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Why you should rethink reading The Lord of the Flies

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  Image: Apple TV Have you ever read “The Lord of the Flies” if your answer is yes I have a question for you, you actually enjoyed those 288 pages? If your answer is still yes… we have serious problems. (Not really lol) From my perspective The Lord of the Flies is a really good story, the fact that there are only children in a random island w/o parents or an adult there is a really cool concept, also the fact that they started doing their own “hierarchy” and social rules it's really fun to read It's also really cool the fact that the author reflected so much evilness in the children given us a little understanding of how cruel a human being can be for people not being on their same side, yes. I'm mostly talking about piggy's death when the other gang “accidentally ” throw this big a*s rock to him crushing him to death, also when Simon got brutally killed because they thought he was the “monster” that everyone was talking abt… oh my! sorry ig this is a spoiler alert...

I just keep going back to him

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  Image: GQ María Jose Vargas                            November 13, 2022 This blog is a creative response to Normal People by Sally Rooney.  (I left punctuation errors for the feeling this text is supposed to have, she is sad and reflecting on her relationship) :) If I start this by saying what's wrong with me? Would it be cliche? I have always felt my life is a very bad low-budget movie, not that there's anything wrong with low-budget movies, mine is just really bad. Since I can remember I have been walking through this life with no finish line. It has been stages of course, does it always work like that? first I let people step on me publicly, later they step on me pretending they care, nobody cares, nobody but him, I think? not really sure though, I like to think he does care, but reading him is hard, I know every inch of him but I can't still figure him out, I love him, that I know, but does he? It see...

Why Winston took the worst decisions possible

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  Image: Alchetron   Juan Pablo Molina                  November 2, 2022   Imagine you’re living in the totalitarian hell hole that is 1984 and one random day, a higher up from the same party that controls your every move, invites you for no apparent reason to his apartment. What would you do in this situation? Well, if you’re Winston Smith you’ll dive right into the plan no questions asked, however if you are a normal person, you would definitely be skeptical and see the reality of the situation and how fishy it looks from an outsider’s perspective. From the start of the story, we can see how brainless and thick headed Winston actually was. I swear I found myself questioning every single one of Winston's moves in this book. To begin with, he had some sort of weird obsession with O'brien from the moment they met.  He thought they shared a connection on a psychological a...