Triangle Theme Project

By: Dacey and Luke

 Our Theme
Power can ruin
anyone and/or
everyone if it is
given to the wrong
person
 Lord of The Flies
“Far off along the beach, Jack was standing before a small
group of boys. He was looking brilliantly happy. — ‘We’ll hunt.
I’m going to be chief.’ They nodded, and the crisis passed
easily.” (#133)
“Simon was crying out something “‘I got the conch!’ He shouted ‘I tell you, I got
about a dead man on a hill. ‘Kill the the conch!’ Surprisingly, there was a silence
beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! now; the tribe were curious to hear what
Do him in!’ — The beast struggled amusing thing he might have to say. — The
rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin
forward, broke the ring, and fell over
to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand
the steep edge of the rock to the sand white fragments and ceased to exist.”
by the water.” (#152-153) (#180-181)
 Explanation
As shown before, the only two written (or known) deaths were
caused by a different member on the island to gain the power that
the main character had once obtained through a vote. The main
character had fairly been voted to be the leader right from the
beginning to keep everyone organized, but one of the members
grew a burning hatred for not being put in charge. He struck out
and made his own group, which almost everyone had eventually
went to. Both the deaths were characters that had stayed with the
main character and the deaths were caused by the actions from
members of the other group.
 War pigs They leave that role to the poor
Yeah
By: Black Sabbath Time will tell on their power minds
Making war just for fun
Generals gathered in their masses Treating people just like pawns in chess
Just like witches at black masses Wait 'till their judgment day comes
Evil minds that plot destruction Yeah!
Sorcerers of death's construction Now in darkness world stops turning
In the fields the bodies burning Ashes where the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning No more war pigs have the power
Death and hatred to mankind Hand of God has struck the hour
Poisoning their brainwashed minds Day of judgment, God is calling
Oh lord yeah! On their knees the war pig's crawling
Politicians hide themselves away Begging mercy for their sins
They only started the war Satan laughing spreads his wings
Why should they go out to fight? Oh lord yeah!
 Explanation
The song ‘War Pigs’ by Black Sabbath relates to our
theme in the way that the lyrics really tell a story. One of
the verses in the song goes “Evil minds that plot
destruction, sorcerers of death’s construction. In the
fields the bodies burning as the war machine keeps
turning. Politicians hide themselves away they only
started the war, why would they go out to fight? They
leave that role to the poor.” This means that the
politicians have gained all of the power and used it to
start a war. To have a war you need soldiers, for this
reason the people in power go out and draft the less
fortunate people to fight for them. Then the artist
proceeds to sing the line “Now in darkness world stops
turning, ashes where the bodies burning”. The world is in an
state of apocalypse because of the war that was started and
that is how power ruined the world in this song.
 Mary Elizabeth
Aitcheson Gore
This woman’s name is Mary Elizabeth Aitcheson Gore,
also known as “Tipper” gore. She is the estranged wife
of the 45th Vice President of the United States. She
was an American social issues advocate from 1993 to
2001. Black Sabbath’s music was deemed satanic by
her and Her group called parents music resource
center because of how many times Ozzy Osbourn
called them out on their wrong doings and related it to
the devil. one of the songs she tried To get banned was
war pigs. The final verse in war pigs has the words “No
more war pigs have the power, Hand of God has struck
the hour Day of judgement, God is calling On their
knees, the war pigs crawling Begging mercy for their
sins Satan laughing, spreads his wings Oh lord, yeah!
This verse states that the politicians no longer have
power and now that they realize what they have done
they ask for entrance to heaven. However Satan has
seen it all and doesn’t even let them finish.
Speak Power to Truth, but Fear not, I'll break it down,

watch out for Lie I met Truth in 8th grade,

By: Andrew Parker
Sometimes we are afraid to speak Truth to
Power.
Have you ever heard that phrase uttered
by some token card pushing sack of
potatoes?
I want to know :
Who are these Truth and Power
characters?
Why are we afraid to speak with them?
watched friends steal candy from a
store,
then they shouted, "Wynn go take
some more."
Egging on persistent - I couldn't
ignore.
I snuck the snack in to my pocket,
pretended I dropped it.
left enough change on the counter
to pay for my friends and more,
high-fived my friend Truth as I
walked out the door.

