The Lord of the Flies Only Came to Use the Phone

What do symbols illustrate in novels? In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, symbols are illustrated through people, objects, and colors. In this novel, a group of children are faced with the difficulty of living isolated from society after their plane crashes on a deserted island. With no formal civilization, parents, or rules, the kids have the freedom to do as they choose. Throughout the novel, the boys find and use objects on the island that symbolize something of different importance. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses different objects to symbolize the difference between civilization and savagery.

Imagine if a person was on Survivor.This person would never talk or listen to anyone, and would do their own thing. They would use their own knowledge and the person would not listen to the group. The competitor would just do what they pleased and not follow the established rules. The team would have lost the competition. This all happened because they did not communicate. The loss communication was a huge part of the breakdown in the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding. There are many reasons why a person may see this, but the three that have been chosen are as followed. The isolation and separation between the characters cause communication to be lost. A third person perspective does not reveal all the information present. The final

Margot has one of the most obvious motivations to kill her husband: money. In addition, she, on the other hand, has one great asset, her beauty, ?They had a sound basis of union. Margot was too beautiful

As Donald J. Trump said, “The Theatre must always be a safe and special place”, and for once he is right, the Theatre is a special place place, where people and objects transform in front of our eyes. One element that helps make a play great, is if it effectively uses its sacred space. The definition of sacred space according to our lecture is, “A physical space that feels almost magical, sometimes it may transform or appear before our eyes.” Sacred space is not required to incorporate the entire stage either, it can just be certain parts of the play. I remember in reading the book The Lord of the Flies, that one of the boys when the world would get too intense for him, he would hide in a hole in a tree and calm down; that was his sacred space. Sacred spaces are used effectively throughout all forms of art. One item that is used frequently in safe spaces in the act of rituals. Our lecture definition of Ritual is, “Something that repeats. Each repetition feels the same and different at the same time”, kind of like how Star Wars The Force Awakens was basically just A New Hope. Joking aside Rituals are very important in literature, like for example in Lord of the Flies again, the kids would participate in ritual when they would kill a kid or a pig and chant “Kill the Pig, cut its throat, bash her in, drink its blood.” Throughout the four plays we watch the themes of Rituals and Sacred Space flowing through the veins of these stories, that carry the meaning of the works.

A beast in man’s eyes can be many different things, this remains true in William Golding’s Lord of the flies. Golding’s novel takes place with a group of schoolboys on a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean. Without the guidance of grown-ups, the boys imaginations and fears run wild. So in Lord of the flies, what does the “beast” really represent? The representation of the so-called “beast” is ever changing throughout the novel.

Sometimes fear can be shown through external things, or sometimes, fear can lie internally. The Lord of the Flies was a twisted situation that shows what can happen to a group of unattended boys that are left to fend for themselves on a stranded island. They begin to develop a fear of the “beast”, which is what they think is the monster of the island. From an outsiders perspective, “the beast” could be perceived as the fear of an actual “monster-like” beast, the hypocrisy of war, or the evil that lies within us.

The beginning of this area in Gloria Anzaldúa’s composition is about the Coatlicue State. She depicts Coatlicue as the Aztec goddess of life and death. Coatlicue conflicts with herself in having the ability to take away life and give it. Anzaldúa reprocesses the goddess’s picture to regard her personal identity battle: being a woman who is also Latina. Her conflict makes me contemplate my inner struggle amongst myself. My entire life I was raised in an upper-class community with no true insight of how lower classes lived. I became a little more aware of how lower classes lived in high school but it was not until I went to college that I was able to experience being part of their class. It is funny how I was raised one way my whole life but as I began to experience a different manner of living, it was weird to go back to the habits I grew up with even though I know them more than my new ones. Like Anzaldúa, I feel odd sometimes when I go back to the city I grew up in. I know that my comparison is different, but Anzaldúa’s words about duality make me think of the oddness I experience when I am in my hometown with my birth class.

“They became motionless, gripped in each other’s arms, four unwinking eyes aimed and two mouths open…” Published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is a story about a plane of English schoolboys that is shot down in the near future over an unnamed island in the pacific ocean. The meaning of the story depends on the meaning of the beast. In Lord of the Flies, what does the “Beast” symbolize?

