Essay Prompt: In a multi paragraph response, compare the similarities and differences between how the US government was established through the Articles of Confederation through the Constitutional Convention with how government was established in Lord of the Flies. Create a cohesive thesis statement and then use textual evidence from both the SS text and LotF to support your arguments.
*Multi paragraph responses are more than five paragraphs in structure. **Rubric will be in the classroom as an attachment.
Right and Wrongs of Government Values
Society is what holds everyone together and without society, our ideals, values, and sense of right and wrong are lost. Society is a binding that holds together the culture of a population, …show more content…
The conflict between Jack and Ralph reflects on this claim for the novel Lord of the Flies. The conflict between the boys start at the beginning of Chapter 1, but remains faint as the other boys feel as they should work together to create a community. In Chapter 1, as Ralph and Jack argue they try to give their point of view without seeing it from an another perspective; Ralph advises that they should build huts, while Jack stubbornly counters his idea and favors hunting. Ralph, who thinks about the overall good of the group, considers hunting pointless. Jack, attracted to the ecstasy of hunting by his bloodlust and desire for power, does not care about building huts or what Ralph has to say. This relates to the then government of federalists and anti-federalists with their disagreements and struggle for …show more content…
At this point in the novel, the group of boys has lived on the island for some time, and their society increasingly resembles a political state. By this chapter, the boys’ community mirrors a political society, with the faceless and frightened littluns resembling the masses of common people and the various older boys filling positions of power and importance with regard to these underlings. The boys’ fear of the beast becomes an increasingly important aspect of their lives, especially at night, from the moment the first littlun claims to have seen a snake-monster in Chapter 2. In this chapter, the fear of the beast finally explodes, ruining Ralph’s attempt to restore order to the island and precipitating the final split between Ralph and
*Multi paragraph responses are more than five paragraphs in structure. **Rubric will be in the classroom as an attachment.
Right and Wrongs of Government Values
Society is what holds everyone together and without society, our ideals, values, and sense of right and wrong are lost. Society is a binding that holds together the culture of a population, …show more content…
The conflict between Jack and Ralph reflects on this claim for the novel Lord of the Flies. The conflict between the boys start at the beginning of Chapter 1, but remains faint as the other boys feel as they should work together to create a community. In Chapter 1, as Ralph and Jack argue they try to give their point of view without seeing it from an another perspective; Ralph advises that they should build huts, while Jack stubbornly counters his idea and favors hunting. Ralph, who thinks about the overall good of the group, considers hunting pointless. Jack, attracted to the ecstasy of hunting by his bloodlust and desire for power, does not care about building huts or what Ralph has to say. This relates to the then government of federalists and anti-federalists with their disagreements and struggle for …show more content…
At this point in the novel, the group of boys has lived on the island for some time, and their society increasingly resembles a political state. By this chapter, the boys’ community mirrors a political society, with the faceless and frightened littluns resembling the masses of common people and the various older boys filling positions of power and importance with regard to these underlings. The boys’ fear of the beast becomes an increasingly important aspect of their lives, especially at night, from the moment the first littlun claims to have seen a snake-monster in Chapter 2. In this chapter, the fear of the beast finally explodes, ruining Ralph’s attempt to restore order to the island and precipitating the final split between Ralph and