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What are Goths? What do they think?

All the answers here!

Want to know what other Goths think?

Read our letters to our editor, Mr. G.

This month’s Special: our reader’s favorite book:

Lord of the Flies, by William Golding

Index:

- Introduction to our Magazine & What are Goths?...page 3

- Letters to the editor (Mr. G) ……………...page 4-5

Our month’s special: Lord of the Flies review:

- Summary of the book

- William Golding biography - Gothic Point of View of the book.

Our Magazine:

In our magazine, Goths, an urban tribe, gather to do some activities like: creating & sharing stories, talking out their problems and sharing common interests & thoughts, also they can send us their opinions to make our magazine better each edition.

What is a Goth?

Well, a Goth is a person that has a certain interest in dark stuff, like negative emotions, also they are considered, by some group of people, creative, because they like to draw & write. Goth also have very strong relationships between each other, that’s why Goths gather and create forums and WebPages, so they can talk and keep in touch, without caring about where are them or what are they doing. Another interest thing to know about them is that there are different kinds of Goths, they divide in: Masochists and non-masochists, but they have one thing in common: they all suffer in the inside. A masochist Goth is way more associated to the tribe than normal ones, this is because, their actions call more attention than the art-like expressions of the non masochists, which leads to wrong ideas of this tribe, but one common idea is correct, they really like dark clothing.

Dear Editor: Hello Mr. G, I would like to tell you that your magazine is freaking awesome, the only complain I have about it is that is always a month late on stores, so I have to order it by internet and is way more expensive than normal store stock. Anyway I want to congratulate the writers that spend their time gathering information and gathering it in this "awesome", as I said, magazine. So that’s all dear editor, I hope that next edition becomes better than the one that’s already published, late, but anyway all I mean is that I HOPE that you concern about all this publishing problems. WE DONTCARE...TODAY THE WORLD ENDS

Dear Editor: Hi Mr. G...I think this magazine isn’t good at all, this is because it doesn’t "reflect" us, Goth people, in the way we are, this magazine "reflects" us in a more "optimistic" than "darker" way, so everyone that read this would get a wrong idea of our "tribe" and, in fact, they would get this idea and also be mad at you for publishing this 2 months late. So I can say nothing more than a "good luck" for a next Goth edition, because you really need to learn about our tribe, way more, than what you do today, hope you get the idea, anyway thanks for the interest in us.

DAR>K SHADOW>G

Dear Editor: What`s up Mr. G! I thought you were never going to publish such an interesting

article on the best seller Lord of the Flies; this book inspired my whole life. I first read it when I was in school and I thought it was very cool, but I didn't understand much, so I read it again in high school and now I’m a grate novelist on dark themed and subconscious themed stories. I want to thank you very much for this and i hope many people will begin reading the book and get inspired by it, just like me. LORDOF@GM.COM

Dear Editor: I’ve been thinking about all your past editions (yeah I have them all, I know I’m crazy) and I got to the conclusion that they are very contemporaneous and fresh, always with new information about tendencies and specially books, I really like the book section, I have read all the recommendations and they’re all very interesting, especially the juvenile story books like “City of bones” by Cassandra Claire. I’m looking forward to the new volumes of your magazine and more book reviews, and I have a question: There are rumors on internet that you’re going to make a meeting with costumes and prizes so I wanted to know if it is true, and in that case, when and where is it going to be? Thank you. VAMPIRE-PRINCESS@GM.C

This Month’s Special: Lord of the Flies review: all what you wan t to know about lost British boys on random

islands.

