Toys Of Peace Analysis

Explanation: All it takes for civilized Ralph to get some blood lust is a bit of hunting and mob-mentality. It’s pretty scary to see this fairly mature and all around decent kid get swept up in the allure of violence so fast. It shows that everyone has the potential to kill and be violent, and that it doesn’t always take as much as you’d think to bring it out.

From infancy onward, parents and teachers have drilled into the young generation that violence should be avoided at all costs. They have preached cooperation, tolerance, and “using one’s words” as tactics to combat difficult situations. Although those lessons are valid, Gerald Jones claims there is an alternative way. In his essay, “Violent Media is Good for Kids,” Jones argues that “creative violence- bonking cartoons, bloody videogames, toy guns-gives children a tool to master their rage” (Jones). In other words, media violence, used correctly, can serve as an alternative method for powering through adolescence. By reading and writing violent stories, children are able to express

The novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles is about learning and it reveals that people have to have the bad to see the good. This thematic statement connects to both the book and the world that we live in today. Many people want everything to be perfect and beautiful but the hard truth is that it will never completely be that way. Life isn’t going to be the way every stroke was placed on the perfect painting of life that everyone has in there head which was handcrafted from their wildest dreams. Their may be some slippery patches but good will follow close behind.

John Knowles’ novel A Separate Peace is about a few boys at a boarding school in New Hampshire. The story is centered around the friendship of two boys, Gene and Finny, at a boarding school in New Hampshire. Although in the beginning of their friendship Gene did not trust Finny, by the time he dies Gene feels as if a part of him has died, showing that he still felt closely bonded to him after all they had been through.

John Knowles’ “A Separate Peace” takes place at a boarding school during World War II. Best friends Gene and Finny have been inseparable during their time at the Devon School. This is until reality hits Gene, and he slowly starts to realize that he is inferior to his best friend. Through the unbalanced friendship between two teenagers in “A Separate Peace,” Knowles illustrates that a loss of identity may be present in a relationship if there is an unequal amount of power.

One of the biggest forms of adversity with which the boys struggled was undoubtedly learning to cope and overcome the fear the littluns had instilled upon themselves associated with ‘the beast’. Golding does this by changing the way Ralph handles the crisis and changing his basic survival instincts back to that of the society the boys have left behind and learn to be compassionate towards the obviously scared young boys. This is obvious because throughout the book Ralph has been harsh, we can see this most in the first few chapters where he himself is obviously scared at the prospect of surviving with no adult help or guidance, we can see this through the way Golding has made Ralph speak and react to the other characters, such as his harshness to another key figure in the book, Piggy. An example of this is the fact that Ralph continuously tells Piggy to ‘Shut up’. However, when he understands the littluns fear of ‘the beast’, his tone softens and he understands that they need to be protected and looked after to feel safe, this is obvious because he made sure

All throughout the story Ralph shows us heroic qualities like: blowing the conch and having all the boys run to him. It shows that the boys look up to him as their hero to get them off the island. Even at at the end when all the boys chased him down trying to kill them. He still lead them all right to the naval officer. Showing us that he is the true hero of the story. At least Ralph stayed moral that meant he could live with himself without the weight of a person's death on his

From taking the ideas learned in history class and copying what society does demonstrates that what they learn influences the violence in them. Even going to school and not having gone to school for awhile still teaches and influence their behavior. In Toys of Peace while the boys are playing with their toys they say an action that is quite violent which is, “Louis orders his troops to surround the Young Women’s Christian Association and seize the lot of them. ‘Once back at the Louvre and the girls are mine..” (Saki). Taking what they know about the most violent person they learned about, Louis the fourteenth, they play and say “the soldiers rush in and avenge his death with the utmost savagery. A hundred of girls are killed”, here Bertie emptied the remainder of the red ink over the devoted building”. They know this violence from their history class and also learning about the Bourbon period. Also in Lord of the Flies while the boys are playing with the big boulder they let it off and say “Like a bomb!” (Golding). And knowing what a bomb sounds like is violent and they learned this by the ongoing war happening back where they live and also killing piggy with the big boulder they had. Kids will do anything they want and not actually think about what they are doing. The boys in Toys of Peace and Lord of the Flies do not actually think about what they are doing. From killing piggy and killing the

Ralph cares about everyone, not just some people or himself. Ralph was scared to go first on the ledge when the boy’s were searching for the beast. Jack was a hunter and he was scared to go on the ledge and Ralph knew, so Ralph decided to take over “I’m chief. I’ll go. Don’t argue” (p.155). Ralph knew that Jack was just as scared as he was, but he soon didn’t care what he himself was feeling. He knew that he could’ve made Jack go first, but he wanted to take the pressure off of him. When Jack and Roger captured Samneric, right after attempting to kill Ralph, Ralph still went back for them even if he was “Terrified that they would run and give the alarm (p.230).” Ralph wanted to make sure they were okay. Ralph was scared to go back for them, but he didn’t care. He just wanted to make sure they were alright even if it meant it might get him killed. Ralph symbolizes true civilization because he’s the only one who stayed civil, and he’s the only one left who wanted to actually get rescued and still had hope for

Violence is not only physical in the play but also verbal in which insults and aggressive use of words are used to display a form of violence. A verbal display of violence is exhibited by Simmons who speaks of strong and abrasive language, more than often containing swear words to challenge and insult his targeted adversaries like Ross and Kenny. Constable Ross who was shown to be a reserved and naive recruit depicts physical violence in the play through his sudden outburst towards a helpless and defenseless Kenny in which ross knocks him to the floor, punches him and stars bashing his head against the floor as an result of his own insecurities being targeted and provoked by Kenny in which causes ross lashes out and “ release the beast

Bertie and Eric rejoice at the news that their uncle has brought gifts, immediately speculating the historic battle upon which the toys receive their basis (Saki 156). As Bertie and Eric bicker betwixt themselves about the subject of the toys, “Youthful anticipation had been anxiously divided between Albanian soldiery and a Somali camel-corps” (156). This insight into the minds of the children clearly exemplifies how prominent violence is in the minds of even prepubescent

As it is stated in the texted ‘Hicks painting establishes the link between natural innocence and peace’

When the other boys come running out of the woods, they see even more officers behind the first one. The officers do not talk to the children and the children show little emotion which does not give the reader an idea of what they are feeling. In the book, when Ralph sees the naval officer, the officer talks to Ralph and asks him if him and the others were playing a game of war. He also asks Ralph if there are any dead bodies as a joke. Ralph replies saying that two boys died and they were actually having a war. This is important because it is an example of irony since the naval officer thinks the whole situation is a joke or game but it is actually real and savage. Ralph and the others also spill tears of relief and sadness but the movie does not express that enough.

Children view violence in different ways when they watch it on television, whether it is cartoons or a type of drama and action programming. After children have watched these television shows, they may have interpreted the meaning into a negative behavior. It could influence them by becoming aggressive, afraid of the world that surrounds them, or it may lead to confusion. When it is said that children may become confused because their parents teach that violence is wrong. When they view someone in a “superhero” position participating in violence, they may see that as it is all right for the simple fact the good person does the action. According to the American Academy of Children and Adolescent Psychiatry, “the impact of TV violence may be immediately evident in the child's behavior or may surface years later (AACAP, 2011).”

real life. Such youngsters come to expect the violence in everyday life; they create it to be