Comparing Lord Of The Flies And Fahrenheit 451

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Lord of the Flies can easily relate to Fahrenheit 451 because in both stories, the main character and his best friend ended up becoming enemies. Ralph thought Jack was his partner until Jack began to think that the priority was hunting and killing to find meat. Tension between the two continued to increase until Jack turned his back on Ralph and tried to hunt and kill Ralph. Pages 192-200 is the time that Jack is hunting Ralph and threatening to kill him. In relation to that incident, in Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag and his boss, Captain Beatty, went through similar happenings. Beatty and Montag were friends and occasionally worked together, but that quickly changed when Beatty heard Montag was hiding books in his own home. As you can imagine,

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