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    Lord Of The Flies Summary

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    Lord of the Flies‚ written by William Golding‚ is a novel about a group of adolescent boys who are deserted on an uninhabited island that lacks adult supervision after they are separated from their friends and families during a time of war in Britain. From the beginning‚ an older boy named Ralph‚ the main character‚ establishes a system of leadership within the small group of about twenty to thirty boys that range between the ages of five to twelve years old. Ralph‚ the oldest‚ is named the leader

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    Lord of the Flies Essay A range of two leadership styles are depicted in William Golding’s novel‚ Lord of the Flies‚ with Ralph representing a democratic leader‚ while Jack exemplifies a dictator. While on the island‚ the boys have a choice of following either Ralph‚ the more sensitive leader who cares about the others‚ or Jack‚ the more harsh leader who puts himself before the other boys and strives for power over the others. Ralph uses more of a democratic method. He allows others to contribute

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    more than what the object or idea actually is. The conch‚ just a mere pretty thing that attracted attention‚ has more meaning than that of just being a conch shell. The conch’s symbolism can be traced throughout William Golding’s entire novel‚ Lord of the Flies and is a major symbol of power and order within the story. At first the conch shell effectively governs the boys and keeps them civilized. However‚ as civilization on the island begins to diminish and as the boys descend deeper into the abyss

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    Lord of the Flies by William Golding starts off with a group of schoolboys that have crash landed on an uninhabited island. The protagonist‚ Ralph‚ is the first one who blows into the conch shell bringing all the boys to the beach. The antagonist of the story‚ Jack‚ proposes there should be a leader and Ralph is elected. Ralph decides there should be a signal fire to alert passing ships‚ but jacks wants to hunt for the wild pigs on the island so Ralph lets them hunt if the maintain the fire. Ralph

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    Lord of the Flies Essay

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    Vega 1 Marcelo Vega Mrs. Chu-Morrison English 2D1 26 August 2011 Lord of the Flies Essay Some people believe that it is instinct to act peacefully and caring‚ but others think just the opposite. Often‚ there is a mislead of human nature and people act upon instinct. William Golding believes that human nature is lead towards evil and destruction. The boys in The Lord of the Flies acted on the first one to make a decision‚ in which this case was Jack. Golding’s fundamental belief about human

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    Lord of the Flies Analysis

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    Chris Sani Alexopoulos English 2 7th period October 2‚ 2012 Study of savagery through the novel Lord of the Flies “Isolation is a dream killer” (Barbara Sher). In the novel Lord of the Flies written by William Golding‚ kids stranded on an island must figure out how to survive. By hunting pigs and building shelters the kids tried to subsist on the island. Through the process of hunting‚ the kids became cruel‚ evolving to the point of being barbaric. Thus‚ through the barbaric actions of the

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    novel of Lord of the Flies uses the regression of main characters to show savagery and primitive human nature. “This perhaps can be best seen in the development of Jack. During the first trip into the jungle‚ he is unable to kill the pig with his knife‚ “[Jack] raised his arm in the air. There came a pause‚ a hiatus… The pause was only long enough for them to understand what enormity the downward stroke would be” (23); by the end of the book he is hunting human quarry” (Overview of Lord of the Flies)

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    Evil In Lord Of The Flies

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    do not listen to what society tells them to do there will be punishments. “What Makes Us Moral” By Jeffrey Kluger explains how humans can be innately good at times and at other times humans can be innately evil within society. In the novel‚ Lord of The Flies‚ William Golding shows the reader that people without society or civilization become evil. Even though humans are innately evil‚ they have the potential of being good with society’s

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    condition of being primitive or uncivilized‚ and through out history‚ man and women have worked on conditioning ourselves in order to become more civilized. Civility is formal politeness and courtesy in behavior or speech. In the novel “The Lord of the Flies”‚ civility and savagery are portrayed onto the characters because the author wants their reader to see the progression of savagery in the characters as the story goes on‚ how they change overall in the story‚ and how the characters acted when

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    Leadership in Lord of the Flies There are always people who come out with better qualities to be a leader than others. The strongest people however‚ usually become the greater influences in which the others decide to follow. However‚ sometimes the strongest person is not the best choice. In William Golding’s novel‚ “Lord of the Flies” Ralph though not the stronger person‚ shows better leadership qualities than Jack. Ralph displays these useful qualities as a leader by working towards building

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