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    In the mid nineteenth century, a movement known as the transcendentalism movement started an uproar. During this time period, authors expressed their opinions on how they felt about human nature, which is also known as how humans acted as a group. Human nature consists of many flaws that previous authors revealed in their works. In his short story Young Goodman Brown, Hawthorne describes how human nature is erroneous or flawed. He tells us through all types of symbolism that humans are…

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    I chose the writing above to insert into the bubble because it is an ABAB rhyme scheme. An ABAB the rhyming alternates lines. The first and third rhyme with each other, and the second and fourth rhyme. I talked about how the dragon is attacking the city with his flames. Instead of calling it a dragon I called it a monster. I called it a monster because it is an imaginary creäture that is huge and frightening. The second stanza or line I talked about how the boy and his dog is in a helicopter…

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    Ralph: Ralph is the protagonist of the novel. He is the first boy a reader is introduced to, and he immediately speaks about his father being deployed. Ralph first appears as a polished schoolboy, but overtime while on the island he becomes very dirty with long tangled hair. He is charismatic, a natural leader, and very moral. He becomes the leader of the boys, and is a symbol of civilization for them. He tries to plan out hunts, and how they can get off the island. Ralph is very smart and can…

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    The Beast Within Us Behind the mask of the frightful beast lies a person consumed by fear, blinded by his inability to comprehend his actions. In the novel “Lord of the Flies”, by William Golding, It shows a group of boys on their way back home when they crash land on an island and must learn how to survive with no adults. Throughout the story we see how the boys become savage and start to lose their minds. Their fear causes them to become ruinous and unaware of their actions. In the video…

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    In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the character of Simon greatly influences the story. The book focuses on a group of English schoolboys who are stranded on an island, and eventually are driven to savagery. Simon, however, manages to stay relatively sane, spouting the truth and acting as a God figure. Simon finds deeper meanings and recognizes the most important matters on the island. Simon is extremely wise and mature, he knows things that the others never recognize…

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    Noah Alling Wepfer English 2 Lord of the Flies 5/23/16 What would life be like with no rules no parents no morales and being only 12 years old? Lord Of The Flies is a story about a plane full of british children that crashes over the pacific ocean where everyone survives besides for the pilot. The young school boys find themselves on an uninhabited island with no laws no parents and just there morales to hold on to. In lord Of The Flies by Stephen King , Piggy and Jack can be catagorized…

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    Lord of the Flies main theme of the human impulse to violence and designed to seal the struggle between civilization and rules to download it to a minimum. Rome during the Conflicts in the clash between civilization and savagery represented respectively by Ralph and Jack is dramatized.Jack, when he assumed the leadership of his tribe, but her service as an idol to worship Him not only others, requires the full attitude. Jack hunger ruling is suggesting brutality and illegal exploitation of power…

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    Savagery Vs Civilization

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    A group of British private schooled boys are stranded on an uninhabited island with nothing but each other, will they be able to survive despite the troubles and difficulties they will face? Within the thrilling novel “Lord of the Flies”, the author, William Golding delivers a profound narrative about how this group of boys deals not only with the conflicts of civilization versus savagery, but also additional conflicts all the way throughout the novel whether it being person vs. nature, person…

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    In William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, a group of young boys, fleeing a war struck civilization, attempt to create their own civilization after their plane crashes on a remote island. As two boys, Ralph and Piggy, arrive, they find a conch shell which they use to assemble the rest of the kids. As the story progresses, the conch becomes a symbol of the order that the boys attempt to develop. Albeit being significantly powerful at the the beginning of the novel, its importance unravels…

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    Lord of the Flies, a novel written after World War II, shows how a society can break down and resort to savagery in a short period of time. Lord of the Flies takes place in a island where thirty children that are boys, no older than twelve survive a plane crash.Golding, the author, shows how everyday items can have a huge impact on the island’s society using symbolism to show the importance of the items.The book shows that an innocent and young society can easily be overthrown by fear and…

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