Summary of the Book: This book is set on a supposed World War 3, where a group of British schoolboys get lost on an island after a plain crash. The boys started a new civilization with what they knew about life, creating a democratic regime in which Ralph is chosen leader with "the conch" as the symbol of civilization. This lasted a few weeks because the kids started having fear of an imaginary creature called "the beast", the personification of evil and fear. So Jack, the leader of the hunters became obsessed with being leader and using the fear of the little kids he starts a tiranic regime where he rules by force and fear. Soon Jack discovers the true power that fire had in his “dictatorship” so one night he, with some other hunters, steal Piggy’s specs from Ralph’s “democratic” group, this makes Piggy, the one who immortalizes Science and civilization, angry and wanting to apply “law” over Jack’s actions. So our little group of “democratic children” (Piggy, Ralph, Sam & Eric) approach Castle Rock, Jack’s dictatorship outpost, but when they do this they are spotted by the “savages” and then attacked by them, with this Jack attacks Ralph. In this fight we learn the Jack and Ralph are “perfect opposites”, which means that they have the same “power”, so they can’t win if they fight each other. When this fight is coming to an end, the “watcher” (Roger) activates a defensive system, which was an “Epic Rock” (as described in the book), when this rock gets to Castle Rock entrance; it hits directly Piggy, who was holding the Conch, as this happens both cease to exist, also Jack’s group captures Same & Eric (the twins), which leaves Ralph alone. This leads to the collapse of Ralph’s democratic regime and the final “chasing” for the killing of Ralph, which was the worst enemy of Jack, as this chasing comes to an end, the whole island was on fire, which is a “extremely big” signal for boats around, so this way a boat approaches the island and the captain of this boat discovers Ralph, which means: They are safe, at least, the ones who remain. So that is why the captain ends with the phrase: “I should have thought that a pack of British boys... would have been able to put up a better show than that” Which means that if they were so civilized, why did their “children’s” universe collapse so easily?

Biography of William Golding:

William Gerald Golding was born in Saint Columb Minor in 1911 and died in Perranarworthal, in 1993. Narrator and British essayist was Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. Golding is the ultimate allegorical novel that attempts to show the difficulties-sometimes impossible-that is the modern man to fulfill the basic rules of natural law. Received during his childhood and youth a solid humanist and literary themes influenced him later for his novels. In 1935, when he was a professor at the Bishop Wandsworths School in Salisbury, published a volume of poems proper. He studied at Oxford University, he enlisted in the Navy during World War II, participated in the Normandy landings and when the battle ended, he turned more seriously to literature.

He published his first novel in 1954, The Lord of the Flies, one of the most popular novels of contemporary English literature, which was a great success and was immediately considered as one of the most extraordinary

allegories of contemporary narrative. It tells the story of a group of children after a plane crash that killed all adults and how they lived on a deserted island.

The novel is describing the gradual conversion of the school, from an almost primitive Adamic of innocence, until more refined instrumentation Evil Children will create a company to their own style and end up in a tyrannical and perverse organization governed

by the most strong. Allegory patiently draws the conversion, which occurs from the Western civilized values to the most abject degradation tribal.

In general, the author's poetic style and was based on the revelation of the darker side of human beings, the analysis of Western civilization and cleared the mantle of hypocrisy or worse, the inevitable nature of Evil His fame has doubled with the film versions, including that of Peter Brook in 1963. Golding's allegory was amplified narrative to history can be read as a metaphysical reflection of human beings or as an assessment of contemporary fascism.

Gothic Point of View of the book: This book has a very dark connotation; this is because democracy, our actual regime, is represented in a somehow bright and “golden” way, as an ideal. And dictatorship, the opposite of democracy, is represented as obscure, as something evil. With that we could say that the characters that represent each regime, each point of view (science, religion, leadership) where completely different, and complemented each other. So when Jack, the dictator & hunter, wants Ralph’s, democrat & leader, position as chief, the problems starts, and we discover all the characteristics, being good or bad, bright or dark,, of each one. As this “war” of ideals starts, some characters die, which means, that some characteristics of civilization like science, cease to exist, which means that, little by little, the whole idea of a “civilized children world” starts to fade from Ralph’s mind, leaving a sensation of resignation, because we get the idea that this world, the civilized one, is going to collapse, divide, change and, at an end, face each other, as one of the “divisions” wins and, as a book’s symbol, the world is consumed by fire, which seems to be “evil”. That last point is somehow a paradox, because fire means the beginning of humanity, and the end of it.