The Ever Changing Conch

Found Poem From William Golding's Lord of the Flies page 11

Phantoms of the lagoon
Abstently flicked
A shell of cream
Inches near the hands of
a deep hole

The shell was glistening
Not to be touched

Soon, it would fall
Into the deep mouth of the hole
Down, down, the shell fell

Down the shell lay, eighteen inches down
Pounds of soil pushed the shell deep
Weight pulling it into
The vivid, glistening water

The shell arose in a logoon, as a new shell
A conch
In the colour of green
With a pretty spiral twist

The conch is not touched any longer
as an excited
Ralph and Piggy make
A grap for it

LOTF Found Poem Link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLopL0T9iis

Found Poem

Penetrating heat danced on the naked children

Some were naked, carrying their clothes

Others half naked, more-or-less dressed

Fluttering like a bat, they leapt to the beach

More and more, taking their cue

The children walked singly or in twos

Crowds of hurrying feet crossed the sandy platform

Panting and grinning like dogs

Others concealed their fair heads in the dark forest

In the miles of palm and platforms of undergrowth

Brown, tangle-like, chestnut, sandy heads were trembling in shock

They waited for the loud blow

Piggy watched n the shadow of the fallen trunk,

Noticed a bat like creature

Dancing upon the hot sand

He speculated something was being done

A child's grin was concealed in the shadow

He waited.

Found Poem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAZBz0Htgc0

Final Thoughts on the Assignment

Here it comes. The conclusion. From my previous posts, you may have an idea about my opinions. Let's just say that it wasn't all fun and games during this project. Not to say that I was expecting that, but with most projects, I expect to have at least a little bit of fun. I did not have much fun working on this project. Stress was present almost every time I worked on this. It was simply difficult to slave away and finish the abysmal 'literature' known as Last of the Crazy People (I use the term literature VERY loosely). Moreover, I was confused regarding the blogging, twitter and commenting on other's blogs. Luckily, that was cleared up, so I'm not going to complain about that. What I will rant on is the amount of technology used. I am not a fan of complicating things with technology. What happened to good old fashioned pencil and paper? Maybe it's because I'm not good with technology, but still, I didn't enjoy using so much technology. Even though I learned how to make a Pecha Kucha, I still would rather have had a Prezi. Pecha Kucha's are boring to watch and prezi's are more engaging. I would rather watch cool transitions than look at pictures on a big screen and hear people talk. You can be more creative with Prezi's as well. Simple as that. I didn't like how we had to read Canadian novels, either. Let's face it, not a lot of good media comes out of Canada. Yes, I am proud to call myself Canadian, but our books, films, and music aren't that great. Nickelback, Carly Rae Jepsen, Nelly Furtado, Drake, Justin Beiber need I say more? Yes, I have learned a lot about Canadian life during this assignment, but stress outweighed that by far. I'm glad I won't have to deal with that anymore.

Last of the Crazy People Review

As I've previously said, I gave this novel a rating of 6 out of 10 on that scale. Well, after putting some thought into that, I've changed my mind. Words will do better justice rather than giving the novel a rating. I extremely dislike this book. Hate is not a word I throw around a lot, so I'm not going to use that word. Hate is too strong. However, if the novel was any more unexciting and bland than it was, than I would be comfortable saying that I hate this book. This book is simply abysmal. The ending didn't even do it for me, dispute being pretty good. The book basically describes the things that I do on a daily basis, such as go out for walks. I don't want to read about going for walks. If I wanted to walk, I would leave my house and go for a walk. Frankly, I experience the events going on in this book every single day. That's how little happens in the book. Unfortunately, I could not grasp the message or meaning of this book at first. I had to do a little bit of research. This is because most of this book's information went in one ear and out the other. The book didn't have anything interesting going on, so I couldn't soak up any information. Luckily for me, I wasn't missing out on much since this book is mostly about daily family activities in which I experience every day of my life, with some deaths. Overall, this book was no fun to read. I got the wrong impression going into this book, so that's probably why. I don't see myself reading another book by Timothy Findley. This book gave me a really bad representation of what Canadian literature is like. Sure, I've learned some things, but nothing I can necessarily apply to my life. I would not recommend this book to anyone that can read.

WOW!!!!! What an ending!

So I've finally finished reading the book. In all honesty, it wasn't that great. If I were to give it a rating out of 10, it would probably be a 6. Not bad yet not superb. I REALLY liked the ending though. I gave this book a higher rating solely because of the ending. To my surprise, there was a plot twist. I was told there was going to be one, but after reading the first portion of the book, I didn't see one coming. I thought that even if there was one, that it would be bad. Boy, was I wrong! When one of my friends told me about the ending, I was in utter shock. I'm not upset that Daniel told me, because I'm a sucker for a good spoiler. In fact, after I got information from Daniel, I went to David for more information! Although Daniel was upset that the novel was spoiled for him, I was happy. I'm fighting the urge to tell you all about the ending, but I'm sure that not everyone is a big fan of spoilers such as myself. I think the ending is worth all of the mediocrity that I've been put through. The fact that the book was boring and the ending was awesome made it all worthwhile. Not to mention, the shocker was better because I thought the book would stay bland, which it did not. I think that all of the boring stuff that I've put up with became worth it because of the perfect ending.