والله العظيم ياأستاذ طارق أنك ابن حلال وقد فعلت معى مالم أحلم به فى أن يتم تثبيت موضوع لى على البوابة ولذا ستنفرد هذه البوابة الكريمة اليوم السبت 18/4/2009 بنشر القصص التى وضعوها فى الكتاب المدرسى والتى هى من الأدب العالمى وهم ستة روايات تم مسخهم ليصبحوا على الهيئة التى سترونها فى الكتاب المدرسى ويذلك تكون بوابة الثانوية العامة هى أول من انفرد بنشر المنهج ومايحتويه كاملا
Gulliver's Travels Retold
Once upon a time Gulliver wanted to travel. He didn’t like the crowded city of London. He went on a ship. One night when Gulliver was sleeping, a storm hit the ship. The huge waves swallowed Gulliver and his shipmates.
Gulliver awoke on a grassy land. When he opened his eyes he found out that his arms, legs, head, and chest were tied up! He struggled to break one arm free. He felt something move up his leg. It was a person no bigger than a spoon.
There were more such people. Some ran away, some stayed and shot arrows the size of needles. The arrows did not hurt Gulliver. Then he heard someone shout. It was a man who was standing on a platform and he was their Emperor. He had to shout to be heard. Gulliver did not understand their language. They were the Lilliputians.
The Emperor demanded a basket of bread and meats up to his mouth. The little people, known as Lilliputians, dropped enough food to feed two hundred of their families!
Even their tallest building could not fit Gulliver inside. So they untied Gulliver and chained him to a cart which five hundred little carpenters had built. And nine hundred of their strongest men pulled him into their temple. He was thankful to have a roof on top.
When Gulliver was fast asleep the Lilliput children played hide-and-seek in his hair. Gulliver loved to amuse the kids. Some people were brave enough to lift the children up and they taught him how to speak. And he could then talk to them without crouching.
The children danced, and used Gulliver’s hand as a dance floor. Then came the day that Gulliver would be released from his chains. He spoke softly around them. He made promises. Once free, he helped them with a war between the Lilliputians and the Befersce. Hurray! The Lilliputians won!
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Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
Herman Melville was born in New York City in 1819. Because of his family's financial instability, Melville was forced to go to work at an early age. After a variety of jobs, Melville signed onto a whaling ship at age twenty. Through this employment he learned firsthand about the rigors and rewards of the burgeoning whaling industry, gaining experience that he would later apply in the writing of his mid-nineteenth- century novel Moby Dick.
Events in History at the Time the Novel Takes Place
An expanding nation. The first half of the nineteenth century was an important time in the development of the United States. In the War of 1812, the country had succeeded in defending its borders against the British. This victory created a strong new sense of patriotism among Americans, and the country finally began to form a solid identity completely separate from its European roots. To maintain this new identity, it became necessary to keep the foreign powers at bay. American leaders realized that the best way to deter aggression was to expand and strengthen the nation from the inside. In 1816 trade barriers were erected to promote domestic industry and keep foreign products from American markets.
