are there any current situations in the world that relate to the novel?
what are they, and how fo they relate?
does the novel shed any light on how current situations could be resolved or "fixed"?
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The current situation that relates to the novel is a war; the war between Iraq and United States. It happened few months ago and this war was actually a big issue to the whole world. What happened was that the United States attacked Iraq. USA says that they attacked Iraq because of the terror they did before, but it was actually because of the petroleum. Iraq has lots of natural resources and if the United States took over the Iraq, they get to have all of them. So that is how the war began. The way United States attacked Iraq was intentionally for their benefit. This war had affected the whole world, because if Iraq can’t give petroleum, then the cost of the gas would increase. So what USA did was very selfish thing to do. Like Jack in the novel, he wants to do all the things in his way; selfishly, without thinking of how it could affect others. I think what Golding thought about the World War 2 is similar as how I think about the Iraq war. World War 2 was more severe and cruel than the Iraq war but both happened by the greed to get authority. To solve this problem, the best way is to share. When one country is lack of something, the other country can give or sell. By doing this way both countries can have what they need. If we live without sharing, then we will all be lack of something eventually.
1 comment:
Hi,Grace^^I'm Grace Lee~ I think you pointed out the important fact about what the author was trying to say. This world is full of evil acts of people, and the United States vs. Iraq war is what resulted of the evil being of humans, which you have gave a very good and modern example written down. Nice writing~:)
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