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Lord Of The Flies Important Quotes

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Significant Quotations (Border) “Later, Michelle tries talking to me. She explains why nobody could help me when it rained. “We don’t force the students to listen, Wren. We can’t stop the rain. Or the sun, or the wind. We can only help you prepare for it. If you’re unwilling to listen to take advice, that’s your choice. (Van Draanen, 67) The quote is important because it shows how life and the world work. It reminds me of how in the real world, no one is never truly prepared for what life throws at them. Bad things happen, and the best we can do is prepare for when that scenario happens. “All the extra space did was give us room to drift apart.” (Van Draanen, 132) This quote is important because when Wren’s family moved, they drifted apart …show more content…

In the book, it mentions how it feels devoid of life and empty, and how it was best for the campers not to run because they would die. Human cave drawings (stick figures/determination) Personal Note: Drawings in red to symbolize danger/anger This shows the setting because it’s mentioned several times during the book. Cave drawings were shown during hikes, and toward the end, when Wren finds closure, she draws with charcoal on a cave wall. “I’ve been balled up in the cave thinking about hieroglyphics. Or, I guess, pictographs. On one of our day hikes last we, the jailers took us to a secret place where Native Americans had drawn things on a cave wall. [...] The pictographs were faded, barely even there, but John pointed them out, one by one. There was a circle, big X’s, a bird, fire, a man with wavy arms, and rain clouds. [...] He also explained that some wall art dated back to 7000 BC and said that we were in the presence of “America’s earliest storytelling documents. He said that the pictographs were painted by mixing natural minerals with plant and animal oils to make colored paints, which were then put on the walls with fingers or brushes made out of animal hair or yucca leaves.” (Van Draanen) The silhouette of the Pacific Wren

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