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    A Look at the Bigger Picture Lord of the Flies‚ simply put‚ is an allegory representing humanity as a whole. This can be visualized by seeing the island as the world‚ tribes representing countries‚ the conch or rules are a government‚ and differences between tribes can be seen as war. Throughout this novel one may ponder if our world is as uncivilized as the island‚ and one would learn we do live in a world like such. When the boys world is interrupted with the real world‚ the allegory ends. So

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    Justin Kamperveen English Literature May 24th The Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring This is the story of Frodo Baggins‚ as he journeys to the fiery Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring of power in order to stop the dark lord‚ Sauron‚ from regaining his full power once more. In order to do this Frodo teams up with 3 of his hobbit friends‚ Sam‚ Pippin‚ and Merry‚ two humans Aragorn‚ and Boromir‚ a dwarf‚ Gimli‚ an elf‚ Legolas‚ and a wizard‚ Gandalf the Grey. They are known as the

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    ESSAY. Lord Of The Flies clearly shows that civilisation is only skin-deep. Discuss. One of the key themes of the novel Lord Of The Flies is that beneath a veil of rules and propriety‚ humans hide a savage nature and instinct. The novel tells the story of a group of young boys dropped on an uninhabited island‚ and their struggle to replicate the society that they grew up in. The society that we live in today is much like the society the boys grew up in. It is built upon rules and regulations

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    The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a novel about a group of English boys who got into a plane crash and are now left to survive on their own on an uninhabited tropical island. The novel shows us that there is a line between civilization and savagery. During the story the main character‚ Ralph‚ becomes the leader of the group and tries to maintain civilization and the group’s chances of survival. With Ralph elected as leader‚ the antagonist of the novel‚ Jack becomes enraged. Jack engages

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    by the boys of Lord of the Flies? Was it some metaphysical‚ spiritual force‚ or perhaps their genetic makeup? Could it have been the influence of their peers or families‚ or was it the media that inspired this dangerous pattern? Conceivably‚ their gender had something to do with this appalling trait. It all begs the question‚ would the same experiences have occurred had females been stranded on the island instead of males? Had females been in a similar situation as the boys in Lord of the Flies‚ they

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    In today’s society‚ human beings must learn to take care of something or someone‚and that is a responsibility that they must uphold. In both the Lord of the Flies‚ and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ the responsibility of the boys is to manage by themselves without any adults to take care of them. The events in William Golding’s book Lord of the Flies can be easily compared to those of Mark Twain’s book‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ because the main characters both have major responsibilities

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    The conflict of William Golding’s story Lord of the Flies is key for the reader’s understanding of human desire for power. Even though there are only young boys on the island there’s still a fight for superiority over the others an example is Jack and Ralph. In the beginning when Ralph blows the conch for the first time the boys on the island gather together in total chaos not knowing who’s in charge or holding the power. "Seems to me we ought to have a chief to decide things" after this is said

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    The Power of Evil Evil: A noun meaning profound immorality‚ wickedness‚ and depravity. Everyone has a little bit of evil in them‚ but it’s up to that person if they want to show it or not. In Lord of the Flies‚ by William Golding‚ a group of boys show the evil within themselves while being stranded on an island. Because of the situation that has been thrust upon them‚ they soon discover the true evil they are capable of. In the book‚ the boys show evil through their lust for power‚ the behavior

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    murders at the very hands of each other are committed within this novel. Within this story of The Lord of The Flies written by William Golding is a wide variety of characters‚ one of which sees the correct way for the rest of the group to organize themselves‚ and often think of useful ideas‚ yet rarely anyone listens to him and he is frequently bullied by his “peers”. The secondary character Piggy in The Lord of The Flies is the character I feel as if I’m most alike. “Which is better –to have rules and

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    The Lord of the Flies Essay The Lord of the Flies is a fiction novel written in 1954 by William Golding. It is about a group of school boys in World War 2 who are to be sent to safety. Everything changes once their plane crashes on a deserted island. The boys must learn how to survive together with no adults and their differing personalities. The scene I thought was important to the plot was the scene where jack and his tribe go out to hunt the pig they’ve been chasing for a while. Jack and the

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