It's literally his job.
It's to reinforce the idea of proofreading your work for errors and verifying there are no mistakes. It's like these whiny entitled dickheads see accountability and quality standards as a terrible accostments to their fragile ego.
I didn't need an entire article of a person crying just to say he's pedantic and thinks people should have enough pride in their work to make sure they present it in the best way possible.
Who the hell is going to take a piece seriously if it's littered with plainly obvious mistakes?
Clearly, making an argument that the pig symbolizes "lost" civilization to a Jewish teacher was a huge mistake.
/s
Also, it's been 35 years since I read LotF, but I'm pretty sure the pig carries meanings of primitivism, not civilization but hunter-gatherers, a time when man was completely dependent on a world of plants and animals he could not control or even influence much, the degeneration of bits of Bible study into animism, totem and taboo, and ritual sacrifice.
That's because you read the whole thing rather than skim reading for a facile hot take to make a good pull-quote. The kids turned feral. They also killed a pig. Obviously the pig was the porcine incarnation of civilization and when they killed it they lost their civilized ways.
Nevermind the facts and flavour of the rest of the text point in a different direction, some pseudo-deep metaphor between two contextless incidents is enough to form a thesis you can be proud of if you're at the level of a professional gossip monger. Job done, paper submitted.
It's par for the course, isn't it? There's no way to disprove an interpretation because it's all based on feelings, not even a compelling argument is needed. Spelling on the other hand is fixed, you get it wrong you get marked down.
These people want to be rewarded for things that hold no objective value because their work never holds objective value.
It's literally his job.
It's to reinforce the idea of proofreading your work for errors and verifying there are no mistakes. It's like these whiny entitled dickheads see accountability and quality standards as a terrible accostments to their fragile ego.
I didn't need an entire article of a person crying just to say he's pedantic and thinks people should have enough pride in their work to make sure they present it in the best way possible.
Who the hell is going to take a piece seriously if it's littered with plainly obvious mistakes?
What, you mean "the pig is actually civilizashun" isn't a compelling enough argument to make you carefully re-evaluate entire the book?
Clearly, making an argument that the pig symbolizes "lost" civilization to a Jewish teacher was a huge mistake.
/s
Also, it's been 35 years since I read LotF, but I'm pretty sure the pig carries meanings of primitivism, not civilization but hunter-gatherers, a time when man was completely dependent on a world of plants and animals he could not control or even influence much, the degeneration of bits of Bible study into animism, totem and taboo, and ritual sacrifice.
That's because you read the whole thing rather than skim reading for a facile hot take to make a good pull-quote. The kids turned feral. They also killed a pig. Obviously the pig was the porcine incarnation of civilization and when they killed it they lost their civilized ways.
Nevermind the facts and flavour of the rest of the text point in a different direction, some pseudo-deep metaphor between two contextless incidents is enough to form a thesis you can be proud of if you're at the level of a professional gossip monger. Job done, paper submitted.
It's par for the course, isn't it? There's no way to disprove an interpretation because it's all based on feelings, not even a compelling argument is needed. Spelling on the other hand is fixed, you get it wrong you get marked down.
These people want to be rewarded for things that hold no objective value because their work never holds objective value.