Betrayal In Lord Of The Flies

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Betrayal is a common theme across fiction literature and media. Showing moments of a person turning his back on his boss, leader, and superior power to become independent. Or gather their own people and fight back, become rival of their former boss. Betrayal would be like, putting your loyalty in someone, and them turning their back on yours. It is something that can happen to anybody in the real life and Paradise Lost by John Milton, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, and the hit TV series El Chema by Rafael Amaya all have the realistic and eye opening portrayals of betrayal and the impact it can have on the lives of the characters involved.
Satan’s fall is a small portion of Paradise Lost and describes how Satan was sent to hell. The
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With no adults around, the boys are left to work together and survive for themselves. Things start out okay. They use a conch shell as a talking stick, and Ralph, one of the older boys, is elected “chief” or “leader” of all them. Trouble beings because they’re afraid of a “beast” somewhere on the island, and then they decide to build a signal fire using the glasses of a boy named Piggy. But Jack, jealous of Ralph’s power, decides the boys should focus more and use their energies for hunting food instead of maintaining the fire. The longer they’re on the island, the more savage Jack and the boys …show more content…
El Chema Venegas (Mauricio Ochmann) is a man with two very accurate skills: He is great in getting away from the authorities and knows how to persuade people to help him. It’s able to see because of his constant and venomous confrontations to achieve his place of powerful boss in the world, and the fight whenever adversity took him to be stopped by the government. El Chema is so influential and good with his words, and he mostly is able to persuade women that are related either with his enemy, in the DEA or just a lady he met at the bar he wants to sleep with. He becomes one of the most wanted people by the U.S. Government and Mexico

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