It also caused her questions about her baby being born. She was not sure if she should tell Rolf she was pregnant because of the incident on the train. Nora thinks about going to New England for her pregnancy probably because she thinks that she would get more care there, with her family, compared with Rolf. In addition, the rough climate to come doesn't help. It probably seemed that he didn't care much about the news that a baby was born on the train; she was worried about theirs. Another reason why she might have delayed telling Rolf the news could be that Rolf sent a young man who was seventeen on his own to a ten-day trip to the hospital. Surviving ten days on your own with a broken leg is assumable to be very hard. Event after event, something bad occurs, each playing a good role in how the story turned out to be.

The theme of the story is that life is only beautiful as you think it is. Nora likely realized this at the end of the story. All through the story, Nora looked at the dull sides of the situation, until the very end. Nora was apparently not used to being in the same crowd as Rolf. She was used to being in the midst of comfort and leading a different type of life. That was proven when she had a panic attack in her sleep just because there were others in the room sharing it with them. An important turning point in the story is when she decides to chop Pleny's finger off. She runs away scared at the thought of the thing at first, but then she realizes that she has to do it to save Pleny. She does what she has to do to make her life better by making tough decisions. Towards the end of the book, she looks at the bright side, and laughs, putting aside all her fears; hoping for the best. That is a huge change in her. She stops worrying about what could go wrong and more about what good could happen. All the flashbacks gave her something like another point of view. And in the end, when she laughs, a great realization was made. She is a plainswoman then, and she accepts it.

Many of the story's aspects can be told by the picture. It is like it shows in the picture. In the beginning, she was only looking at it from a small view (for there was a small picture in the beginning, and it had a larger picture at the end. The door is opening to a realization, a slight realization. Also the significance of men, represented by the rooster, is small. Nora's change is shown again when she chops of Pleny's finger, which he is very hesitant of in the beginning. But she decides not to rebel and do what must be done, to more than just Pleny's finger; accepting her destiny. Maybe she thought about other woman who might be a plainswoman. She realizes that everything will be alright if she just goes along with what happens.

One of many themes that I saw in the text was that looks can be deceiving (or different from reality). Jing-mei fools her piano teacher into thinking that she is playing things right. She probably started of by playing somewhat defiantly, and gradually took advantage of her piano teacher's deafness. In the process of deceiving the piano teacher, she also deceives her mother. Jing-mei's mom works hard to give Jing-mei an education. This relates to the quote because Jing-mei does literally get away with mistakes, but it might also mean that she started slacking in her academics. Laziness most of the time only starts getting bigger. It's hard to break a habit that you're used to.

Many themes can be found throughout this story. Another one that I found was you can be your own enemy. If she had stopped herself from trying to be lazy and tried to do the work, she could have been one of the leading pianist, and maybe even a prodigy. It was perfectly fine that she didn't want to be someone she didn't want to be, but the way she showed that was what happened wrong. Jing-mei's mom only did what any other mother would do, by trying to give the best for her. Apparently Jing-mei was under a lot of stress especially for one without much age. Her irresponsibility is shown up when she does the talent show and completely blows it. It is shown that her parents had done a bit of bragging about her daughter's music skills, which only adds to their humiliation. Even after that, her mom does not give up hope, she keeps trying.

Jing-mei does make mistakes, a lot of mistakes.

When her mother offers her the piano after the many years, she plainly refuses it, probably because it represented a tough time in her life. Or maybe she didn't want to give her mother the satisfaction. But after her mother dies, she does play it and get it in tune. Jing-mei was surprised to find that her mother still didn't lose hope in her and maybe even forgave her. She seems to appreciate her mother much more than she used to in her childhood later on. Her mother's dresses and items were kept in secure containers. When she plays the songs on the piano, she realizes they're same part of one. This is a symbolism that can refer to two things: one to her and her childhood self, and one between her mother and her. Even after she made all those mistakes in her life according to the quote, her mother forgave her, and she never gave up on Jing-mei.

The conch and the sow's head are the symbols that draw the most attention; they reflect the most power. Difference of these symbols can be seen from the beginning of their appearance in the story. The conch is found in the lagoon. It is an inspiring piece of art that exists there naturally. On the other hand, the head is made from brutality and violence; there is nothing natural about it. Just the event of the sow being killed is done in a demented fashion and it shows another symbol. Sows being the female are the one capable of reproducing. When the hunt works its way for the kill, instead of going for the baby pigs, they go for the sow. It shows an end coming to life, and maybe hopes.

Ralph and Jack take power somewhat similarly to the two symbols. Ralph takes up the conch voluntarily and there is no fight with Piggy to obtain it. So, it doesn't surprise to see that Ralph got position of the chief without trying; the votes are purely voluntary of the kids. Jack from the very beginning of the novel tries to force his will into others. The deaths of the sow, symbolizing forced sex portray Jack expressing his will into something else. He eventually uses this technique to get almost all of the people on the island to join his side. From the point of the evil side, they aren't evil. Jack thinks that he is doing something good for the group, but in reality, he is only speeding up chaos all over the island.

One of the powerful symbols used by Jack to gain power is meat. The temptation of meat was too much for even Ralph and Piggy. The meat of the pig leads to the worst events on the island, such as: Simon's death, the group splitting up, and Jack and his followers turning into savages. The out of control dance, which killed Simon, certainly had connections with meat. Meat symbolizes as the fruit in the Garden of Eden while the snake is somewhat played by Jack. Jack is the main hunter without whom there wouldn't be such a need for meat. Meat alone is not something that was a problem, but the knowledge of more meat was. Temptation to have more meat is still with them. Golding shows here that even after so long, we still might be the same.

While the conch and the sow's head are very important symbols, there still remain others. Piggy's glasses and Jack's knife are the most outstanding of minor symbols. Piggy's glasses mean clarity and wisdom. It is also used to make fire, one of the principles, but dangerous technologies of human. Jack's knife shows violence and danger. While at the same time, a knife can be used for useful actions. Over the course of the story, Piggy's glasses are broken, and then taken by Jack. The glasses are then blind, and it defines Jack's actions. In the end, Piggy's glasses, Jack's knife and the sow's head are on the evil side. The conch that stands for order cannot belong in the evil side, thus destroyed. Golding is trying to tell us that evil is stronger than good and even the most good of things have evil in them. The whole novel is about the struggle of good and evil which take the roles of symbols and Ralph and Jack.

Symbols in the novel “Lord of the Flies” take an important role in the plot. The conch being good and the sow's head being evil conflict each other. Something had to give, so the conch is broken into countless pieces. Golding tries to tell us that evil is stronger than good and even the most good people have a dark, evil side to them when not necessarily vice-versa. The conch's power draws on admiration and beauty while the head does the opposite. The head rules the people with terror and fear. As those symbols dictate the balance of good and evil, Jack brings in his trump card, meat. It really doesn't take much for people to switch sides into evil and it worked like a charm for Jack. The technologies brought in from their former world are turned to the evil side, giving evil another triumph. All in all, the person who can control such a symbol wields the power to change things around.