WEEK 10

Welcome to final exam week. 

Here's your work....

1. LOTF essay...
Choose one of the pre-write topics from last week and write a well-argued, thoroughly supported, carefully proofed essay. Here they are again:

• the motif of rock throwing as a means of tracking the descent of the boys into savagery [Most of you missed a key piece for this topic in your pre-writes from last week: Look carefully at the differences between the rock throwing in chapters 11 and 12. Was Roger's intention in c11 the same as Ralph's in c12?]
• Ralph's attempt to keep himself from savagery. Where is he successful? Where does he fail?
• Golding's use of symbolism (You'll need to do more than just catalog the uses. Propose something that ties the symbols together. What do they share?) 
• Simon as a Christ figure

2. ATTC / LOTF essay...
Write a concise, well-supported, carefully proofed essay on the following:

Both A Tale of Two Cities and Lord of the Flies depict the good and bad of human society as traceable to the individual heart. Dickens suggests that individuals can be either good or evil or have some mix of the two. Golding takes a more pessimistic view and proposes that selfishness is (practically) universal. Which view is closer to a biblical understanding of human nature? Though you'll need to propose one novel or the other, you will still need to handle both texts as you discuss them.



REQUIREMENTS...
1400-word MAXIMUM for both essays COMBINED. You may need to be strategic here and figure out which essay needs more word count to do the job and which can be shorter (this is a good time to practice cutting unnecessary phrasing!).

The essays will be joined into one 200-point final exam. 

Did you catch that the 1400 words is a maximum, not a minimum? And that's for the two essays COMBINED? 

You saw that then? 

Ok, just making sure.  

Due FRIDAY night. 


Have a great week!