Summary Of Palean's Narrative Fiction

On the story, she commented, “Explaining just what I had hoped the story to say is very difficult. I supposed that by setting a particular brutal ancient rite in the present and in my village the story’s readers with a dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.”

When she finally dies, ‘hot blood [spouts] over his hands and he and the other boys are ‘heavy and fulfilled upon her’. Golding explicitly emphasises through the use of the pronouns ‘her’ and ‘she’ the sex of the pig and the language clearly refers to the passionate fervour associated with not only violence but also sexual domination. It is at this point of the novel that the boys’ ultimate rejection of social responsibility is complete. While Ralph and Piggy, the novel’s moral arbiters, look on in disgust, they are powerless in the face of the raw, masculine group mentality of the others. In Golding’s relatively neutral third-person narration, Robert ‘stabilized the thing in a phrase which was received uproariously’, the phrase in question: ‘Right up her ass!’ Arguably, the horror of the misogyny of the scene is heightened by the exclusively male culture that has been constructed on the island. A feminist reading may also see it as telling that the least stereotypically masculine characters in Lord of the Flies, Simon and Piggy, are killed by the other boys. Their deaths serve to represent not only the dominance of males in society but also the rejection of typically feminine characteristics – reason, diplomacy and sensitivity.

In William Golding’s novel, The Lord of the Flies, a large group of privileged English schoolboys are stranded on an island in the Pacific with no adults after the plane they were on crash-landed. The boys are brought together by the Conch that is blown by Ralph in the beginning of the book. The conch is symbolic of order and authority in the book. The boys go under a transformation of these privileged schoolboys to a group of rag tag savages trying to kill each other for power throughout the course of this book. This essay will be outlining the transition from good boys that listen to authority, into boys that rely on their id of savagery, and the descent to evil, destruction and panic through the journey and

Next, Butler moves on to portray a close-up view of Dana’s laceration, “My blouse was stuck to my back. It was cut to pieces, really, but the pieces were stuck to me … The skin of my back stretched agonizingly, and the water got pinker” (Butler 113). The vivid visual of Dana’s injury and the unbelievable harm of the whips are so realistic to readers with the use of connotative diction such as “pieces,” “agonizingly,” and “blood.” The readers’ sympathy towards Dana and the slaves intensifies as the magnitude of pain and the disturbing level of the cut elevate.

She requested for clothes in jail and I wondered which clothes would make her feel most comfortable. She is a farm lady she needs an outfit that will suit her simple status. The men leading the investigations have no appreciation for the women in the house. They are all over looking for evidence, and they evidently do not need our support. They must be underestimating the power of women. As the investigations are underway, I am left thinking to myself what kind of a man was Winnie’s husband. He was a man of dignity because he did not drink like other men. But he was silent and he kept most thinks to himself, Winnie must have been bored by her husband’s antisocial

One day while Laura and Carmilla were scavenging to find food a group of the soldiers said,” You have been wandering and asking for food, the king will not allow that to happen.,”

“It was December and the weather bitterly cold. She was a tiny mite, the size of five years, though, as afterward appeared, she was then nine. From a pan set upon a low stool she stood washing dishes, struggling with a frying pan about as heavy as herself. Across the table lay a brutal whip of twisted leather strands and the child's meagre arms and legs bore many marks of its use. But the saddest part of her story was written on her face in its look of suppression and misery, the face of a child unloved, of a child that had seen only the fearsome side of life. These things I saw while seeming not to see, and I left without speaking to, or of, the child. I never

Sarah slugged through the early morning work and realized-too soon- that she needed to make a trip to the house. She made her way, clasping her arms around her for warmth in the cold November morning. Painted Girl’s borrowed sweater did not help dissipate the cold air, and neither did the lingering whiskey in her system. A light shone in the window illuminating Grandfather and Dingle, who sat at the table together eating pie. She watched as Dingle grabbed a juicy strawberry from Grandfather’s pie and nibbled at it greedily. Grandfather must have finished his hunt early, Sarah realized. She had hoped to avoid Grandfather today but nature called. There was no choice, either the woods or the house. Sarah did an about turn and went for the