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Lord of the Flies
The original UK Lord of the Flies book cover
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248 pp (first edition, paperback)
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Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies is an allegorical novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding. It discusses how culture created by man fails and how man shall always turn to barbarism, using parallels of a group of school-boys stuck on a deserted island who unsuccessfully try to govern themselves and consequently have disastrous results. Its stances on the already controversial subjects of human nature and individual welfare versus the common good earned it position 70 on the American Library Association's list of the 100 most frequently challenged Books of 1990–2000.[1] The novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.[2] Published in 1954, Lord of the Flies was Golding's first novel, and although it was not a great success at the time — selling fewer than three thousand copies in the United States during 1955 before going out of print — it soon went on to become a bestseller, and by the early 1960s was required reading in many schools and colleges. It was adapted to film in 1963 by Peter Brook, and again in 1990 by Harry Hook (see "Film adaptations"). The title is said to be a reference to the Hebrew name Beelzebub (בעל זבוב, Ba'al-zvuv, "god of the fly", "host of the fly" or literally "Lord of Flies"), a name sometimes used as a synonym for Satan.[3] It may also be a reference to a line from King Lear - "As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods, — They kill us for their sport". (King Lear Act IV, Scene 1[1])
Plot summary
The story begins with a large number of young boys, ages 6 to 12, stranded on a tropical island with no tools to survive, except for a knife. They were being evacuated from a war and their plane had been shot down. The first two characters are Ralph, an athletic and charismatic boy with fair hair, and "Piggy," a fat boy with glasses who also suffers from asthma. The two boys obtain a conch shell and use it to call the other boys from across the island. The boys begin to discuss who should be their leader. Ralph is chosen by vote, but one other potential leader arises — Jack Merridew. Jack was a choir leader and still acts as leader of all the other castaway members of his choir. Jack's natural arrogance lead him to proclaim himself chief, but one of the other boys suggests a vote. Ralph is elected as leader, but because Ralph senses the threat, he appoints Jack to be the leader of the hunters (the choir). Piggy is the least popular of the boys but is intelligent and becomes Ralph's "lieutenant," having civilized values but no way to carry them out. However, it is evident that Jack covets the leadership position. Then, Ralph takes Jack and Simon to explore the island. During their exploration they find a trapped piglet. Jack pulls out a knife but hesitates to kill the piglet, and it escapes. Jack vows never to hesitate again. Early on, the boys are full of optimism and expect the island to be fun, despite the fact that many of the boys are scared of a "Beast" — allegedly some kind of dangerous wild animal on the island seen by one of the younger boys with a birthmark on his face. The boys then make their first attempt at being rescued by starting a signal fire, lit by Piggy's glasses. The fire burns without control and scorches a good portion of the island. The boy with a birthmark on his face who saw the Beast goes missing during the fire and is never seen again. Some believe it is reasonable to think that the child with the birthmark was trapped and killed by the fire. This is further supported by the boys' reluctance to mention or even think about him. The major characters Jack and Ralph have conflicting aims for the island; life on the island begins to deteriorate and becomes more and more disorganized. The island's descent into chaos starts, ironically, with the potential for rescue by a passing ship. Jack's increasing obsession with hunting had led him to take a group off hunting and took with him the boys who were tending to the signal fire, so the fire died out, resulting in the ship sailing past without knowing of the boys on the island. An intense argument ensues in which one lens of Piggy's glasses is broken by Jack. Although the signal fire is maintained along with a false sense of security, the order among the boys quickly deteriorates as Jack and Ralph continue to struggle for power. Jack has a way to tell people what they want to hear, and Ralph soon loses control over his friends. As the novel takes place during an atomic war (one of the boys mentions the dropping of the "atom bomb",) a dogfight between two planes occurs over the island. One of the pilots parachutes out of his plane but dies upon or before landing. Sam and Eric assume that the pilot is the Beast when they see him in the dark, causing mass panic. An expedition to investigate leads to Ralph, Jack, and Roger ascending the mountain, but they eventually run away from what they believe is the Beast. Jack denounces Ralph as a coward and calls for another election for chief but does not receive a single vote. He leaves the group to create a new tribe. Most of the older boys, members of the choir, eventually leave Ralph's tribe to join Jack's tribe. Jack becomes a tyrant on "Castle Rock" with his followers, whom Ralph thinks of as "the savages." The new tribe hunts down and slaughters a mother sow, crossing the line from hunters to savages, and Jack decides to host a feast. Before that, they sever the pig's head and place it on a stick as an "offering" to the Beast. Flies swarm around the head of the pig. Simon comes across it and has a hallucination. He hears the dead pig(or self proclaimed 'Lord of the Flies') speaking to him and telling him to do things. Collapsing from a seizure, he discovers that the "beast" is in fact the evil in every human being, and then finds the corpse of the parachutist. He unties the parachutist from his perch. Realizing that the corpse is the thing that has been frightening them all this time he staggars down from the mountain to break the news. However, when he arrives, it is raining terribly, and because he is still weak from the seizure and only cabable of staggaring and crawling, the boys, who were worked up in their war dance, mistake Simon for the Beast and tear, bite, claw, and stab him to death. Ralph's tribe dwindles in number. Jack's larger, less civilized tribe, however, needs to steal items from them to maintain their existence. They steal Piggy's glasses to light a fire. Piggy demands his glasses back but is killed by a boulder Roger launches at Ralph. The boulder crushes the conch shell and sends Piggy off a cliff. Jack's tribe captures Sam and Eric and forces them to join their tribe. Jack tries and fails to kill Ralph, and the next day, his tribe tries to hunt him down. In doing this, they set a forest fire. The fire is seen by a passing naval vessel, and one of the ship's officers comes ashore and rescues Ralph and the boys. Ralph declares to the captain of the ship that he is the leader of the children, and for the first time on the island, Ralph cries. The marine officer turns his face away from Ralph and all the weeping children and stares at the horizon of the sea, where his naval vessel also shines in gray and silver.
