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    someone who guides‚ leads or is in command of others. In many adventure and mystery books there is a leader. There are many different types of leaders‚ but either way‚ they have special qualities that make them important to the novel. In Lord of the Flies‚ by William Golding‚ a group of young school boys get stranded on an island. It is required of them to choose a leader that will be head of the boys and keep things in line so that they can all survive long enough to be rescued. The boys choose Ralph

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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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    Creating Other Worlds in Fly Away Peter       In the novel Fly Away Peter‚ David Malouf explores the individual’s ability to transcend the immediate‚ and create ‘other worlds’ of his or her own: "Meanwhile the Mind‚ from pleasure less‚ 
Withdraws into happiness: ...it creates‚... 
Far other worlds..." Malouf uses the continuity of life to highlight the importance of the individual’s mind set against the meaning of human existence. Malouf’s three main characters‚ Jim Saddler‚ Ashley Crowther

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    of civilization against the destructive force of fear. If people become isolated from civilization‚ then the beast inside of us can break the bonds from society and unleash the evil within using the power of fear. In the book‚ “The Lord of the Flies”‚ by William Golding‚ a group of boys becomes stuck on an island and it portrays the breakdown of society and structure and the transformation of them into savages. On the island‚ the boys first follow a conch which was the order and the link to society

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    Lord of the Flies Final Essay For an author to clasp on its reader‚ he or she must use figurative language to captivate the essence and moral of the story. The most popular and the strongest rhetorical strategy is symbolism‚ as it gives further significance to an innate object. In the novel‚ Lord of the Flies by William Golding‚ the author uses multiple objects of symbolism to interpret its importance in the real world; one main symbol that is very apparent is the conch. Its symbol of civilization

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    Lord of the Flies Symbolism Lord of the Flies shows symbolism in many ways. The definition of symbolism is The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. In other words‚ explaining a larger‚ more general topic by linking it with some type of symbol for a specific event in a book or poem. The amazing use of symbolism in the book is one of the big factors to the deepness of Lord of the Flies. This book is sprinkled with examples of symbolism‚ but the ones that stand out the most are: The breaking

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    The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster are an excellent specimen for research in genetics. Many reasons are that they have a rapid reproduction rate‚ easy to care compared other animals and less expensive. Researchers have determined the nucleotide sequence of nearly the entire 120 megabase euchromatic portion of the Drosophila genome (Cite). Drosophila has a simple genetic arrangement of only four chromosomes which contains three autosomes and one sex chromosome according to(--) and because of this

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    We are all born with evil and good intensions and we have cilvilisation and law to keep our good intension and keep our bad intensions out. In the book Lord of the Flies writen by Sir William Groulding there are many details that show this. For example when Jack one of the main characters says in the beggining of the novel “we will have rules and obey them. After all‚ we are not savages we are English and the English are good at everything.” Yet he is the one to break his own rules. When the narrotator

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    After reading the book Lord of the FliesI believe my understanding in humanity has increased‚ which means Golding did accomplish his goal of “get[ting] the people to understand their own humanity.” Throughout the book‚ the boys do different things that is not always seen in everyday life. Human beings naturally are not very nice‚ and there is no doubt we learn that when Ralph‚ Piggy‚ and Jack along with the other boys are on an island. Almost all of the boys on the island represent a different

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    Spencer Lyman March 27th‚ 2013 Lord of the Flies Essay There’s a New Chief in Town What does it take for a group of civilized boys to be turned into inhumane‚ bloodthirsty savages? In William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies‚ Jack is able to exploit the innermost evil in others through the means of psychological manipulation. With these tactics‚ he gains the support of his newfound tribe‚ and chaos breaks out on the island as a result. Jack manipulates the boys and turns them into a supportive

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