Beast of Gévaudan

In 1954, William Golding wrote a book called “Lord of the Flies”, which was an allegory of real life events that were happening at the time. The fictional book is set during WWII, when a plane with a bunch of boys crashes on an island. With no adults left alive, they were forced to fend for themselves; to find a way to survive without falling into the shadow of savagery. In the end, the shadow does take over most of the boys and they go into war to try kill the only other boys who are still…

All stories have conflict, a good side fighting the evil side, order versus chaos, in a seemingly endless cycle. In a book called Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of kids are stranded on an isolated island, which brings out their true selves, some being chaotic and savage, others being logical and orderly. The island is divided into two groups, The Hunters; a large group of savages that only wanted to play, hunt, and ignore rules, and those who just wanted to get home. In the play…

conch. “ “The rules!” shouted Ralph. “You’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?” Ralph summoned his wits. “Because the rules are the only thing we’ve got!” But Jack was shouting against him. “Bollocks to the rules! We’re strong-we hunt! If there’s a beast, we’ll hunt it down! We’ll close in and beat and beat and beat!-” He gave a wild whoop and leapt down to the pale sand. At once the platform was full of noise and excitement, scramblings, screams and laughter. The assembly shredded away and…

William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, mentions an individual named Piggy, who matures from being nervous and scared to a confident person that makes his own rational decisions, as well as understands the world around himself. Piggy transforms from being a timid boy to a courageous person. At the beginning, Piggy gets pushed around by Ralph when he “shrieks with laughter and yells Piggy, Piggy.”(page 11) Piggy never liked his nickname that was given to him because of his physical…

A child's normal routine, back at their old home, consist of going to school and hanging with their friends or siblings; however, their norms that they would usually have had been drifting away from them. Most of the boys' appearances had been wiped away with a darker version of themselves instead of their normal innocence. Golding wrote Ralph's thoughts to question "if faces were different when lit from above or below, what was a face? What was anything?" (Golding 78); furthermore, this quote…

The similarities between the novel Lord of the Flies by William Goldfield, and “Asch’s Conformity Study” show that when put under pressure, people often forget their morals and manners toward other humans just to be like, or fit in with, the majority or dominant group. Throughout the novel it has been proven time and time again that all the boys had a tendency to follow the person they felt they would survive longer with. This is really evident when Ralph and Jack get into the argument over what…

Mark Twain once said “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” -Mark Twain. An amazing book uses descriptive words and dialogue to get you hooked. In the story “The Contender” by “Robert Lipsyte”, the author uses figurative language, and dialogue to develop the thesis. In “The Contender” use of dialogue was so powerful in the book. Reading this story was so fun and extraordinary. “A man must have some fear and learn to control it, to make it work for him”,…

common sense and create illogical creatures. Ralph asks the littluns about the beast,…

he hitler youth was a youth organization of the nazi party in Germany accepting ages 10-18, during ages 10-14 they go to hitler folk and after 4 years they enter Hitler youth .it began July 4th 1926 and lasted until 1945. It prepared young boys for the military, and young girls for motherhood. Boys and girls were separated into different groups, not only by gender but by age too. Boys wore a brown shirt, black pants, black scarf and a special insignia that was sown to their sleeve . They…

stranded on the island come in contact with many things that symbolize ideas. Through the use of symbols such as the beast, the island, Simon and Piggy’s specs. These symbols represent that humans when freed from society's rules allows their natural desire for evil to dominate their personality. One of the symbols throughout the story was the beast. In the minds of many of the boys, the beast is a source of evil on the island. However, it represents the evil present within each boy which causes…