What Are The Challenges In America

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During extreme times people start moving away from more expected and civil options and transition into radical, uncivil and even savage options.
In our novel, the boys first concern was that they were stranded on an island. Their civil solution was to organize themselves and form a democracy. As times progressed and they faced more challenges such as the rumoured ‘beast’, the boys lost hope in their civil options and looked towards the extreme solutions such as Jack’s more dictatorship like government as he addressed their fears and said he would kill the beast. This worked out in the end for Jack as he got his ‘tribe’ to follow him into uncivilly.
In America, their fear was not a beast, but instead certain immigrants and nationalities of

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