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    Chief In Lord Of The Flies

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    In Lord of the Flies‚ a novel by William Golding‚ a plane filled with young boys‚ none older than 13‚ crashes onto a deserted island. They are trying to evacuate England and the nuclear war that is currently taking place in their homeland. The boys are isolated‚ alone and stranded on this island with no adults and no rules. It is up to them to figure out a way of life that will work until they are rescued‚ and this includes choosing a leader. When it comes time to choose a chief‚ both Jack and Ralph

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    The Hunters’ Masks in Lord of the Flies Though a mask may just be a shaped piece of plastic‚ a paper cut out or a painted face‚ they all have the same ability to create the feeling of freedom of responsibility. In William Golding’s‚ Lord of the Flies‚ the deserted boys go through many changes‚ both physically and mentally just by donning masks. When the boys first arrive on the island‚ they are unable to successfully find and kill food; they also try hard to keep things civilized. As the novel

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    Lord of the Flies Simon

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    Simon has the power of "seeing" and understanding what the other boys cannot. When the boys worry about the beastie‚ it is Simon who suggests that the beast might be within them‚ and it is he who has the encounter with the "lord of the flies‚" which is so powerful that it makes him faint. He is killed as the other boys celebrate after a hunt. Because his name is associated with Christianity (Simon Peter‚ Christ’s chief disciple)‚ we can understand his death as a sacrifice resulting from the pagan

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    Alienation‚ out group‚ rites of passage‚ hunting and gathering‚ oligarchy‚ coalition‚ power‚ authority‚ obedience‚ discovery‚ invention‚ culture shock‚ deviance‚ norms‚ values‚ machismo --- all of which are found in the paragraph below. Lord of the Flies not only serves as a great coming of age tale but also introduces many sociological concepts that can be exposed through the plot and characters within the movie/book. Like any coming of age tale there are rites of passage in which the boys experience

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    Manangan 1  Czarlene Manangan  Mitchell   English 10 H P5  08 March 2015  Lord of the Flies Analysis: Bullying   Fear is the kid in the sandbox carefully building his sandcastle out of survival and sanity.  Power is the boy stomping his way over to Fear‚ reaching down for a handful of sand to hurl into  his eyes. Control‚ power ’s identical twin‚ stomps on Fear ’s sandcastle until every block of hope  disintegrates. Fear cries and crashes down to the floor‚ as Power and Control cackle at his pain

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    order to have a functioning society‚ those of the community‚ must have responsibilities and achieve them. However‚ too often people lack certain traits or characteristics that withhold them from being successful and achieving tasks. In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding‚ the main characters will show how different personality traits and mindsets can set back or take away from achieving a duty. Ralph‚ one of the older boys who was born a leader‚ demonstrates that you must always stay sane or

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    William Golding reenact the negative role of the post war (WWII) as in Lord Of The Flies.  which consider as a successful  novel. Golding illustrates the destructive impact of the cold war in his novel. Also present the evil side of humankind’s  which appears in difficult situations. Boys are generally represented the people in the world‚ and the conflicts and the authorize of taking a power evoke the war. In The Lord Of The flies Golding uses many symbols to high lights

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    Fear In Lord Of The Flies

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    there aren’t any beasts to be afraid of on this island….Serve you right if something did get you‚ you useless lot of cry-babies!’” (Golding 82-83). In the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding‚ a group of boys crash and become stranded on an island. Using nothing but their wits and skills‚ they must learn to survive in order to see the day of their rescue. In the beginning‚ the boys start off as a whole group who act civilized and cultured‚ however as the plot progresses the boys turn into the

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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau believes that humans are innately noble savages. The two different ideas these philosophers have about morality and what makes a person moral leads us to ask; what causes humans to abandon moral behavior? In the book‚ Lord of the Flies‚ author William Golding uses many characters and motifs such as jack‚ Roger‚ and fear to show how morality can be abandoned. From the beginning of the book the character Jack wants power more than anything else‚ he becomes furious when

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    Lord of the Flies tells the story of a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island. Throughout the book the group of civilized boys try to govern themselves with tragic results. Golding says the beginning of his novel Lord of the Flies theme is an attempt to prove the flaws of society is due to the flaws of human nature‚ not the defects of any form of government. When looking at Vlad the impaler and his monarchy I think Golding’s idea is True‚ If given the right environment and freedom

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