Mean Girls Lord Of The Flies Comparison

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There are many different ways to be evil. You can be evil by having a couple of thoughtless followers next to you and using comments to get things done your way like Regina George in the film “Mean Girls” by Tina Fey. Another way would be holding a huge knife and having a bunch of little boys at your side, as Jack in the novel “ The Lord of the Flies” by William Golding. Mean Girls is humorous with fights between high school girls. Lord of the Flies is serious with violence that go from hand fights to murders from boys that are alone on an uninhabited island.Although the novel and the book are about evil in humans there are many differences.

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