have fun, btw.
simon dies piggy dies they get saved by the navy
yeah i think piggy gets pwned by a boulder

Yeah he does. The boys kill Simon though, it's really sad, he was my favorite character. You know that he represents Jesus? (I don't believe in Jesus though)

Last edited by haffeysucks (2007-12-04 17:14:32)

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2007-12-04 17:20:44

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Yea I just got done reading this book last quarter. It was "somewhat" ok. The ending could have been better, but thats all I will say about that. As for the symbolism, the book is chock full of them. Simon represents jesus, but that was a pretty obvious one. Just see how Piggy, Ralph, and the conch all relate to like law, and the order of the island. Without those, everything would fall apart. And what the author is trying to get at is that this whole fiasco is like a scaled down version of the war that was going on outside of the island, with Britain. They all relate in some way. You just got to get creative.

And if you end up watching the movie, try to get the older version. The newer version is with American kids that are part of a military school, and all they do is swear every 5 seconds, even if it doesn't sound right. lol

2007-12-04 18:55:34

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AirForce wrote:
Yea I just got done reading this book last quarter. It was "somewhat" ok. The ending could have been better, but thats all I will say about that. As for the symbolism, the book is chock full of them. Simon represents jesus, but that was a pretty obvious one. Just see how Piggy, Ralph, and the conch all relate to like law, and the order of the island. Without those, everything would fall apart. And what the author is trying to get at is that this whole fiasco is like a scaled down version of the war that was going on outside of the island, with Britain. They all relate in some way. You just got to get creative.

And if you end up watching the movie, try to get the older version. The newer version is with American kids that are part of a military school, and all they do is swear every 5 seconds, even if it doesn't sound right. lol

Thanks for the true help. Everyone else just posted random shit, or good luck, or something like that.

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