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    things go wrong. In order to have a civilized life nowadays people adjust according to the problem or situation. Lord Of The Files, a book written in 1954 by William Golding communicates a story in which a young group of boys stranded on a deserted island govern themselves in order to keep things civilized. After reading the book Lord Of The Flies the author argues that a person 's idea of civilization is influenced by surroundings, which is shown through background and history influencing…

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    of little boys after a plane crash to relate the creation of a dystopia in result of failed leadership. A plane carrying a group of British schoolboys is shot down into a deserted island. All the adults that were present in the plane, have died. Only the children remain, where they find themselves on an uninhabited island, without adult supervision. The boys need to find a way to survive, and revert to voting for a leader. The boys originally vote Ralph, a productive and charismatic young man,…

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    the reader. In this novel, you see the depiction of three different forms of societal living; their government-run home-life, and then of course, the two attempted rules under Ralph and Jack. When our characters first find themselves on a deserted island, their…

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    In the end it’s always the strongest who wins Lord of the flies is a novel written by William Golding. The book is set on an island where a group of young boys gets stranded after a plane crash. The boys are there alone without any adults and is forced to fend for themselves so they make up some rules and decides duties for everyone, with the main objective to survive and get rescued. In the beginning they work well together with hunting food, keeping a signal fire going etc. But this system…

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    Radhik Patel (Date) The Lord of the Flies Jack, one of the main character in The Lord of the Flies by William Golding goes significant change. After a plane crash, some schoolboys find themselves on a deserted island without any adults. This leads to the boys gathering where the boys and pick a leader. They choose Ralph as the leader, which dissatisfies Jack. Ralph appoints the boys to their jobs, and puts Jack in charge of hunting. Jack is a innocent twelve year old boy when he arrives,…

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    Golding, a group of young boys are involved in a plane crash and become stranded on a deserted island after an attempt to escape from the dangers of World War II. When the boys first arrive on the island, it is peaceful and untouched by mankind, but over time the boys slowly damage the purity of the island as they begin to make fires and start a civilization. They work together and scavenge the island for resources in order to ensure their survival. In need of rescue, the boys gather…

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    The year is 1954 and you and many other boys get shot out of the sky in an atomic war and end up on an island with no grown-ups. I’m sure many are excited to finally be away from adults and free from all worries however, trouble arises. You start to face problems you’ve never faced before such as where your next meal will come from and will you ever be saved from this wretched place. You soon become annoyed by these problems and you start to imagine things. You now blame these problems on…

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    out of the forest and into the desert. Even though this desert wasn’t nearly as hot as a real one it had felt as long as a real one to him. Making his way all the through the long not very hot dry desert he reached the end with no problems except his legs that were beginning to wear out but he wasn’t going to give up even if it did cross his mind few times he kept going on. He was now about half way there to his destination by now but a few steps out of the desert he made his way through loess…

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    was going on at the time. Sadly, their plane got shot down and they ended up crashing on an unknown island with no adult survivors. Soon, these boys develop a fear of “the beast”. Now the question is: what is the beast? The beast signifies the unknown; they classify the beast is made up of three things: fear, war and human nature. In the Lord of the Flies, the boys that are stranded on the island first come to the idea of a beast from the Boy-With-The-Birthmark. “The younger children first,…

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    Lord of the Flies, a group of adolescent boys are left stranded on a deserted island after being ejected from a plane as it was crashing down. The children are faced numerous complications. The conflicts begin from the nature of the island, but then stem from within the contrasting nature of the boys. Piggy and Ralph attempt to set up rules and instill order. However, Jack desires a more primitive way of living on the island which causes Jack and Ralph to clash. Throughout the book, Golding uses…

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