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One pivotal moment in the fiction novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, occurs towards the end of the story’s procession when one the protagonist’s friends gets killed. In the early chapters of the book, you learn that a plane full of schoolboys crashes on an island. Without adults ordering them around, the boys of ages 6-12 joyfully spend their days playing at their free will. They select the protagonist, Ralph, to be the chief because he called them all to a meeting by blowing into a…

Does man naturally have brutality within them ? William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies, creates a theme out of this question in his novel. Lord of the Flies is a novel about boys ages 6-12 that have crash landed on an uninhabited island during war time. It was written to show how Goulding believes boys would act is put into a similar situation without adults present. Some of the boys who were part of the crash land are Ralph the leader, Piggy the intellectual one, and Jack and Roger the…

The structures of handling power can change people's image and perspectives. During the Lord of the Flies by William Golding tells the story of boys who get lost on a deserted island. Thus trying to survive without adult supervision and putting together a civil group. Then they boys end up going different way because of different perspectives of Ralph and Jack. But going in depth of the story’s theme, it’s about the controlling and usage of power. How can the person using power change or affect…

Some think of fire as fearful and bad, others think of it as technology and useful, in some cases it can be both. In the book by William Golding, Lord of the Flies it is both. During the time of the war going on in Europe a group of boys are sent out in a plane and when the plane crashes disaster strikes the boys as they are stranded on an island trying to survive. Ultimately fire is a huge symbol in the book as it symbolizes hope, distress, and relief. At the beginning of they story the symbol…

Experiences early in life enriches one’s wisdom. Wisdom is defined as being able to know what is right from what is wrong. Jerry, the protagonist from “Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing, gained wisdom and maturity when he completed his journey. Jerry’s journey began when he wandered to a mysterious bay and found a group of boys diving into the ocean. The group of boys noticed Jerry and invited him to join them. “He felt he was accepted and he dived again, carefully, proud of himself.” Jerry…

Lord of The Flies, The Symbolization of The Beast How far can the mental figure of a beast go before it’s too much? Lord of The Flies takes place on a island in the Pacific Ocean during the second World War. After a British aircraft transporting school boys crashes on an island they’re faced with the task of surviving with the help of adults. They develop the figure of a beast that is used to represent fear, war, and the savagery of human nature throughout the book. Initially, the younger…

Rainsford was awoken the next day by a very putrid odor. Rainsford got up to investigate. Many thoughts ran through Rainsford as the odor became richer, “Has someone come to the island...is that waste...the musky water.” Rainsford walked outside to the dog pen and discovered that it was the rotting remains of General Zaroff, who just the night before was fed to the bloodhounds. However at that moment he heard a very outlandish noise. Rainsford went to investigate that piccular noise. As he…

In the poem, “Icarus”, by Edward Field, an allusion to the Greek myth of Daedalus and his son Icarus is present in the setting of a modern society. In the original story, the father and son developed wings to fly away from the prison they were trapped in. When Icarus attempted to achieve greatness by soaring too close to the sun, his wings melted and he plummeted to his death in the sea. However, in Field’s poem, Icarus did not drown and is surviving in a contemporary setting in which he feels…

When Kids Ruled the West Nia Scott Marty: A Wild West Neverland, is a Western Film set in a world inhabited only be kids. Marty and Dee must face One-Eyed Johnny and the Krimson Kids in a fight against tyranny in the West. The film was directed and produced by Vu Hoang. It was nominated for Best Short Film Comedy in the 2016 Los Angeles New Filmmakers, and won multiple awards at The Wild Bunch Film Festival of 2016. Marty and his friend Dee are out playing with their wooden horses and…

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, conflict - both internal and external - portrays a major development in the theme and plot of the young boys in this novel. On an island composed of only pre-adolescent boys, it is unquestionable that there would be conflict amongst them. Golding blatantly shows the reader the external conflicts that occur between one another, including both physical and verbal altercations. The author also cryptically gives the reader a display of the conflict…