Last L.A. class of 2013

From the first day of school, Language Arts seemed like the hardest class. It is the only class that required summer assignment that kept me literate during summer; I usually neither read nor write in summer. Soon, as the time flows, my L.A. class of 2013 started to learn about Joseph Campbell's Hero's Adventure. I started to realize that this class is different from any of my former L.A. classes and that this is going to be very challenging. The real thing started from Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal. As well as learning satires, I also began to write formal essays, using and analyzing quotes from the text and relating it to the real life. Then, starts the never-lasting creepiness of Sir William Golding. Golding's Lord of the Flies was the longest and most time spent piece of the semester. I wrote lots of both formal and informal essays, journals, and reflections.

This L.A. class was very challenging. Even with the fact that L.A. isn't my strongest subject, I'm barely maintaining a good grade. The amounts of essays I had to write and the quality of essays it had to be really drove me crazy, sometimes. However, as much as it was challenging, I believe I had a dramatic improvement in my skills of writing. Moreover, I learned that literature is more than just a fable or a story but also contains deeper meaning into it. This class really helped me for college preparation.

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies, from the beginning, was a book of my taste. The novel was plotted in an island, main characters are young boys, and they were representetives of human being. However, as I read, I began to realize that the strory was more deep than I ever imagined. On the last chapters of the novel, the island becomes a chaotic place; Jack steals the specs from Piggy and Piggy gets murdered by Roger. Ralph, who escapes, soon faces the hunting of Jack and Roger. Unlike the previous chapters, Roger became significant to the boys; the twins quote, "You don't know Roger. He's a terror" (Golding 195). With the fact that Roger killed Piggy, it proves that Roger may have equivalent or higher degree of evilness than Jack. When Ralph is running from Jack, "They had smoked him out and set the island on fire" (Golding 202). Ironically, Ralph gets rescued by a naval officer who visited the island because he saw the smoke. Ralph quotes "And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy" (Golding 208). Ralph and other boys on the island lost their innocence and darkness too well to go back to childhood. I thought it was funny how Ralph called Piggy as a friend because even to the moment of Piggy being killed, Ralph didn't listen to Piggy.