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    centers around the journey of a group of schoolboys that find themselves resulting to savagery after being stranded on a desert island following a plane crash. Golding touches on the Christian aspect by having the boys worship a devil instead of a God, and eventually the devil controls the boys so much that they are unable to foresee a hope for rescue or redemption. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Golding describes the fall of civilization and the division of power through the explicit…

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    learned all there was to learn known to human kind in his fields of interest, and therefore looked to another realm to obtain more. If he could have somehow known everything there was to be known about everything, he would have not sought to conjure devils for he would be…

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    saying I thought he was on Robert’s side and wanted me to let him slide by because they knew each other. God was giving me a way out but I did not take it because I was being led by the devil in my flesh by the heat of anger. When God gives you a way out take it and run! Run! Run in the other direction! It states in Proverbs: A wise man will see trouble and go another way, but a fool will walk right into it. Yes, I was a pure fool that night I walked right into the trouble and did not take the…

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    The Lord of the Flies Published in 1954, The Lord Of the Flies was written by William Golding and soon after its publishing, became a significant part of American literature. Golding wrote and got got published the novel when working as a teacher. Prior to his teaching career, Golding was involved in the Vietnam War, an experience that influenced many of the darker aspects of his novels. His main inspiration for Lord of the Flies, however, came when he, “[...] felt compelled to write about man’s…

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    and therefore explore common themes as well as meanings. The first similarity between “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” and “Young Goodman Brown” that comes to the readers’ mind is the idea of the existence of unknown devils in the stories. In both stories, the devil manipulates the characters and lures them in making the wrong decision. In “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”, one possibility is that Connie is having a nightmare in which Arnold Friend plays the role of a master…

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    In Christianity, understanding the spiritual world has proven to be of so much importance. With such information and knowledge, one can find solutions to many problems. Also, a person can know where to take their complains to, for example; to the devil rather than to God. According to findings, demonic possession is a spiritual attack. It affects many without their knowledge. Demons are the forces that Satan uses to accomplish his mission and vision here on earth. These forces are the ones that…

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    thing I found odd is the fact the devil wears glasses. They were rectangular frames large on his face. They only magnified his amazing eyes. " I don 't want it," I stared into his eyes. They were gorgeous. He staggered back as if I had punched him in the stomach. He looked as if he couldn’t catch his breath. At first he couldn’t form any words. "Why...but it is your soul. How could someone not want their soul back," he looked like he was going to cry. Does the devil cry? I almost felt bad for…

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    The Canterbury Tales, “The Friar’s tale” by Geoffrey Chaucer talks about how evilness shall be punished and shall be put to justice at the end.It’s about a friar telling a tale about a summoner who meets his fate in the woods after a run-in with a devil pretending to be a bailiff/ a yeoman. The personality and description of the friar are reflected amongst the summoner’s action through the power bestowed upon them, the greed when it comes to money and donations and their beliefs in deception. …

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    is a hero or anti-hero. I find in books one and two Satan appears more of a hero and that Blake was of not the Devils party. Book one of paradise lost explains that Milton was not of the devils’ party in regards to Satan was once an angel of light until he went against God. Satan rises off the Lake and challenges God with his speech to get God’s angels to turn there back and join the devils’ army. Satan in this circumstance looks like a hero to readers because he decided to go against the…

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    Bao and Four 's identities are directly changed due to the Boxers uprising against the foreign devils and christians that are invading China. Bao learns Kung Fu from Red Lantern, a Brother of the Big Sword Society. When first introduced in the story, Red Lantern shows compassion to the village that Bao lives in, by helping the people with health problems…

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