The last time I did research was my senior year of high school for my English class. We wrote a paper that took up half of the school year and counted for a majority of our grade. This paper was supposed to help us for college and get us used to the MLA format. There were strict guidelines about plagiarizing and you had to cite every quote, or just any time you used an article. We had to pick an author to write about and I chose William Golding. I'm not much of a reader so I just chose an author from one of the books we read in class that I enjoyed which was Lord Of The Flies. One of the questions that arose was why is man inherently evil? Golding always said men are naturally evil, this was a recurring theme in all of his novels and actually was interesting to learn why he thought this way. As my first research paper it was difficult to remember to quote and make sure to paraphrase correctly. It felt like a waste of time and became frustrating because it took so much longer to write what was already a long paper. As far as interest I liked this book because it wasn't overly descriptive in my opinion, and kept my attention the full way through. Also on previous assignments about this book I did very well so I figured Golding's other writings would be similar. I was wrong, sometimes just because someone writes one good book doesn't mean you will like his other novels. But since I wasn't much of a reader I didn't have many options. My ideal research would've been on comedy, music or sports. I watch a ton of sports and have always been interested in them, as far as music I watch interviews of my favorite artists on Youtube, and music is in my everyday life. When I watch Netflix, Tv or a movie I tend to look for something funny so that also is one of my interests, and something I find myself researching.
I also did a project on Lord of the Flies during my sophomore year. I found that the kids only performed especially evil act when concealed by mask, which strips them of their empathetic humanity by hiding it. I cannot say about any of his other writings, since I have not read them. Lord of the Flies is extremely unique though, in its placing children in stressful situations to show that no one is too young to commit acts of villainy. As you said that you would have liked to research comedy, I think that this work is an extremely different way to do so. Piggy, in himself, is a comic relief. What do you think that the death of the most comedic character in the book means? How is that relevant for comedy?
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