Crooks

When Barnes brought up critics, it made me realize that critics are just people that are insecure about themselves and just have to bring out other peoples flaws. When I look back about thinking about things that critics have said you rarely hear anything good about what they say. Critics just point out things that are just unnecessary such as when a critic found out about how “Piggy is short-sighted; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses.”(77) Barnes makes a good point that most people would not find this flaw in Lord of the Flies and the people that do find this flaw are literature scholars and even then if you know about it doesn’t really ruin the book. The mistake like in Lord of the Flies is an external mistake that didn’t really upset the plot for most. Golding’s error is due to his lack of knowledge of making fires from spectacles. Internal mistakes like Emma’s Eyes being brown, then being blue, are just the author having some “sloppy literary habits”(78) is what Braithwaite thinks about these stupid mistakes. Overall I feel that people make mistakes and critics are the people that just to point them out.