Piggy Lord Of The Flies Chapter Summary

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Teachers have a hard time selecting text for high schoolers. High schoolers and teachers only have 180 days with each other. Picking suitable and appropriate books are a very hard job with all the books in the world. Many teachers stick to classics even though they may contain inapt content. Although the Lord of the flies is a classic it isn't suitable for high school students because the books savagery outweighs educational value. Piggy’s idea of Jack’s ”tribe” highlights negative views of Native Americans and promotes racism. In the moments before Piggy’s death, he says, “Which is better-- to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is?” (180). Jack and his tribe were covered and pig blood, were “hunters”, and made tribal chants and screeches. Piggy uses “Indians” as an insult that is offensive to people of Native-American descent. “Indians“ in the context shows that the boys were uncivilized in which Native-Americans aren’t. Native Americans are wore face paint for wars and celebrations not be seen as uncivilized. The word “Indians” promotes that Indians are savages and that isn’t the message students should learn.…show more content…
After members of Ralph’s tribe went to Jack’s party there was a “dance”, and during the dance one of the boys said, “At once, the crowd surged after it, poured down on the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore.” (153). In this quote the beast is being attacked by the boys in various way after stumbling in the sand. From this quote we can see it’s unclear who the “beast” is and you can’t use context clues to even have a clue who it was. It even uses “it” to describe this “beast” who is unknown to us. You’ll have a really hard comprehending this novel if you aren’t sure of what is going on making this book not suitable to be
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