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    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…

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    If you were to crash in a plane full of minor aged boys on an isolated island. What would you do to survive? Gather people and assign simple tasks that could get everyone saved. Or, would you just go crazy trying to have fun as there are no laws at where you are? I’d do the first one on my behalf of decisions. Making something that can attract ships or planes isn’t such a hard task to do unless you don’t have the patience to do so. Well that’s what the short story “Lord of the Flies” is all…

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    This novel Lord of the Flies these kids were on a left on an island and a lot of events happening leading up to this.In the novel Lord of the Flies, the overall plot was about these kids that get stranded on an island and were forced to survive on their own and they have a disagreement about power and have a falling out.They fight and some kids got killed.In chapter 9 Ralph and Piggy are going to Jack’s feast and meanwhile Simion is going to see what he saw in the sky and it was a parrishot man…

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    It comes to the point where Ralph is running for his life while the hunters chase him down as if he was the pig. Which is quite ironic since Piggy is dead, he is the new voice of knowledge. In the attempt to find Ralph hidden in the island, Jack lights up the island in flames. Destroying the island — their home. “You’re a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody…

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    because he was sure that it was the same pig that he himself had killed. His heart sank at the people talking about the pig. His conscience began to prick him sharply. It is for humanity that Nathu got terrified and restless. He was drenched off all peace of mind because he knew that his misdeed for five rupees would cost havoc deaths in the locality. Here we may have the reflection of M. N. Roy’s radical humanism which Roy interprets as ‘spiritual freedom’ of a man something even more…

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    Chapter 1 : Old Pervert, Young Thief The sky was dark and filled with stars the moon stood above all with radiant rays of white light shining throughout the land. The sounds of a fire could be heard in a small dark cave on the mountain side within this cave there was a teenage boy currently eating a small piece of chicken which he cooked on the bonfire within the cave moments ago. The boy had medium length black hair reaching his shoulders when one looked at him they would sense a calm aura…

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    were civilized when they landed on the island, but as time progressed they turned into savages. None of the boys were the same as when they first came to the island. This is shown with Jack. At the beginning of the novel, jack wasn’t able to kill the pig because of his morals holding him back, but at the end, he has no qualms killing anything that stood in his…

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    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…

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    Imagine a world where animals can talk and make choices like humans. A coyote that can save the world Tricking a god to smash a rock filled with fire to give the world heat and light.A cat that gives a man everything by tricking people to give him what he wants or give him what he needs. Trickster tales are a huge part of african history. Trickster tales point back to the early egyptians. Master cat and Coyote steals fire are similar and different in many ways making them special. Trickster…

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    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…

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