She was so weary from the traveling and what she had been going through. She silently watched what was going on in her new surroundings. Other Indians came in through the outside door, said something to Mahonoy in a very respectful manner, and then disappeared to another part of the longhouse. Amelia was beginning to understand that the longhouse was a place several people lived in, with rooms separated by partitions. It was late, and Mahonoy raked coals together in the fire for the night and cleaned up her cooking area. Amelia watched her work and looked closer at the middle-aged woman's attire. She had a soft leather skirt on that came halfway to her ankles. It appeared not to be tight or hard to move in, although it was made of thin leather. The hem of it was cut all around into narrow fringe that hung around her ankles like tassels. On her body she wore a loose fitting tunic that came down over the top of the skirt. It was made of the same type of leather skin. The tunic had no sleeves to it and the neckline at the top was just an opening cut straight across for the head to go through. It had fringe along the bottom of the tunic also. The waist was cinched in by a belt tied into a knot. She wore a small decorated pouch on a long leather thong around her neck that hung down like a pendant. Her hair had been black but now was streaked with grey, straight and long. She had a fabric headband tied around her forehead with some geometric decorations and feathers tied on it that hung down by the side of her head. On her feet were moccasins that had tops coming halfway up to her knees. Amelia thought she recognized silver coins with holes drilled in them, sewn onto the moccasins as decorations along with some colorful beads. Mahonoy's hands were the hands of a woman who has done hard work. Her fingers were broad and had knarled knuckles and short, nails. Once in awhile when she moved to lift something Amelia heard a

Larissa Jordan was a peppy young girl, especially for one who grew up on the Black Isles of Doracha. As a child, she had never been told of the island's’ dark history, nor had she been told of the reasons why families were forced to move away from the mainlands and onto the Isles. And what you don’t know can’t hurt you. At least, that’s what Larissa’s parents believed; and for twelve years, twelve blissfully peaceful years, they appeared to be correct.

The narrator says, “ She was plotting now to get me to stay in the house more, although she knew I hated it and keep me from working for my father.(pg. 307) This statement is describing how important these roles were to the manipulative parental figures in her life. The father did not believe in the stereotypical women roles, which lead to him making her a hired man. During the winter, the family keeps and kills two horses to feed the foxes with horse meat. The name of the horses was Mack and Flora, which were a single female and male horse. Mack was the male horse who was characterized as a old black workhouse, sooty, and indifferent. (pg. 308) This statement describes how the stereotypical male in society should be like in the 1960 's. The male should have the characteristics of workhorse in the field of working in the 1960 's. Flora was a female who was characterized as an sorrel mare, a driver.(pg. 308) This statement describes how dominant she was a female horse. In contrast, the female women was not the dominant gender in the 1960 's , because of the limitations and lack of opportunities created by the predominantly gender of males. The narrator says, “ the word girl had formerly seemed to me

She gladly obeyed, and stepped into Lauren’s house, blood trailing in her wake. Lauren swallowed and closed the door behind her. “I’ll just grab a cloth. Wait

White describes Fern as “Mrs. Arable was tucking Fern into bed” (White 143). Similarly, Charlotte, while conversing with Wilbur “could tell by the sound of his breathing that he was sleeping peacefully, deep in the straw” (White 143). Both Mrs. Arable and Charlotte appear to be performing the same task—“tucking” a child into bed. This comparison between Charlotte and Mrs. Arable reveals a deeper meaning to Butler’s argument that “Gender might be said, in fact, to constitute the identity it is purported to be” (Nodelman and Reimer 242). The description of Mrs. Arable tucking Fern into bed indicates a duty that many mothers identify with.

For the privilege of marrying Laban's beautiful youngest daughter Rachel, Jacob labored for seven years on Laban's land. Despite Jacob's years of faithful service, Laban tricked Jacob into first marrying his less attractive older daughter, Leah, and then demanded seven more years of hard work before finally agreeing to hand over Rachel to Jacob. Feeling frustrated with Laban's deceptiveness after his second seven-year tenure of hard work, Jacob gathered up all of his personal belongings, including Leah and Rachel, and fled to the hill country of Gilead. Laban chased after him. When Laban finally caught up with him, Laban scolded Jacob, saying," You have deceived me, and you've carried off my daughters like captives in war."

Lord of the Flies is a novel written by the Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding about a group of schoolboy stuck on a deserted island, attempting to establish a well-organized society but fail. The story lacks a real female character. Hence, most critics pay no attention on this issue. Nevertheless, the issue of femininity is implicitly presented in the story; male characters are rejecting the femininity. For example, in the protagonist Ralph’s memory, he never read one of the books standing on his shelf because that is the book about two girls (Golding 112). Also, when the boys’ hair grow longer due to the long stay on the island, they refuse to tie the hair back since it would be like girls (Golding 172). The novel embodies the confrontation between masculinity and femininity. In light of this, this paper argues that by considering Piggy the representative of femininity, Lord of the Flies illustrates how the exclusive nature of masculinity repudiates femininity, which causes the final disintegration of the society on the island.