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    To begin, the boys on the island in the Lord of the Flies, have no role model to help them mature. This makes them vulnerable and weak. In the classic novel, the boys crash land onto a stranded island, and tensions are high from the beginning. They are immensely afraid of the “Beast,” which turns out to be the savagery that is inside all of them. All of the boys wanted to be the leader of the group, especially the protagonist Ralph, and his new enemy Jack. They did not realize that working together

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    In the novel Lord of the Flies, author William Golding describes the dramatic change of a group of young boys as they try to survive on an uninhabited island in the middle of the ocean. In the beginning, a small basic society develops when a leader, Ralph, is elected and rules are established to keep the young and old in line. The longer the children are isolated, the more distant they become from the modern rules of everyday society. The three main characters start to change from their old, innocent

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    The Lord of the Flies – Icons of the two tribes The story the Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, tells the tale of a group of young males who were left stranded on an island after a plane they were on fell from the sky and crashed (just why it crashed is never made clear). The story is assumed to be set during the second World War, as the book was published nine years after the war ended, and the ending has a British naval officer find the children. A central theme of the story

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    The Fall of Humanity Children, innocent and pure human beings. At least they are in the real world, but in the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding that is not the case. Lord of the Flies starts off pure and innocently but soon everything begins to twist and turn into something dark and sinister. The novel is about young boys that survived a plane crash while being evacuated somewhere far away from the war currently going on. William Golding adds many symbols that can reflect the fall of

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    The Lord of the Flies is a novel published by William Golding in 1954. The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is an allegorical novel representing what the world was like during the Cold War. Golding portrays the characters and things in this novel with symbolic significances, meaning they have a much greater explanation than just a simple character or an object. Golding coveys these objects, or the characters in a much deeper sense. In other words, the author wrote this novel to send a

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    Lord of the Flies Analysis William Golding describes the atmosphere of an island as a ship passes by after a significant fire burns out. He states, “The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away” (Golding 91). Hope fades away as the opportunity of rescue goes away. In Lord of The Flies by William Golding, a plane crashes leaving a group of more than ten young boys isolated and stranded on an island. The adolescent boys, without any adult supervision, learn to survive. Conflict

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    Jacolby Poulsen p.3 LOTF compared to Stranger Things Lord of the Flies and Stranger Things have many things in common and many differences, but both have exciting stories to tell. Lord of the Flies main point is about surviving each other and getting along to survive. It's also mainly about surviving nature and living in the wilderness with very little and turning it into a lot to live on. On the other hand Stranger Things is about surviving creatures from the parallel universe and avoiding getting

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    After watching the movie ‘Lord of the Flies’ I was able to grasp a better understanding of decision making throughout a group as well as understand the importance of teamwork that was displayed throughout the film. At the beginning of the movie, a plane filled with young boys is shot down over the Pacific and they are left stranded on a deserted island. The pilot of the plane was killed in the accident so the boys are forced to take matters into their own hands in order to survive. To do this they

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    In “Lord of the Flies”, the author, William Golding, analyzes the concern of civilization and savagery. Through the course of the novel, Golding embeds compelling symbols that represent civilization, hope, and savagery. The first noticeable symbol is the conch shell that the boys discovered on the beach of the deserted island. When the shell had just been discovered, Ralph blows into it in order to emit a loud, hornlike sound that would summon the boys who were dispersed about the island. The conch

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    Have you ever been stranded on a island where no one can find you, because in Lord of the Flies British school boys do.In the novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding portrays three main themes, betrayal, survival, and power and control. He goes into depth with these themes by showing them through each characters actions and the circumstances that they encounter. In the book the boys experience a series of survival tests and they fail because of their power-hungry leaders. Each of the boys in this

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