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    screamed. “Come on dude you’re fine”‚ one kid says. The kid who got hit in the head and marched off and said‚ “I’M MAKING MY OWN GAME‚ IF ANYONE WANTS TO COME JOIN‚ COME NOW”‚ Two kids get up and walk away with him. This is the case in The Lord Of The Flies by William Golding‚ a group of kids are stranded on an island‚ all by themselves. Ralph‚ being the leader sets up rules‚ but Jack doesn’t agree and starts another group. Jack starts terrorising Ralph’s group and even kills someone. With the island in

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    lives. Has anyone ever thought of the total number of child murders in the whole world? Out of how many children in the world have committed similar crimes in their young years‚ and then are lead to become full fledge murderers in the adult years? How many child murderers never get caught‚ or have someone taking the fall for them? We may never know‚ however in The Lord of the Flies the author William Golding

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    The book Lord of the Flies by William Golding is about a group of boys who were stranded on an island in the middle of WWII. Though this story may seem like a normal tale of adventure‚ disclosure‚ and discovering adulthood‚ Golding has given a hidden message about the foundation of evil. With characters such as Ralph‚ Piggy‚ and Jack‚ he believes that evil is not taught; it is human nature. The story begins with Ralph‚ a fair-haired boy who is destined to learn about life‚ death‚ and the meaning

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    because of murder and the mob mentality that develops in a crowd. William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies shows that people are generally bad because of a long to kill that lives inside everyone. This longing is not something that is seen in everyone until they are presented with the right circumstances‚ of pressure and stress. In the book you see very clearly right away that this trait brews inside Jack. His long to hunt is what dives him crazy he lusts to kill something so bad that he spends every

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    subdivisions of this subject. What I am focusing on is what is to blame for humans to react the way they do when they are in a survival situation. I am using is the novel‚ Lord of the Flies by William Golding. The story starts out like this: there are a group of boys that are on this island in the middle of nowhere. It gives off the vibe that they were in a plane crash. They are completely stranded by themselves. At first‚ they vote who is the leader of the group and who does the building‚ who tends

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    action-adventure story Lord of the Flies‚ by William Golding‚ is that fear controls humanity more than reason. In most catastrophic situations‚ people act based on the amount of fear that they have in that moment. However‚ in this scenario‚ the boys in the novel do not have the ability to ‘move on’ from their current crisis; as they have become isolated on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and with no way of telling how long it will be until they are rescued. Golding has explored the theme

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    resources. In the book‚ “ The Lord of the Flies”‚ by William Golding‚ he writes about characters who have crashed on an island and have no way to get off. The setting is a group of boys on an island full of jungles‚ mountains‚ and beaches. The main characters are Ralph and Piggy‚ together they found a conch and brought everyone together. Conflicts happen when Jack wants to be chief of the tribe. Jack thinks he should be chief‚ because he doesn’t like how Ralph does anything. Another conflict occurs

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    The Quote “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself” was said by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This quote means that fear is something that only exists in our minds. We would not be afraid if we didn’t scare ourselves. This relates to the boys in William Golding’s story‚ “Lord of flies”‚ in multiple ways. One way Roosevelts quote relates is because the boys are starting to wonder if the beastie is just something they are imagining. “I was asleep when the twisty things were fighting and when

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    is what gets him elected as chief‚ because the other boys see him as the person behind the conch of law and order. When the boys begin their descent into savagery and lose their civility‚

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    innocence. For some individuals‚ sometimes it is not growing as a person‚ sometimes they are put in a situation where they are forced into doing things where they lose their innocence. Other times it is a dramatic event that occurs. William Golding wrote the novel Lord of the Flies and explored this topic of losing one’s innocence. The boys in the novel are put in a situation where they find themselves losing their innocence. They slowly start to lose their innocence in various ways. The boys kill an animal

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