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Elizabeth
Book Review
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
This old classic is not only on your school’s senior reading list, it’s also on the must read list for adventure, realistic fiction, and most of all, a look into the human psyche that will awe and inspire you. This response book to Coral Island puts a number of boys on an island and shows the reader how they cope with being alone. The boys try to be civilized, but that soon goes awry as conflict ensues.
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Editorial
Twilight and High School Relationships
I understand how Twilight has made its way around to be one of the biggest fads of our generation. It’s the typical girl meets boy, they fall in love, and complications in their lives and their relationship ensues. However, it does have a catch – the boy is a vampire. However, people don’t realize how potentially dangerous the relationship portrayed in this contemporary novel can be.
As teens, high school and the goings-on there are important. It doesn’t matter how removed you are from the population, you hear about who’s dating who and who isn’t anymore and how they’re taking it. Books like Twilight magnify these relations into fiction the teenagers – particularly girls – believe to be normal. So, when the boy leaves the girl in pursuit of something different, which is to be expected at our young age, the girl believes that she should be despairing to the point of no longer functioning in society. This is not healthy. What Bella did when Edward left is not normal. That automation she experienced during the second book in the series just shouldn’t happen. When you’re in high school, your relationships should not get that in depth. We are so young we shouldn’t put our well being solely on one person. There is so much more to live for, and so much in high school that you’ll forget or won’t matter when you’re out on your own and, well, more grown up.
Just think on it.
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