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    William Golding’s first novel‚ Lord of the Flies‚ published in 1954‚ has received immense acclaim and even won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. In the novel‚ Golding explores the human psyche in young boys at the age of 6-12 years old. He outlines the transition from innocence to darkness‚ and civilness to savagery in a highly descriptive‚ yet realistic way. Predominantly‚ through the boys failed attempt to function as they did in civilization. This is resulted from corruption in the boys

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    Disorganization Leads to Consequences In the first section of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies‚ Disorganized procedures and concepts do not succeed‚ but frequently result in undesirable consequences instead. Disorder can be seen in the character Ralph. He had assigned a job to Piggy‚ for him to take down the names of the children. Ralph‚ however‚ did not think much more about this‚ nor take into account that children are prone to run around carelessly. Consequently‚ Piggy was unable to take

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    Symbolism of Lord of the Flies What would you do if your plane crashed on a deserted tropical island surrounded by the isolation of the ocean and strangers whom you’ve never met? In William Goldings Lord of the Flies‚ a group of boys‚ the oldest of them being twelve‚ crash among an inhabited‚ untamed island where they’re forced to adapt‚ survive‚ and make life altering choices. During the course of the story the author uses symbolism to express hidden emotions within the characters themselves‚ and

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    How Does One Lose Innocence? As seen in William Golding’s‚ Lord of the Flies The novel Lord of the Flies contains a story line of young English boys trapped on an island without any adult supervision.  The boys soon lose their English manners and become uncivilized.  The change is noticeable in each of the boys as they adapt to the uncivilized life on the island‚ but in the two main characters‚ Jack and Ralph‚ the change is most noticeable.  In William Golding’s novel‚ Lord of the Flies‚ the characters

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    Celestin Baker Honors English 10 7 December 2015 The Conch‚ the Fire‚ and the Beast A symbol is a thing‚ person‚ or place that is presented as a representation of a larger mean. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies‚ as the story unravels‚ the objects which the boys encounter are decoded to provide a deeper meaning. Golding uses symbolism to expose that an item is more powerful than it first seems. A central symbol at the beginning of the novel is the conch shell. It is Piggy who has “seen one like

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    transition from civilized humans to cold blooded savages. William Golding ’s The Lord of the Flies uses imagery and symbolism to create an image in the reader ’s mind and to convey the idea of society through a child ’s eyes. Lord of the Flies uses many literary devices‚ one of the most important being symbolism‚ which effects the importance and meaning of some objects and characters. Symbolism is something that represents

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    Lord of the Flies by William Golding tells the story about a group of English boys who are stranded on an island after a plane that they were on was shot down. On this island the boys have the freedom of living without adults. They must find a way to set up a society that is livable in and that maintains order. However as time passes the characters see that those tasks are easier said than done. In Lord of the Flies‚ there are many different characters that show development and growth. Characters

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    author emphasizes the conch. When the rock hits piggy and the conch the author says …“the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist” hinting at the boys have lost all law‚ and civilization entirely. Through the story‚ William Golding depicts the boys becoming savages and what United them as a civilization on the island was the conch. The conch never changes its meaning‚ but the boys change and almost entirely forget

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    Brian Woelfel Pd 1 4/28/10 Lord of The Flies In Lord of The Flies‚ Golding writes about a group of boys who plane crashes and they are stranded on an island. Ralph and Jack are the leaders of the boys‚ because they are the oldest. Jack is characterized to be a mean bossy leader. Golding characterizes Ralph as the leader who is nice to the boys compared to Jack. The island changes the two leaders because after a couple days they start to realize that no one is on the island to regulate them

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    A Revolution Auguries of Innocence by William Blake was published in 1863‚ assumed written in 1803. William Blake‚ a British poet from the Romanticism movement‚ wrote Auguries of Innocence full of paradox and mixed feelings. Blake used to have trouble with authority‚ and he expresses this need of freedom through his poem. This poem‚ thanks to its imagery‚ let the reader make his own interpretation of life and political views of the author. William Blake used the image of animals to reflect

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