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    other boys. Unfortunatley, Golding also uses Simon to show how evil is present, not in Simon, but in the other boys. In chapter 9, Simon is to deliver the news on his findings about the Beast, which is a dead man with a parachute who had been fighing in the air war above them. Simon approached the boys while they were in a circle doing the dance and chanting “Kill the Beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!”. The boys that were participating in the dance had misinterpruted Simon as the Beast on…

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    It was a normal summer day in the fields and meadows of a small country side, where a young boy lived by a particular creek, where magical things happen and dreams came true.When there was a breeze the water would mist onto the house,causing it to become a magical house for a magical and tough boy. His name is Floresis and as a young hero, only 17 years old, he can still pack a very brutal punch to whatever stands in his way. He would start off his day by polishing and shining his magic scythe,…

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    Lord Of The Flies Themes

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    of humanity. He shows these themes by using children unacquainted with experience to exhibit the evil within human nature. His characters and objects chosen to represent society and benignity are overcome by their counterparts. The presence of ‘the beast’ is Golding’s way of depicting the manifestation of inborn savagery within humans. Golding used Lord of the Flies to portray his beliefs of inherent evil in humanity and his lack of hope for mankind. Golding believed that there was no hope for…

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    cracks of bone dry branches echo through the twisted wood as the young boy attempted to escape from his pursuer. The child darted between the gnarled oaks and continued to sprint for his life. Each of his useless weapons had been abandoned long before this moment, however the boy longed for the slight protecting his father’s dull sword would offer him. The labored breaths of the exhausted child grew louder as the unseen beast drew nearer. He continued to sprint until, in the brief moment of…

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    A long ago there was a curious boy and girl that were riding with their friends mom, to a corn Maze. The boy was very excited to go to his first corn maze, and the girl was excited to wander around the maze and jot down thoughts about their surroundings. As the car gentled to a stop, the friends looked out the foggy window to see a creepy shack sitting in what seemed the middle of nowhere, next to a corn maze. The children slowly adapted to their surroundings, and gathered the courage to see if…

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    figure. He thinks of things in a different way, Simon is the only one with a real view of the 'Beast'. He has a considerable strength of mind but is frail of body. He enters the book fainting, something that he seems to do regularly and he suffers from epilepsy or some similar condition. In chapter 5 Simon says how there may be a beast on the island, but that "it's only us". He recognises that the beast is not a tangible form but exists as an impulse of evil within each individual; the…

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    more intense. More specifically, when the boys start to fear the island. For example, when Ralph and Piggy approach the shore they describe the scenery to be quite sinister; "The ground beneath them was a bank covered with sparse grass, torn everywhere by the upheavals of fallen trees, scattered with decaying coconuts and palm saplings. Behind this was the darkness of the forest proper and the open space of the scar" (Golding 9-10). In other words, the boys get a bad feeling about the island and…

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    Lord Of The Flies Vs Beah

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    and Ishmael Beah depict the plight of young boys who are forced to endure various hardships. Through their characters’ adversity, both Golding and Beah suggest that fear and the struggle to survive may result in the degeneration of civilization and logical thought, the loss of one’s humanity, and the corruption of leaders. Both Golding and Beah illustrate how society can collapse due to terror and chaos. For example, in Lord of the Flies, the boys heatedly debate the existence of a…

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    this story were Piggy a boy with glasses and is an orphan and the other boys on the island do not like him much, also their is Ralph who is 12 years old and is one of the leaders and he is optimistic that they will be saved because his father is in the British navy, also there is Jack who is the rival to Ralph and is in the choir and the leader of the hunters, finally there is Simon who is quiet and does not do much around the island. What happens in the book is the boys are being evacuated from…

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    I was wakened up by Sam and Eric today. They yelled and shouted at me they’ve seen the beast near the fire over the mountain. I was shocked by the message. I believe there should be no beast over the island. I stood helplessly, like a lost soul. The only thing in my mind was to call an assembly, talk about what should we do next with the other boys. The conclusion was, we are going to search for the beast. If there is really one, crush it with our well-armed javelins. Things that I worried…

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