Song of the moment: "Gyoung-Go" by Tashannie
I am feeling: PAIN FROM MY TEETH


DAMNIT. Tommorow, I get to miss the second day of open gym for basketball just to get THREE of my teeth. Not only that, but I also have an appointment next Monday for a stuf root canal. Ugh.... like what Ray said, that's what I get for eating too much twinkies. D:

Anywho... I'll blog two seperate blogs for today. This one, for the posting of my stupid essay for English. This is an essay for the book, "Lord of the Mother Fucking Flies" by William Golding. I would be suprized if my root canal would be as painful as reading this book from page 1 to a gabazillion. -_-;


Of Younger Youth
The impact of influence on everyone;
expecially those dealing with the eager trepidation
of what's ahead, what's right and what is contradictorily wrong

Who are you? Do you know what, or who made you…. You? The way you talk, act and do things: Do you suppose that you picked up every slang, fad or look that you have just by being yourself? That would be impossible. Everyone has someone that they look up to; whether being their big brother, a super hero or any candidate around them that is mentally and physically capable of having an impact on that certain individual. Basically, we were born to first learn, and then eventually experience what we’ve actually learned. The things that we learn from when we were a baby to when we’re out of school is what makes us… uniquely enough, “us”, meaning, our inimitable selves. “Unmatchable” enough, we still have certain aspects that are extremely familiar or exactly like the people before and around us. We experience different personalities and by being around certain people with an uncanny ability to influence young minds around them, we start to pick up their unique trademark and signature slang. A great literature example of such human behavior is found in the book written by William Golding called, Lord of the Flies. Single handedly, Golding produced such a good example of the influence people have around those who are younger than they, or even of the same age. He writes about the influence of good behavior, trust, loyalty and the incongruous affect of the influence of bad behavior.

First of all, due to Ralph’s impact and leadership at the beginning of the book, the youngins immediately fall into silence when he blew the intimidating and powerful conch, seemingly following after the example of the older kids. Even with the immaturity level of the young ones [obviously, as they are young], they become more attentive and give their undivided attention to Ralph because the older kids showed them an example of good behavior. With the older kids’ obedience to their leader, the youngins follow like another flock amongst the herd.

Secondly, the trust and bond between two people can be disturbed by the influence of others and the impulse to gain their respect; from making themselves look better by making others look bad. For example, when Piggy specifically asked Ralph to keep his nickname a secret, Ralph still tells the group the name that Piggy has always dreaded being called in the past and present. The facial and verbal reaction that Piggy gave Ralph in retaliation, obviously showed how extremely mad and infuriated he was at Ralph’s disloyalty. “You told ‘em. After what I said.” Piggy confronted Ralph after the rest of the group’s refusal for him to go along with their expedition, “I said I didn’t care as long as they didn’t call me Piggy….” (25). But Ralph went and told them anyway, and in some weird natural human reaction, the group lost a portion of the respect that they had for Piggy after hearing about what other people used to call him. Concluding this assumption, here’s an imitation to the point of view of the other kids:

Just because other kids called him that before, I suppose it’s okay for me to point, laugh and bring him down like the rest has done in the past, right? And since everyone else is doing it, I might as well do it along with them. It’s the “cool” thing to do… Right?

In sequence, even after the insignificant conflict between Ralph and Piggy, the two seem to keep loyal to each other even to the certain unchangeable conclusion at the end [the death of Piggy on page 180]. With all of the temptation that the other group [Jack’s hunters], Ralph remains “civilized” and supports Piggy, as Piggy does the same. In this particular situation, the influence that others had to offer never once reached the heads of the two sagaciously intelligent individuals. Henceforth, the two managed to stop the natural instinct to “see and do”. From what they learned from before, they managed to know between right and wrong—specifically being, from the civilized way of rules and leadership, to the chaotic lifestyle of killing and non-conservative ways as the hunters carried on as. For example, Piggy tries to reason out the rest of the group by giving a small speech right before he was massacred by a big boulder, “Which is better—to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?” (180). Sadly, Piggy’s good judgment and integrity is outrageously outnumbered by the bad influence of Jack, Roger and the rest of the negatively prestigious young boys.

Lastly, the consecutive examples of Jack’s misleading guidance to the group of the hunters eventually turned out for the worse [in terms of the “good guys” like Ralph and Piggy]. Jack’s obsession with killing and the hunting of pigs [and later on, kids of their own specie] has influenced the latter of the group and towards the end, the entire group in no extension with either Ralph nor Piggy. His negative leadership along with Roger’s notorious “bully” ways has corrupted the way the rest of the group thinks. Their leadership with the killing of Piggy, the hunting of Ralph and their enforced influence on Sam and Eric critically shows one of the worst parts of our natural instinct to follow after the influence of other people.

In conclusion, the influence of the people around a certain individual can have a huge affect on that person’s thoughts, feelings and judgment. Not once in history, was there ever a person who never once picked up and a single interpretation and imitated the same thought or action. We carry on with our lives from the lives of other people in derivativeness—call it being a copycat, or just another eager mind in ponders of its possibilities. Ponder, as to which, the minds of other people. We ask ourselves questions of what action is right or wrong—integrity wise or social wise; we gaze around the influence of other people for guidance and [positive or not] for leadership.




Yeah. I can't blog right now.... this took me almost an hour to just copy and paste because i'm talking to way toooooooo many people at the same time. x_X;;;;;