To begin with, after being told her husband’s secret, she deserted him for a “less dangerous man”. She said the following: “Fair friend," said she, "be happy. That which you have coveted so long a time, I will grant without delay. Never again will I deny your suit. My heart, and all I have to give, are yours, so take me now as love and dame.”

As Maria’s story unfolds, so does her conflict. Her conflict changes from man vs man to man vs self (external to internal). Soto says, “But an ill feeling stirred inside her. She felt awful about arguing with her father. She felt bad for her mother and two brothers, who would have to spend the next three hours in the car with him.

Estrella’s development is portrayed through Viramontes’ selection of detail, specifically choosing tools and Perfecto Flores. The first representation of Viramontes’ selection of detail is Estrella’s opinion of the tools. In the beginning of the excerpt, Estrella describes the tools as “confusing and foreign” symbolizing her struggle with literacy and understanding her culture. In the end, Estrella realizes the “power of [the tool’s] function” representing her knowledge of the alphabet and its importance in reading. The second representation of Viramontes’ selection of detail is Estrella’s opinion of Perfecto Flores. In the beginning, Estrella is confused about Perfecto, asking “so what is this about?” This symbolizes her confusion with the alphabet and her teachers’ view of dirtiness. In the end, Perfecto’s purpose becomes clear through his “job well done.” Perfecto’s clarity represents Estrella’s knowledge of the

An effect of her decision is that the narrator will have to stay with her grandmother in New Mexico. The daughter realizes her mom is being selfish and calls her out on it. This tension is illustrated when the author writes, “When nothing came to me, I scratched out the word opportunity until it was a big blob of blue ink and tossed the card on the floor.” This quote takes place after the narrator had a conversation with her mother where she learned of her mother’s plans. During the conversation, her mother said it would be a great opportunity for the girl. In this quote, it shows the girls opinion about the “great opportunity.” Another part that illustrates this tension is the quote, “She paused for a moment then continued, ‘would you please talk to me.’(Cervantes)” In this quote it shows how the girl is angry at her mom and won’t talk about the whole situation. Many times when there is tension between parents and children, the children are unwilling to talk about the situation. Therefore, we can see that there is a lot of tension between the girl and her

Finally, she is able to detect the lies of her father. Lies he tries concealing. As he once indirectly pushed her away, Mariam needed him to know how much damage he causes. She would not spare him of the injustice he has commit. It would be the first time she speaks against a man. “ ‘I’ll visit you’ he muttered.[. . .] ‘No. No,’ she said. ‘Don’t come. I won’t see you. Don't you come. I don't want to hear from you. Ever. Ever.’ ”(50). Mariam is an intelligent, outgoing girl, daring at times. She went as far as walking to the busy streets of Kabul to search for her father. With this, she wanted to leave him with a wounded heart. Like she felt when he refused to open the doors of his home. After the miserable ceremony, these traits withered away.

The narrator states that “it was [Maria] who did away with my generation’s virginity” (65). Garcia Marquez uses a hyperbole to portray how crucial Maria Cervantes’s contradictory role is in the men’s lives. She embraces her sexuality and is very open. In addition she also “taught [the men] much more than [they] should have learned, but she taught us above all that there’s no place in life sadder than an empty bed” (65). She reinforces the idea that sexuality should not be repressed because that would only bring on loneliness and despair. She recognizes the “disorder of love” that the townspeople live with because of repressed sexuality. The narrator describes Santiago Nasar’s passionate relationship with Maria Cervantes. He describes their relationship like “a falcon who chases a warlike crane” and that the falcon can only “hope for a life of pain” (65). The author uses a metaphor to compare Maria to a warlike crane in order to show her power and grace. The crane is a bird that stands tall and may look elegant and enticing but because Maria is “a warlike crane” she is able to stand up and fight for herself while still maintaining her grace. Another aspect of her independence would be that she stands alone in her battle against society. Garcia Marquez gives her these headstrong qualities to show how she follows her own path and goes against the town’s beliefs without showing any signs of stopping and to show that

In Lord of the Flies and “I Only Came to Use the Phone”, the setting and actions of the characters work together. Both are used to show the multiple cases of irony in the stories. The irony in both stories reveals the true and basic nature in all humans.