Outline For Lord Of The Flies Critical Essay
In the Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the young stranded boys attempt to establish some type of order. The boys are stranded on the island without any adults, and the boys try to find food, water, and shelter. They try to find leaders and they make up their own rules. At first, their attempt seems to be logical. However, things begin to fall apart. The children do not have enough experiences to think like adults. The absence of adults on the island results in an inefficient world run by children that lacks reality.
Although the boys attempt to create a government with rules, it fails because there is no enforcement. Two of the boys, Jack and Ralph run against each other to see who would be the major leader of all the boys. All of the …show more content…
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Bloom, Harold Ed. The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne's): Bloom's Modern Critical
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Golding, William, and Edmund L. Epstein. Lord of the Flies: A Novel. New York:
Perigee, 1954. Golding, William, and Edmund L. Epstein.
Olsen, Kirstin. Understanding "Lord of the Flies": A Student Casebook to Issues,
Sources, and Historical Documents. Westport Conn.: Greenwood, 2000. Print.
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Sept. 2010. Document URL
Singh, Minnie. "The Government of Boys: Golding's Lord of the Flies and Ballantyne's
Coral Island." Children's Literature Review, edited by Tom Burns, vol. 130, Gale,
2008. Literature Resource Center, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=LitRC&sw=w&u=aose_ca&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CH1420079820&it=r&asid=48818d307177cae82c755ed1c68a67d1. Accessed 12 Feb. 2017. Originally published in Children's Literature, vol. 25, 1997, pp.
Although the boys attempt to create a government with rules, it fails because there is no enforcement. Two of the boys, Jack and Ralph run against each other to see who would be the major leader of all the boys. All of the …show more content…
2017. Web. 12 Feb. 2017.
Bloom, Harold Ed. The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne's): Bloom's Modern Critical
Interpretations. New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2007. Print.
Golding, William, and Edmund L. Epstein. Lord of the Flies: A Novel. New York:
Perigee, 1954. Golding, William, and Edmund L. Epstein.
Olsen, Kirstin. Understanding "Lord of the Flies": A Student Casebook to Issues,
Sources, and Historical Documents. Westport Conn.: Greenwood, 2000. Print.
Rosenfield, Claire. "'Men of a Smaller Growth': A Psychological Analysis of William
Golding's 'Lord of the Flies,'." Literature and Psychology 11.4 (Autumn 1961):
93-101. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Roger Matuz and Cathy
Falk. Vol. 58. Detroit: Gale Research, 1990. Literature Resource Center. Web. 13
Sept. 2010. Document URL
Singh, Minnie. "The Government of Boys: Golding's Lord of the Flies and Ballantyne's
Coral Island." Children's Literature Review, edited by Tom Burns, vol. 130, Gale,
2008. Literature Resource Center, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=LitRC&sw=w&u=aose_ca&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CH1420079820&it=r&asid=48818d307177cae82c755ed1c68a67d1. Accessed 12 Feb. 2017. Originally published in Children's Literature, vol. 25, 1997, pp.