Entire Poem
Sometimes we are afraid to speak Truth to
Power.
Have you ever heard that phrase uttered
by some token card pushing sack of potatoes?
I want to know :
Who are these Truth and Power characters?
Why are we afraid to speak with them?
Fear not, I'll break it down,
I met Truth in 8th grade,
watched friends steal candy from a store,
then they shouted, "Wynn go take some more."
Egging on persistent - I couldn't ignore.
I snuck the snack in to my pocket,
pretended I dropped it.
I left enough change on the counter
to pay for my friends and more,
high hived my friend Truth as I walked out the door.
I met Power high up in a tower
of offices.
That's right, Power is a bureaucrat who stamps a time
clock.
Every single weekday,
as a weak single,
like you and me, maybe.
Power worked for my university
signed my paychecks,
and didn't like me at all.
Power threw a power trip, extorted, blackmailed me and
all,
I got was secret meetings behind closed doors,
Power threw me out
said Wynn we don't need you anymore.
I met Truth a 2nd time when I fell in love
and had Truth tell me, Wynn admit it,
this isn't the stranger you've been dreaming of.

Entire Poem
But I didn't follow Truth's advice,
Instead I listened to Lie,
and continued to suffer
until emotionally I wanted to die.
Lie, is another character you will tend to get
involved with.
Each day in a mirror Lie reviews your clothes,
whispers in your ear you should starve,
need to become beautiful,
to lose weight,
and change french fries for grapes.
Lie wears a funny suit and shows up at your
door,
will try to sell you **** on silver platters,
as if you needed anymore,
Power came again to me,
at a protest in the mall,
said freeze, put your hands in the air,
don't move, stay where you are.
Power wields handcuffs,
forged from metal, emotions, or money.
Power is tall and attractive.
Can be so friendly, sweet like honey.
Power is secretly a business partner of everyone in your
life.
Power will be there for those who afford to buy its might.
Lie is the friend who your parents say you should kick out
of your house,
but instead you awkwardly end up inviting to dinner.
Lie timed their visit strategically.
To dine at your table for free.
(Lie doesn't identify with gender pronouns by the way).
So speak Power to Truth, but watch out for Lie,
because Truth needs Power most,
and Lie will try to hide,
not caring for reasons why.
 Explanation
The poem tells a story about a boy who is choosing
between telling the truth and lying. He explains how the
power of truth makes him feel more confident and
independent, and when he chose to lie he felt like he
wasn’t doing any good. The section of the poem I chose
to talk more about was one of his stories in the poem. He
tells the story about his experience in eighth grade when
his friends were telling him to steal, but he wanted to be
honest with himself and the cash register by secretly
paying for the snacks his friends tried to steal.
 Importance of Our Theme
Our theme started off written differently than our final theme we have now.
When we first came up with our theme, we made sure that it was broad
enough so it wasn’t too specific to the book, but you could tell it was related
to what we had just read. Our final product of our theme is “power can ruin
anyone and/or everyone if it is given to the wrong person.” This helped
make our choices for examples to this theme wider (while still staying
relevant to the book.) The theme is important to all three of our examples
because power can be a terrible or great thing. The theme relates to the
song because the song tells the story about a war and how the politicians
had the power. They used it for worse towards the war, which was a perfect
example of our theme. Then came the poem. The poem was a little harder
to find but it relates to our theme really well. It also tells a story about a
boy’s choices through his life that gave him power and what he chose to do.
 Relevance To Present Day
Like we stated before, our theme we came up with was broad but
specific at the same time. Our theme relates to the present day because
it explains how power can ruin anyone. At any given point anyone in the
entire world could have power and decide to use it to do terrible things.
When discussing this, we both agreed that just because our theme talks
about how power can ruin anyone and or everyone, there’s another
layer to it. It also means that power can help anyone and/or everyone.
This goes for the modern day as well. Even if someone has power, it
doesn’t necessarily mean they plan on using it for bad. Power can ruin
anyone and/or everyone in the modern day anywhere in the world, and
there’s no reason there shouldn’t be. Even if someone does something
bad with the power they’re given, it doesn’t mean everyone else can’t
learn from that.
Sources
https://hellopoetry.com/words/power/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_A6y58afFY