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Denica @ Myat Thazin Khine Block – D 8 / 24 /2015 Journal-C: Question 2 Lord of the Flies is a novel, representing the weakness of man’s enterprises, showing us how men are born savages at heart, and the fact that corruption of men had nothing to do with civilization. J.J Rousseau had once said that “Nothing can be more gentle than man in his primitive state.” According to his statement, Rousseau believed that all men are born innocent, gentle and guiltless but eventually turned malevolence…

During the novel The Lord of the Flies we were acquainted with character change. We were able to watch the characters transform from civilized human beings to savages. When the novel first starts we are introduced to the main character Ralph and his companion Piggy. When the boys finally are able to meet thanks to Ralph find a conch and blowing it until they are all united. The boys quickly decided that they would make Ralph the leader and we immediately saw his demeanor change. “ It made Ralph…

Imagine a world where everyone has gone into utter chaos. There's no rules, no sense of civilization. There's no good left in anyone in the world. Without society and their rules for us to use as guidelines, the world turns to darkness. This is just how things would naturally turnout without preventative rules and regulations such created by society. After being removed from society, human beings revert to their evil nature and there's nothing anyone can do about the change because once it's…

Who killed young Herbert? It all started on a dark, stormy night, while playing chess. A man, from a faraway land, knocked on the door. He told a tale of a magical paw. The sinister talisman would let you make 3 wishes. In the story ‘Monkey’s Paw”, the son Herbert dies. I believe Mr. White is to blame. Even though Mr. White didn’t mean for Herbert to die, he was still the cause of his death. When Sergeant Morris threw the paw on the fire, Mr. White stooped down and snatched it off of the fire.…

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”, the protagonist Goodman Brown stumbles upon evil incarnate, the Devil himself. Throughout his journey in the forest with the devil, Young Goodman Brown had discovered a disheartening truth about his fellow townspeople. This truth would forever change Young Goodman Brown’s (and the audience’s) perspective of others. To begin with, Young Goodman Brown discovers the devil in the forest just outside of the town of Salem. However, even though the devil…

Epilogue Ralph views back onto the island from the ship deck, seeing flames rising into the sky. He watched as the palm trees slowly caught fire and burned. The sky overhead filled with smoke, until it looked like night. Then Ralph looked forward. The ship was full of naval officer’s running back and forth, helping the boys onto the ship. Ralph could almost forget that the boys were savages and had been trying to kill him. Now, however, they just looked like lost children. On Ralph’s left stood…

It was a dark and stormy night on Three Skeleton Key when three innocent men were held captive in a tall grey lighthouse by gigantic flesh eating rats. With the lighthouse surrounded by great white sharks and the nearest land 20 miles away, they had no nearby help.Itchoua, Le Gleo, and the narrator have to survive long hard nights. Eventually the three captives get out by a dramatic ending. “Three Skeleton Key” is written by George G.Toudouze and was originally just a story,but then later turned…

Traditional heroes grace the covers of comic books, the posters for films, and come to mind first when the word hero is mentioned. Traditional heroes are the Supermen of the world, the ones who are larger than life and embody every perfect trait everyone should aspire to have. Grendel, the hero of John Gardner’s novel of the same name, is not a traditional hero by any means. Not only is he not a human, nor attractive, but he storms meadhalls and eats people for entertainment; yet he still…

How savage are you? We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves. You can only cover up inner savagery so long before it breaks out, given the right situation. In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of British boys are stuck on an uninhabited island in which they try to govern themselves with disastrous results. Through these characters and their actions, Golding communicates his theme that there is a savage beast in every…

The “Innocent” Young Goodman Brown “Innocence is a virtue,” they said but is it always? In the case of Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown,” the protagonist’s innocence may not be a virtue because it gets him into a difficult situation. Young Goodman Brown lives in Salem during the 1600’s, a time period where religion was a prevalent aspect of life. He leaves his wife, Faith, in the afternoon to follow the traveller into the forest to their meeting. On his journey to the forest, he discovers the…