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    the bugs in your back yard‚ to when you turn 18 and join the army to be trained to kill. These kinds of things happen every day but rarely do you see them portrayed to the extent of what is really happening‚ in writing. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies‚ Golding uses characters like Jack Merridew and events like the pig kills to perpetuate the concept of fear and show the more brutal side of human nature. Although Jack takes charge of awkward situations‚ Jack uses fear to gain

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    Fire In Lord Of The Flies

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    People will go to extreme lengths to avoid the truth‚ William Golding shows this in his book Lord of the Flies‚ these boys invent this creature called the beastie to put their fear into instead of facing the truth‚ that they are the beasts. They also ignore how important the signal fire is if they are to be rescued from the island. They kill Simon when he has just figured out that the beast on the hill is a dead person. When they all go around to Jack’s side and turn into savages to avoid responsibility

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    The classic novel The Lord of the Flies by William Golding revolves around a group of young boys from England that are isolated on an island after their plane crashed. With the pilot dead and no adults around it is up to the older ones to take charge. This Nobel Prize winning novel features four distinct characters; Piggy‚ Ralph‚ Jack and Simon. It is up to these boys to make all the difference on the island. In order for the boys to survive on the island while waiting for the adults to rescue them

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    Lord of the Flies Violence

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    How does Golding use violence in the novel ‘Lord of the Flies’? In the novel ‘Lord of the Flies’‚ Golding uses the theme of violence surfacing throughout the text. One reason for this was‚ Golding believed that every individual has the potential for evil and that the flawed human nature is seen in ‘mankind’s essential sickness’. His belief in this arrived through his time spent in war‚ so his aim was to challenge Ballantyne’s novel ‘Coral Island’‚ and in which Golding’s book the truth would be

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    Power In Lord Of The Flies

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    Swoosh! Pop! Crackle! The sounds of fire lighting up and burning. All that power for a substantial leader to possess. The novel Lord of the Flies is a powerful one‚ written by William Golding. Some of the main characters are Ralph‚ Jack‚ Piggy‚ Simon and Samneric. The theme power‚ is shown in many ways in the novel. One of the many ways power is shown in this novel is how the boys use Piggy’s glasses to start a fire showing how powerful Piggy’s glasses really are. Some of the other ones are the power

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    The book‚"Lord of the Flies" parallels exactly to the horrible accounts of the Holocaust. It took place during the same time‚ and many ideas and events are very similar. The Holocaust was a huge inspiration on Golding’s book‚ and like the Holocaust‚ Golding creates a setting‚ that’s in a sense‚ secret. They also both took place during World War II. Just like in the beginning‚ when the boys first landed on the island‚ before the Holocaust even began‚ the boys were unified as one tribe. However

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    Lord of the Flies: Ralph

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    William Golding supplied his story with a lot of literary color‚ making it alive and vivid to the reader. The character that stood out the most was Ralph‚ who was the novels protagonist. The twelve year old English boy‚ who was elected leader of the boys in the beginning of the novel‚ is the primary representative of order‚ civilization‚ and productive leadership in the novel. Ralph attempts to organize the boys’ efforts to build a miniature civilization on the island until they can be rescued. Ralph

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    Ralph In Lord Of The Flies

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    In the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding‚ he shows symbolism within the objects and characters in the story. Each of the characters’ actions resemble how people in society would react to life changes and ruling ways. Golding understood how a society works in order to stick together or break into complete savagery. One of the main characters‚ Ralph‚ is the one of oldest and became the leader of all the boys when they are stuck on the island. He will now have to find a way to form a social

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    Lord of the Flies The movie is about a group of children who were on a trip and they were on their way back home. The plane they were traveling in crashed near a remote island. It seemed that all of the kids were alive and no casualties had happened. The Captain was seriously injured and was out of consciousness. The kids tried to take care of him and keep him hydrated. They also had a net hanging from a tree that covered most of his body to protect him from insects. They started to figure out

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    I crumple the note in my fist. Dried crimson holes replace her eyeballs‚ multiple slash marks cover her abdomen and chest and her limbs are scattered around her body. She lost her chance to be loved by her people. But did she also become the lord of the flies? The space surrounding the body becomes desolate as I saunter towards the dead decaying soldier. I inch closer and closer to the body unfazed by the hideous sight. Sadness‚ grief‚ shock are foreign emotions to me. Numbness turns to anger‚ and

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