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    novel Lord of the Flies is about a group of rich school boys who are stranded on an island during a civil war. In this book, there are many important symbols that help explain the true meaning of the story. One of the symbols on the island is a conch that two of the boys find. It starts out as very powerful object on the island, but as the boys divide its power starts to wane. In the end, it is a pure white color and falls and dies out. This was the beginning of the boys' savagery. The conch represents

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    Throughout Lord of the Flies it is clear that the author, William Golding, incorporated lots of symbolism into the text. Three of the main components in the story that symbolized something else were the conch the “beast” and the island. Each of these components developed throughout the text and gave the reader an idea of the main theme in the story. The conch was first used by Piggy and Ralph to call for assemblies. The boys then used it as a way to keep order by only allowing the person holding

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    Lord of the Flies is a young adult fiction novel by William Golding. This novel follows a group of young boys trying to survive on their own on an island after their airplane was shot down. There are four major players in this group of boys- Ralph, who seems to be the moral compass of them all; Jack, the complete opposite of Ralph because he always seems to take to violence and need to be in charge; Simon, similar to Ralph in the sense that he acts morally but not out of responsibility but because

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    Golding wrote the novel, Lord Of The Flies. The novel is about kids, whose plane was shot leaving no adults alive, land on an island that is similar to the garden of Eden, in that it is a paradise. The boys get along with each other but as the book goes on, the boys start to fear a fictitious beast, which causes them to fight with each other over power. Through Golding’s novel, Lord Of The Flies, the novel reveals the flaws of man as well as modern society’s flaws. The conch in Golding’s novel is

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    Isolating man from society can change the most civilized individual into a savage being. Such is the case in William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, when a group of English boys crash land on a deserted island. The main character, Ralph, stumbles upon the choirboys on the island, and they appoint him as chief because he is holding a conch shell. Ralph calls for an assembly with the boys, and he creates rules and regulations in order to ensure their survival. The leader of the choir boys and main

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    The Great Rock “I got the conch!” (Piggy). The conch symbolizes power of speech. In the novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, there are a series of mishaps attempting to trace the defects of society back to those of human nature. In chapter eleven of the reading, there is a passage based upon cruelty. Inquisitiveness, arrogance, and abandonment, build up into cruelty. In chapter eleven, Inquisitiveness builds up to cruelty. Inquisitiveness is to be eager for knowledge. Its basically means

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    In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, he depicts the true nature of humans in evil, and that it is only by the taming of society that people are civilized. British boys on an island are of course civilized to begin with, but through a series of accidents and purposeful brutish acts, the orderly boys begin to change. But Ralph didn’t. He stayed strong through everything that happened, unlike Jack who just lost it. Ralph was the one who stayed in his civilized self throughout the story and still

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    Civilization and society are fragile just like a conch. If you misuse it and treat it incorrectly, it will shatter. In the novel Lord of The Flies by William Golding, he tells the story of a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island due to a WWII plane crash. Throughout the novel, Jack and Ralph struggle for power over the band of boys, which leads to the release of their inner beast and the downfall of their civilization. Without the structure of a civilized society, people will forget

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    In William Golding’s novel, “Lord of the Flies”, the use of symbolism enhances the idea that a lack of rigid rules allows the ability for savagery to surface. At first, the conch is the boys’ sense of civilization, so when the conch is destroyed, civilization is as well, creating a new society based on savagery. Likewise, the fire is the only source of rescue; the resource is manipulated by the tribe to create havoc and dismay. Additionally, Jack’s mask is used as camouflage for hunting, but progresses

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    Is there such a thing as a game bringing joy and rage? A test bringing confidence and frustration? What about a conch bringing order and destruction? In the book “Lord Of The Flies” by William Golding, there are a group of boys who get stranded on an island in the middle of nowhere. This is also happening during WWII. The boys assign each other roles. The leader is a boy named Ralph. A group of hunters is lead by a boy named Jack. The first couple of days on the Island are fine. They made a fire

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