Robert Benchley

The novel Jaws by Peter Benchley was created into a big hit movie directed by Steven Spielberg. Like in with many novels that are created into movies the director have to make changes. These changes help the movie Jaws make a lot of money. The three major changes Spielberg made was making Matt Hooper into a likeable character, the mayors involvement with mobsters, and that Quint is not eaten by the shark. In the novel, Matt Hooper is not a likable character. He is presented as an arrogant

Throughout this oral i will be reviewing the themes, cinematic techniques and props. Jaws is based on Peter Benchley's best selling book. Steven Spielberg transformed this best seller into a horror movie in which scared 95% of people out of the water. This could have easily been one of those cheesy movies where you can just tell what is going to happen but the way Spielberg has incorporated the techniques into the movie is outstanding. Spielberg has used props such as music, sound effects and he

The information we have about psychology today differs from what we knew 75 years ago. The first theory of groupthink was not developed until 1972 in a book written by social psychologist Irving Janis. His theory is based on how pressure from a group could lead to careless judgement. There is now evidence to show how the sociology of groupthink affects a person’s judgement and morals. On the island, the group of boys did not have an adult to guide them, so they had to take matters into their own

Human nature, innocence, civilization, security, and sanity. Each is a common idea in both literature and everyday life but despite how regular these concepts may occur, they are more delicate than they appear. William Golding presents such ideas in the novel Lord of the Flies, which tells the tale of a group of English schoolboys whose plane has been shot down in the middle of an unnamed nuclear war and crashed on an uninhabited island. Upon crashing, the boys discover that they must govern themselves

The first character that readers are introduced to in William Golding's Lord of the Flies is Ralph, a young British boy with fair skin and an athletic build. Ralph is shown to have a child like personality at first; the first thing he does is strip and run into the ocean to swim, and as he looks around he is excited by the prospect of his very own undiscovered island without adults around. However, despite the childish and innocent side of his personality, Ralph is a natural leader and is quickly

A symbol is anything that represents an object, an idea, a character, an action, or an animal in the story. Many times, these symbols signify something conceptual, like a force of nature, a condition of the world, or an idea. In the book, Lord Of The Flies, there are many symbols that signify the beginning or end of something new in the story. For example, the island and the ocean, the water current flowing backwards, and the beast all symbolize a new change and realization to the story. The island

Two main forces rule society. A destructive force and a beneficial force. The destructive force causes pandemonium while the beneficial one maintains order and a humane mindset. The forces keep a community under control while also allowing for some tension. In the novel, The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, two objects represent these dominating forces. They are the conch and the beast. When the group of boys first got stranded on the island, the two characters Piggy and Ralph found a shell

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies a group of boys is trapped on a jungle island after a horrific accident. During their time on this island, the boys struggle to fight against the ferocious side of human nature in trying to avoid turning against each other. The character Simon is introduced and is immediately portrayed as a kind, sensitive and logical boy. Living on this island starts to have a negative effect on the boys and fights begin to break out over leadership. The little boys speak of

In the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of boys are stranded on a deserted island after surviving a plane crash. No adults survived the crash, and the boys must band together and create a society in order to live. Two of the main characters in the book are Jack and Ralph. Although they are physically alike, Jack and Ralph have very different personalities and personify two different types of people in this world. The reader begins to understand Jack and Ralph by seeing how they

When is comes to murderers of all kind “ ‘Malice’ is found if the individual possesses any one of the four states of mind: The intention to kill a human being, The intention to inflict grievous bodily injury on another, An extremely reckless disregard for the value of human life; or the intention to commit a felony during the commission or attempted commission of which a death results.There is no exclusion for children ” (Mauro). In The Lord of the Flies by William Golding a group of young boys crash