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    followed… excited by the long chase and the dropped blood.”(page 135), and “Jack held up the head and jammed the soft throat with the pointed end which pierced through into the mouth (Golding, page 136 and 137). The first detail on page 134 indicates the pig they have their sights on is a mother of a few piglets. Quite

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    because they are all afraid of something that isn’t there. An example of this is when we thought medicine was witchcraft.The last example is the pig's head. This object represents a satanic figure. I say this because the pigs head was the reason a character called Simon was killed. The pig convinced Simon he was lord of the flies and caused him to turn primal. He then went to the others crawling on all fours witch got him killed. While there was a lot of evil shown in the book the author added characters

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    the born hate inside of everyone. The characters’ loss of innocence in Lord of the Flies is shown when Jack killed a pig for the first time, by the truth from the Lord of the Flies, and the gradual death of the island itself. Jack killing a pig is a scene in the novel where innocence is lost. After landing on the island, Jack went with the choir to find meat. He went up to pigs twice before he could bring himself to kill one. On page 74, the author writes, "The chant was audible but at that distance

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    In Lord of the Flies( Castle Rock Productions, 1990) shows what happened when a plane filled with a group of schoolboys crashes. The pilot was injured and later on found dead in the movie. Leaving just these schoolboys alone to survive. The movie shows these boys doing what they can to survive in an island by themselves. There are so many character, characteristics traits that are displayed in the movie. The main characters that were focused on being Ralph, Piggy, Simon, and Jack. At first these

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    Ralph’s negative relationship develops there differences in opinion. Jack doesn’t take it serious that his pig hunters are not contributing to building the forts. “We want meat.” “Well, we haven’t got any yet. And we need shelters.” (Golding 51). Jack does not understand the importance of having the shelters built as much as Ralph does. Likewise, Jack neglects the fire in order to go on a pig hunt. This causes a ship to not notice and to bypass the island. “There was a ship. Out there you said you’d

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    the system of people, laws and officials that define and control the country that you live in. In the film, “Lord of the Flies”, a group of British boys are stuck on an island by themselves and must learn how to survive in a habitat that consists of pigs, fruit trees, a “beastie”, and bad decisions. Throughout the film the characters illustrate the following purposes of government, to form a more perfect union, promote the general welfare and provide for the common defense. First and foremost

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    Things are not always how they seem: How masks conceal a true identity There is something that all people have in common: masks. Whether it is behind a computer screen, a Halloween mask, or makeup, all people have one thing that they hide their true identity behind. At the time, World War II was a furious war filled with atomic bombs and thousands of deaths. Soldiers across the country were putting on their uniform and going out to battle. Millions of people died during this war- and most of

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    very human is a savage. All of us has something savage within our lives.Were all born savage. When were born people learn humanity and from what’s right and wrong. In the book “The Lord Of The Flies” The boys are definitely considered savages .It is evident that when you're at home, you're taught what’s right and wrong, but in the book there are no parents, another reason is the characteristics of humanity was low such as being civilized. Lastly is the way they talk and treat things/others shows

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    very hard to keep, thus making it not very difficult for them to descend into savagery. The first time the boys started to show signs of savagery was when Jack and some other boys split off and made a “tribe.” They put on face paint and hunted the pigs religiously not caring for their rescue, as all of them had already assumed they weren’t going to get rescued. Killing Simon and Piggy showed the true evilness in humanity when civilization falls. Jack and his tribe went mad after that going on a

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    survive. In the text, the boys hunt for pigs in order to eat and were successful. This was a big achievement since this was the first hunt they actually caught something. “They surrounded the convert...the snow fell and the hunters hurled themselves at her. [stabbing until] the sow collapsed under them” (LOTF<135). Over the course of a few months and many trials and error, the boys, specially Jack’s group, learned to perfect the technique. After killing pigs for food, the boys began to have a thirst

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