Allusions/references to other works
The Coral Island
In 1857, R.M. Ballantyne wrote a book called The Coral Island. It portrayed three boys: Ralph, Peterkin and Jack (two of these names are transferred to Golding's book; Peterkin is altered to Simon) landing on an island, much like that in Lord of the Flies. They have great adventures, typical of much children's fiction written during the period of the British Empire. It was very successful. Golding read The Coral Island as he was growing up, and thought of Ballantyne as racist, since the book teaches that evil is associated with black skin and is external. In Chapter 11 of the original Lord of the Flies, Piggy calls Jack's tribe "a pack of painted niggers." The term was not viewed as offensive in 1950s British society as it is today, being seen as a descriptive (rather than abusive) term for people of dark skin. In any case, the word was changed to "savages" in some editions and "Indians" in the mass media publication. A number of references to The Coral Island are made in Lord of the Flies. To a certain extent, it can be said that Golding wrote this book as a response to The Coral Island, to show what boys would truly do if left alone on an island and to compare two different versions of boys' activities when left on their own.[4] In Chapter 2, the boys speculate about what will happen, saying it will be "like in a book", mentioning "Treasure Island", "Swallows and Amazons" and "Coral Island". When the officer is on the island at the end he says "like the Coral Island".
Film Adaptations
Lord of the Flies (1990) DVD cover
There have been two film adaptations.
Lord of the Flies in popular culture
Lord of the Flies has influenced or inspired multiple cultural works.
Literature
Television
Lord of the Flies inspired Sunrise Animation's classic anime series Infinite Ryvius, which follows the lives of nearly 500 teenagers stranded aboard a space battleship. Lord of the Flies has been referenced multiple times in The Simpsons. The episode "Das Bus" is a parody of the book, with a plotline involving about castaway school children on a deserted island. Many direct references are made to the book, including the use of glasses to make fire, calling meetings with a conch, a monster lurking in the forest of the island, and stronger kids chasing after "the nerds". In another Simpsons episode, Kamp Krusty, the Lord of the Flies novel can be seen in a shot, during a scene related to the takeover of a camp by children. Lord of the Flies is referenced several times (often jokingly) in the TV drama Lost which is also set on a deserted island where the characters feel they are constantly under the threat of turning wild. In an interview, the creator of the reality show Kid Nation stated that the show was based on the novel, where 40 kids run their town, without adults, for a certain amount of time.
Film
Lord of the Flies has also served as a source of inspiration in film. According to film critic Benjamin Urrutia, the main sequence of Apocalypto – the lone hero being chased through the tropical jungle by fierce spear-wielding hunters, ending with an encounter on the beach by men from the outside world – mirrors the scene from the Lord of the Flies.[7] In addition, a film adaptation of the book was one of the main inspirations for the reality TV show Survivor, according to host Jeff Probst.
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(إن لله عباداً اختصهم بقضاء حوائج الناس،حببهم إلى الخير،وحبب الخير إليهم،هم الآمنون من عذاب الله يوم القيامة)
آخر تعديل بواسطة El Sayed Siam ، 18-04-2009 الساعة 10:25 PM
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