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novel full of complex characters such as Piggy, Ralph, Simon, and Jack. Each boy held a specific role in the novel and on the island; each boy also lost humanity day-by-day that they were on the island, some even reaching the point of murderous savagery. Piggy was sensitive, level-headed, and wise throughout the novel until his death, although no one but Ralph took him seriously since he was delicate compared to the other boys on the island. Piggy was the character who had the idea to use the conch

story about a group of English boys who are stranded on an inhabited island. They attempt to create their own society in order to sort things out while waiting for rescue. However, as time pass by, their civilized society starts to fall. Because of chaos, structure and law and order begin to slip way, therefore causing civilization to collapse. At the beginning of the novel, when the boys first arrived on the island, they were very civilized lads. The first time the boys had to build the signal fire

He pulls Angel’s head up by the hair with his other hand and aims a fist for her nose. Without thinking Willies swings the cane, intercepting Lacey’s swing.” Also the time the Jo Boys who is a gang were breaking into OMLC, Willie stayed at the school all night to see if they would break in and as they did the Jo Boys caught OMLC on fire.

Socrates’ sequence of questions enables Meno’s slave boy to understand the geometry lesson. Socrates did not instruct the boy what to make of the geometry lesson but simply guided him to the right answer by challenging him and allowing him to think for himself. It can be said that Socrates taught the boy how to effectively use the knowledge he already had. None of the answers to Socrates’ questions was new information to the boy. The slave boy can identify with this lesson and apply it to situations

While in a house, the man and the boy find a mirror which the man almost shoots until the boy reminds him that it is only their reflection. The mirror in the passage represents the conflict of the apocalypse and shows how the conflict affects the characters. It shows that there isn’t much trust between people as there was before the apocalypse. For instance, in The Road it says “They came upon themselves in a mirror and he almost raised the pistol. It’s us, Papa, the boy whispered. It’s us” (McCarthy

of him. I believe this because the first time they climbed up the tree, the branch was kind of shaky & Gene lost his balance & was about to fall into the bank until Phineas reached out & grabbed him. The second time, it was Finny who’d lost his balance because Gene was purposely agitating the branch so that he could fall. When he fell, Gene didn’t reach out for him. If Gene & Finny were both 16-yr-old

nature, and humanity’s thirst for power. Throughout the novel Golding shows that human nature is not as pure and innocent as thought, everyone can succumb to the savage inside. Without following rules and having the constructs of civilization the boys quickly fall into humanity’s instinctual savage ways, and becoming obsessed with the feeling of power. As the rules of civilization unravelled the presentation of savagery became prevalently stronger in the novel. Golding uses the innocence of Simon and Ralph

tells a story about Madeline (Maddie) Whittier who wants to just live a normal life when a boy moves in next door. However she can’t because she has SCID which means she is basically allergic to everything. She wants to leave but she can´t. So as she falls in love with Olly the boy next door, she does things that are not imaginable. She runs off to Hawaii with Olly. Then she comes back home only to find out she never had SCID. There are several important themes that the readers can find in this story

“Things Fall Apart”, a novel by Chinua Achebe, which is set in 1900’s Africa, is about a warrior named Okonkwo who cherishes his village very much but, due to unfortunate events, gets kicked out. Okonkwo soon returns to find his village different and religious, this leads to his suicide later on in the book. “Krik? Krak!”, a novel by Edwidge Danticat set in the 1900’s in Haiti, is a compilation of stories in one describing the life of Haitians. In both books, Okonkwo from “Things Fall Apart” and

surviving adults the boys are left to fend for themselves and survive on their own. One of the boys, Ralph, is picked as their chief and he starts to organise the group so that they can have food and shelter. Another boy, Jack, is leader of the group of choir boys that were on the plane. He nominates himself and the choir boys to be hunters. Over the course of the novel, the hunters become savages especially under the influence of jack. Whilst Ralph tries to keep the rest of the boys civilized, the savagery