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    Lord of the Flies Written Analysis What happens when you leave a group of schoolboys stranded on an island‚ with no laws‚ no parents and no instructions? Will they band together and use their skills to survive or will they turn against each other‚ tempted by the freedom of wilderness? This is an idea that authors have been playing with since R.M Ballantyne’s The Coral Island. In his novel‚ a group of European boys are stranded on an island and use their good‚ Christian ways to conquer the wild ways

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    Sammy Moses Ms. Claes ELA 9 08 December 2016 The USA Should Have Never Invaded Vietnam In the historic novel Lord of the Flies‚ written by William Goling‚ A plane has crashed on an unhabituated island in the Pacific as they are trying to flee from the war. Although at the beginning of the story the boys are obsessed with law and order; but near the end of the book‚ the boys get into a short-sided and life changing war; just like the United States in 1945. Although the boys‚ and the US

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    RESEARCH ESSAY “We all have the desire to win”. To what extent is this attitude reflected in the text? All the characters in “Away” share the desire to win. This is shown through their feelings and actions and it is evident that they wish to make the right choices in order to have a life worth living. However‚ each character has a different interpretation of “winning” and “living a good life” and each make different choices in attempt to achieve this. This can be shown through the comparison

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    tyrants that manipulate the power of fear so that their subjects are forced to succumb to their rule and authority; and finally the intellects with their sheer brain power and keen thinking to convey ideas of how society ought to be governed. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding‚ the characters of Ralph‚ Jack‚ and Piggy are attached to symbols to convey their authority‚ which can represent different types of leadership and power in modern civilization. Ralph is one who rules based on order. In the

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    Lord of the Flies & Fahrenheit 451: Essay             In class we have read the two novels Lord of the Flies by William Golding and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I think that the two novels were completely different but they both are non-fiction novels‚ which have themes‚ and characters that develop throughout the story. A theme that both stories have in common is‚ a character believing in something which turns into an even stronger belief. This theme is shown through characterization of the

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    “Whose boss here?” Throughout the novel‚ Lord of the Flies‚ there are two competing tribes headed by two competing chiefs‚ Ralph and Jack‚ with two polar-opposite leadership styles. Ralph’s being democratic‚ with Jack’s being autocratic. Ralph is the boys’ first chief. He is elected into leadership by means of an informal voting‚ where majority of the group votes for Ralph. Ralph prevails in this election because he was the one who called them all together for the first time using the conch

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    Painted Faces and Long Hair Civilization separates humans from animals and allow them to develop intelligence‚ however when civilization disintegrates‚ one’s identity degrades and consequently‚ one resorts to a primitive nature. In the novel‚ Lord of the Flies‚ degeneration of society results in the loss of identify because of the dispossession of names‚ deterioration of physical appearance and the deviation of personality. First of all‚ degradation of civilization propagates the loss of identity

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    Lord of the flies’ a novel by William Golding explores the fragility of civilisation and charts the deterioration order on the island. The novel is based on a group of abandoned school boys who are left on a deserted island. They have to establish a sense of democracy but the democratic approach deteriorates and chaos breaks out. The main theme is the struggle between savagery and civilisation. The boys lose the hope of getting rescued and everyday activities slip away into oblivion. In the beginning

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    “I agree with Ralph. We’ve got to have rules to obey. After all we’re not savages.” Lord of the Flies is a novel about some English school boys who end up on an island and struggle with how to organize their new life so it can have a bit of order. In the midst of all of this they rely on the customs of their old life to try and set things up. Throughout the novel leadership and control become a struggle to balance. In the end‚ some of the boys become savages because not matter how hard they try to

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    The Conch and Civilization The conch in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a symbol of civilization. Both the conch and civilization are fragile‚ vital‚ and extremely intricate. At first‚ the conch is respected‚ but throughout the course of the novel it slowly loses its value. Eventually‚ the conch is smashed to pieces along with civilization. In the beginning of Lord of the Flies‚ the conch is valued by all of the boys because civilization is still fresh in their minds. For instance‚ when

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