segunda-feira, 11 de abril de 2011

Making Connections

Last Friday our lit circle spent way too long discussing a weak connection between our book, "Lord of the Flies", and the television series "Lost". We've explored that before, but only this time we realized how shallow our comparison would be due to the fact that none of us actually watched more than a few random episodes of the show, hence we could never be thorough enough when trying to explain specific similarities. Never the less we commented at least about the presence of the beast in both the book and the series. While in the book you end up with the conclusion that the beast was pure fear and the evil inside the children's hearts, which was there already just waiting for the stress of the unknown and the despair to trigger it as they start to notice that they lost everything that represented safety for them: "Grown-ups know things (...) They ain't afraid of the dark. They'd meet and have tea and discuss. Then things 'ud be all right-" p. 101; in the series "lost" the approach is much more supernatural and "real" (to the characters), the beast is not a constant doubt, it is a fact. You can see it in the form of a thick black smoke that somehow is able to kill people, and as they say in 'Lord of the Flies' grown-ups tend to be more reasonable and would not be so easily scared without any evidence that their fears are justified, so I guess it was important to have this little change to make what is hunting them concrete enough so they can feel afraid of it. In a smaller note, both stories start with a plane crash with several survivors into an island, which is highly unlikely, since this kind of accident is one of most lethal and having one single person walking out intact would be already too lucky. In conclusion I think that now that most of the group has finished the whole book we can finally go to the most interesting connections that can be found near the end, and we'll try to do that in the next opportunity we have to share our thoughts in class.

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