Cry, The Beloved Country the difference of men and women

Alan Paton has both men and women characters in his book. He talks about them in different ways. He talks about women as more delicate people, unlike the men who aren't delicate at all. He described one women at the beginning of the 6th chapter as having a lot of money. That is the only women that was described that way. Everyone is very poor, but he talks about it and how taxing it is on the women. They save up as much  money as they can so they can buy things they need. When he talks of the men he conveys them as being strong and not fretting over what they need to be. They are focused on creating the money, so they can support their families.

Cry, The Belovded Country tabbing

I tabbed the stuff i tabbed because i feel like it had a very important meaning. It really set the tone for the whole book. The setting describes what the surroundings of the rest of the book will be. The people are pretty much poor over there which will be a struggle throughout the book. The author makes Johannesburg seem like a promised land in a way. He also makes it seem like a bad place in the eyes of some people.

Theme Lord of the Flies

Through out the whole book there are reoccurring themes, but one that really stood out to me was there must be consequences and someone to enforce them in order for people to respect the rules. "I got the conch!" Said Piggy indignantly. "Ralph they out to shut up oughn't they? You shut up you littluns!"(page92). This is a great example of how there are no punishments for what goes on the Island. Anyone can do what they want without getting in trouble. By Golding putting in characters like Piggy who try and gain order, but then knocking him down with characters like Jack and his followers it makes the theme even stronger. Characters like Ralph try and restore order in the Island but is worried about how people will perceive him. " Isn't there a man here?"(page 17). The boys know that they need an adult figure on the Island so they know what to do and keep things under control. As time passes they forget right and wrong and go with what is easiest for them. The setting helps speed up the process of the boys turning savage. They are surrounded by nothing except for ocean, with boys they have never met before. By the time the end of the book comes around they can't work together anymore and there is no discipline.

Lord of the Flies: How the book would change with female characters

Lord of the Flies would have changed a lot of the author would have added female characters to it. There would be a lot more order about the Island. Girls would have most likely devised a plan that worked for everyone and would have stuck to it. If this would have happened there wouldn't be as much conflict in the story, and if that same conflicts didn't happen then some of the themes wouldn't be needed anymore. Another thing that would have caused a problem with having girls in the book would be the attraction between the girls and boys. Which is another reason for the author to leave it out. He probably didn't want to deal with the relationships between them because it wasn't needed for him to get the theme's across. Girl's wouldn't have let the boys make fun of each other and single out the weak which is one of the key factors for when the boys turn on each other. It's a good thing the author didn't put any female characters in the book because most of the theme's and problems wouldn't have happened in the book.

Lord of the Flies author's decisions

     The author introduces Piggy with dialogue to begin with before anything else. The first thing you find out about piggy is what he says, and what language the author uses for him. " 'Hi!' It said. 'Wait a minute' ". It's interesting that the author uses it instead of he. One of the reasons for this is because later on in the book the boys don't see Piggy as a person they just see him as a burden that they have to put up with. The boys don't really consider Piggy's feelings or what they say to him.
       the first page didn't have any color description until the author described the bird. He said, "When a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards". The bird is described like a fire. Fire's are red and yellow and go upwards. This is foreshadowing for the fire at the end of the book, but also how important fire is in the book. The boys depend on fire to survive. They built a fire so they could be seen and they depended on that and kept it going all  the time. Also the fire when Simon get's killed the bird is foreshadowing towards that.