End of the Spear

can be and a child from a slum who is familiar with the brutality experienced due to a poverty. Whereas when the slum boy takes out a flute, the rich boy drowns its sound by his loud toy-trumpet, when the slum boy switches to a home-made mask and spear,” the rich boy pondering over his unspoken defeat, given that the slum boy gives up trying to be friends with the rich boy and the rich boy seems proud of his victory” Firstly, the film mocks the idealist notion of kids being only innocent, it…

relationships, fulfilling the heroic code, and drawing parallels to Anglo-Saxon history. One of the most prevalent reasons of gift giving in Beowulf is to cement the alliances and relationships between warriors. When Beowulf arrives in in the kingdom of the Spear-Danes, King Hrothgar mentions that he once knew Beowulf’s father, Ecgtheow and helped him out of an unfavourable predicament by providing gifts on Ecgtheow’s behalf. This transaction between Hrothgar…

This is evident when he claims that he cares more about Moby Dick than his own wife and son. He feels that it is his duty to find Moby Dick and kill him or die trying. When the ship finally finds the whale and spears it, Captain Ahab voluntarily jumps onto the whale to try to kill it. He ends up dying as a result of his heroic trial. He values the death of Moby Dick instead of his own life. Ahab feels the need to seek revenge on Moby Dick because the whale has taken his leg from him. He thinks…

Order is walking on a tightrope; the leader must stay in control or what is once successful, ends up toppling over. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a plane crash strands a group of British schoolboys on an island. The boys, especially Ralph and Piggy, make a system of rules based around a fire and a conch shell. However, that order soon goes away, as fear and destruction take over. At the end of the story, order is completely gone, and if not for getting rescued at the last moment, then…

wins the war with the Trojans Odysseus and his crew try to go home but wash up on the island of the cyclopes They meet a cyclops named Polyphemus who is Poseidon's son They blind Polyphemus to escape the cave making Poseidon angry They sail off and end up on Circe's island Circe gives Odysseus's men special wine with honey that turns them into pigs Hermes give Odysseus a special poison plant that actually prevents him from being turned into a…

Life’s a Beast When a group of children are deserted, their survival instincts kick in. However, as time passes, they become less and less civilized, ending on the edge of humanity and savagery. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies can be psychoanalyzed using Freud’s theory of literary criticism, which suggests that Golding, subconsciously, drew from his own past experiences and beliefs when developing Lord of the FLies. Jack and Ralph represent Golding’s unique point of view on society’s…

As the night starts to come he sneaks over to the end of the thicket so he can look at what jack's tribe is doing. He sees the roasted pig and realizes has hungry. Ralph makes his way back to the beach where he destroys the lord of the flies, grabs the spear, and makes off. At night he runs to castle rock and stares at jacks tribe where he calls out softly to Sam and Eric even though they don't want to…

their arrival the boys try to make a civilized, utopian society, but their civilized behaviors continuously decline and end in the final chapters when their unity shatters to pieces. To begin, the boys slowly lost grasp of any feelings or emotions they had when they first landed on the island. They were all rather belligerent and showed no mercy to all of their “enemies” once the end of the book came around. They rarely thought any plan out thoroughly and mainly ran on pure adrenaline. The boys…

States. During his presidency he applied policies to help improve the country so I believe he had a need to help others. He also had strong needs for approval, social recognition, and prestige also tendencies of those who move toward people. Britney Spears, I believe fits into two categories, both moving toward people and moving away from people. She fits into the moving toward people because she loved the affection and approval she received by being a young pop star. She also fits into the…

Adaptation is a way that an animal’s body adjusts to help it survive in its environment; rapid adaptation usually taking place when there is a sudden change in location or lifestyle for an animal. It’s been scientifically proven that humans, being mammals, also have this occur to them on both small and large scales. Night and Lord of the Flies are both tremendous examples of humans reverting to their primal instincts in order to survive, and both stories fixate on inexperienced children as…