Quest For Fire

When hope ebbs, fades and
ceases, so too do the final vestiges
of civilization. Hope's absence
invites suspicion, hatred, cruelty,
violence, chaos, and what results
invariably is intractable human
degradation, the loss of compassion
the diminishing of humanity's spark.

In so many words, a sad summation
of humanity's fallibility. This is
a high school English assignment.
Class: Read this classic novel, its
author had much to say, and he
said it exceedingly well. Find his
formula, parse it, and explicate.

Read the novel, and yourselves
judge the metaphor that it presents
of human descent into inhumanity.
Present an argument in defence of
your impressions, your perceptions,
your findings, your theory and
your indelible convictions thereof.

Should you have questions on
process, feel free to discuss with me.
....How convey that the premise of the
book curdled her very marrow? That
she admired, wept over Piggy. Had
her heart shattered into jagged
little pieces? Not for discussion.