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    Nazaneen Zadran Advanced English 2 November 12‚ 2012 Period: 4 Lord of the Flies The central concern of Lord of the Flies by William Golding is the conflict  between two competing impulses that exist within all human beings: good vs. evil.  Throughout the novel‚ Golding associates the instinct of civilization with good and the  instinct of savagery with evil. The conflict between the two instincts is the driving force  of the novel‚ explored through the end of the young English boy’s civilized‚ moral

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    Lord of the Flies William Golding Moises Morales English II Dialectal Journal August 13‚2013 Journal Entry One Chapters one-three August‚13‚2013 Quote | Response | “I don’t care what they call me‚ as long as they don’t call me what they used to call me in school...They used to call me Piggy!”(Page.11) | Piggy is one of the smaller characters in this story. He is called piggy by the boys because that’s what he reminds them of. Early on in this point the boys show a sence of hate towards

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    Leader of savages In the book Lord of the flies what can change a boy named Ralph from determined and disrespectful to loving and disbelieving? Can it be the pain of being stranded or maybe all the fighting between Ralph and Jack for leadership? Ralph is a bigun with “fair hair” (Golding 1). And Jack is the leader of the choir later becoming leader of the hunting group (Golding 20). At first when they crash land on the deserted island after being attacked (Golding 3). Ralph is determined to get

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    Lord of the Flies If you were in plane crash and landed on an inland with a bunch of kids do you think your natural rights could be violated? If you are wondering what natural rights are any rights that exists by the virtue of natural law. Locke strongly believed in the natural rights of man. His basic thesis maintained that in a state of nature‚ men have a “perfect freedom to order their actions‚ and dispose of their possessions and persons as they see fit‚ within the bounds of law and nature‚

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    of life‚ in a world so riddled with chaos that even the most innocent man could not escape it? Well William Golding (1911-1993) did and he sought to demonstrate his views through a book which he wrote and titled "Lord of the Flies" (1954). I believe that in the book "Lord of the Flies" William Golding seeks to demonstrate that there is a beast/alter ego inside each and every one of us where its only desire is to descend order into a chaotic environment. Also I believe that he may be seeking to

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    PROMPT: Do you believe humans are inherently good or evil. Support your claim with at least 2 passages from Lord of the Flies Holly McKinney Mr. Myers English 10 H 11/12/13 Lord of the Flies Essay According to John Locke in his work "Essay Concerning Human Understanding‚" Locke rejects ideas proposed by Réné Descartes that human beings know certain concepts inherently. Locke believed the human mind was what he called a "tabula rasa‚" which is Latin for "clean sheet of paper." He believed

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    Censorship of Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies‚ by William Golding‚ is a novel about a group of school boys‚ whose ages range from six to twelve years old. The boys’ plane crashes on a nameless‚ uninhabited island in the middle of the ocean. At first the boys struggle to get along‚ but after they choose a leader the boys begin get along. The leader‚ Ralph‚ is chosen because he found a conch shell which he blew into and all of the boys followed the sound of the conch and are reunited. Jack

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    Lord of The Flies week 3 Chapter 7 Vocab 1. Taunted- to tease someone- Provoke or challenge (someone) with insulting remarks 2. Loiter- to hang around aimlessly- Stand or wait around idly or without apparent purpose 3. Antagonism- hatred- Active hostility or opposition. 4. Impervious- untainted- Not allowing something to pass through; not penetrable. 5. Bravado- persona- A bold manner or a show of boldness intended to impress or intimidate. Questions 1. The chant symbolizes

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    William Golding‚ in his novel lord of the flies‚ implies that without the constraints of social order‚ people would descend into anarchy and chaos. Three examples in the text that demonstrate this idea are the conch‚ the character of jack‚ and the deaths of piggy and Simon. The conch is symbolic of the descent of social order between the boys. The conch is a shell that is capable of making a loud‚ attention grabbing noise‚ Piggy describes this noise by saying it “moo-ed like a cow”. It symbolizes

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    Lord of the flies is a very meaningful book. It has a lot of meaning to our real life that we live today. The themes of the book are very interesting and have a lot of meaning to them. Some of the really great themes are fear‚ civilization vs. savagery‚ loss of innocence and many more.     Fear is something that we don’t want to accept in our lives‚ but it is still there. It always will be even if you think it is not. Those boys also have a fear. They have a fear of the beast‚ the adults. The fear

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