The Island of Dr. Moreau tells the story of strange and horrifying events witnessed by Edward Prendick‚ an English gentleman who unfortunately gets left by an annoyed captain‚ after being rescued from the sinking ship‚ on the Pacific island of Dr. Moreau. Once on the island Prendick is warned to only stay on certain parts of the land. He forgoes the warnings and tries to escape into the jungle anyway when he hears painful screams. During his stay on the mysterious island Prendick discovers Moreau
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and the Divergent by Veronica Roth shows a great example of a dystopian society. A dystopian society‚ a society where everything is frightening and unpleasant. Katniss and Tris is living in a world where humanity doesn’t exist‚ corrupted governments taking control‚ life there isn’t easy. Symbolism‚ the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. In The Hunger Games‚ Katniss showed that the woods represent her survival and the world beyond District 12. In the
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How many leaders do you know have become corrupt and performed manipulative behavior to the people of their country‚ today and historic times? Well‚ you can be aware of zero‚ one‚ or even one thousand;either way‚ light should be shown to this behavior because it not only affects yourself and myself‚ it affects everyone. In the story‚ Animal Farm‚ by George Orwell‚ there is a farm where animals are being mistreated by their owner‚ Mr. Jones. Soon after‚ the animals form a rebellion and take over the
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According to Oxford Dictionary the definition of revolutionary is‚ “involving a great or complete change” (“Oxford”). Upton Sinclair fits this quote through his desire for change and improvement. Sinclair was born in Baltimore‚ Maryland and had a hard childhood despite the fact of descending from many southern aristocrats (“Upton Sinclair”). Sinclair was a salesman‚ but ended up drinking too much which led to him living in poverty (“Upton Sinclair”). While he was in poverty was when he discovered
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“The Golden Kite‚ The Silver Wind‚” by Ray Bradbury presents a surface story to its readers. Each town has a border which surrounds their town and is shaped in a certain way. The walls are used to see who is the most powerful and strongest. For example‚ a town called Kwan-Si has a wall shaped like a pig and another town has the shape of an orange. The Mandarin‚ an official in the Chinese Empire‚ says that the pig can devour the orange at any moment. This means that more people are going to show up
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“As Stalin once said ‘a single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic’.” In George Orwell’s Animal Farm‚ Napoleon is directly described because Stalin and Napoleon were both extremely paranoid and killed their own people to stay in power. Animal Farm is an allegorical story that symbolizes the Russian Revolution meaning that all the characters and battles represent the real people and events that lived and occurred during this time. Since Animal Farm is an allegory‚ there is extreme
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“Pig the Fibber” is part of a series of “Pig the Pug” written and illustrated by Australian author‚ Aaron Blabey published in 2015. In this humourous picture book‚ the main character‚ Pig the pug‚ behaves badly and tells fibs. His loyal ‘long’ suffering friend‚ Trevor‚ a sausage dog is blamed for Pig’s lies and misconduct. This story has a moral and is a good lesson for young readers‚ as in the end all the bad behaviour catches up with Pig. The illustration on the front cover draws the reader
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Power is defined as the ability to direct or influence the behaviors of people or the order of events. Power has shown‚ throughout history‚ the positive and negative effects caused by the person or party in control. In Lord of the Flies and Animal Farm‚ power is an essential component to the development of the plot in each of the books. Power is taken by one of two sides and changes the plotline. The question is: Does power negatively influences those who wield it‚ or does power reflect the characteristics
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When people gain too much power‚ corruption will slowly overtake them without being noticed until it’s too strong to be overlooked and changed. At first‚ all the animals thought they were equal‚ but over time a class system was made. Pigs quickly rose to the top and started taking goods like milk and apples‚ which was rapidly excused by the fact that they were the thinkers and planned out the farm. It’s unfair that the other animals didn’t get the milk or apples and is a sign of corruption. It’s
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Revolution against oppression seems like it could only be positive; it can’t end badly. Actually‚ it may be the opposite‚ at least that’s what George Orwell‚ author of Animal Farm‚ believes. Orwell believes that revolution against tyranny only ends up with another tyrant because of the way the pigs treat the other animals‚ how the pigs slowly break the 7 Commandments‚ and how the pigs end up exactly like the humans in the end. The way the pigs treated the other animals on the farm was similar to
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