Jfk Lord Of The Flies Comparison Essay

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Lord of the flies is a dangerous novel. This classic novel reveals a lot about us and our humanity, it shows the different levels of our race and separates the lower structure “littleuns” to those who hold power “biguns” it’s all just a level of power and whom are in power have control over those who are just “ordinary” standby human beings.The movie JFK, is also a dare you to think beyond what you are told movie. Both of these literary works, depict the struggles between the classes. In the novel there is a group of boys from an English military school, whose plane crashes and in turn they are stranded on an island alone. They tried to save everyone they could from the wreck but some “littleuns” did not make it. They get there and have a meeting and ralph is higher ranking than Jack so they vote ralph leader. Like being elected to president same as JKF, Ralph is soon faced …show more content…
The conch is like a musical instrument when you blow into it. "We can use this to call the others. Have a meeting. They'll come when they hear us—""That was what you meant, didn't you? That's why you got the conch out of the water####." They use the conch for calling the meetings and whoever has it gets the right to talk. There already is some conflict between the two boys ralph and jack. Jack wants to bully and rule with fear, Ralph isn’t a big fan of bullying or leading by fear. Piggy is a fat weakling and a follower, but intelligent, he becomes an easy target for Jack. Ralph is very responsible and devises a plan for rescue. Ralph notifies everyone that there has to be a fire that is kept going on the top of a mountain. This is, so a ship or aircraft that passes through, the boys will be spotted and be able to be rescued. “By allowing the boys to create fire, the first necessity of civilization, Piggy's glasses represent science and technology, mankind's power to transform and remake their environment to best suit its

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