Guinea pig

situation it sometimes results in people getting trampled. William Golding exemplifies this occurrence in Lord of the Flies with the use of his characters and their actions. For instance, the author shows the boys using Robert as a pig, and Jack becoming more obsessed with the pig and later killing the sow. Other examples that support this statement is the death of Piggy, Roger torturing the twins. The last case that supports this thesis is when the other boys are trying to kill Ralph and how…

Fantastic Fates and Where to Find Them In writing One Hundred Year of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Márquez fuses political commentary, magic realism, and reflections on humanity through his creation of the fictional town Macondo. Despite killer ants, gorgeous women ascending to the heavens, and soothsayers, Márquez claims that “there’s not a single line in all [his] work that does not have a basis in reality” (Hamilton 1). If taken literally, Márquez may be referring to the inspiration overbearing…

truth which wasn’t always the smartest thing even if they were truth. “‘Which is better-to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is?’”(180). Jack’s tribe changed their faces and mindset once they went mad after hunting pigs. Jack ruled them as hunters from the beginning, giving them no options. The paint, spears and civilization went his way. When he allowed all of his Castle Rock citizens to carry spears, they never left their habitat without them. When Ralph,…

2016 2 Pigs were one of the first animals domesticated about 6,000 years ago in China (Bradford, 2015). The domestic pig is not native to North America, it is believed that Christopher Columbus brought them over with him on his second voyage to America in 1493. The wild pigs that became domesticated originate from Europe, Asia, and North African forests where they are still wild (Pig, 2016). Pigs can now be found anywhere in the world except Antarctica. Despite years of attempting to truly…

The Icarus myth is a Greek mythological story about a father and son who tried to escape imprisonment by flying away with fake wings. The father, Daedalus, was “an Athenian craftsman, famous for his ability to invent and build things” (Shmoop Editorial Team). The beginning of the myth gives a backstory about how Daedalus got kicked out of the Athens, traveled to Crete, and ultimately ended up locked away in a tower with his only son Icarus. Towards the end of the story, Daedalus crafted two…

My Father’s Dragon is a story told from the viewpoint of a son describing a heroic adventure of his father as a young boy. The father meets an alley cat who describes how he can rescue a sad baby dragon trapped on Wild Island. With the help of the cat and quick thinking, his father is prepared to meet the wild beasts of the island. This book would be fantastic in a 3rd-grade lesson about sequencing and inferencing. The students can describe context clues and follow the timeline of the story to…

With a film beginning with a demonic boar attacking a village and Ashitaka taking action with a victory, we know that this is going to be a battle between humanity and nature. Although Ashitaka finds victory at the time, we later see that this boar is the leading cause of Ashitaka’s death. There is also a dispute between humanity and nature as nature is not happy with the production of iron due to the fact that many forests are being cleared. We see Ashitaka’s desire to bring peace between both…

Lord of the flies by William Golding is a novel depicting the savage nature of a group of boys stranded on an island. The boys begin innocently enough, but are soon corrupted by “mankind’s essential illness” (Golding 69). The novel makes many biblical references including: Beelzebub, Jesus and the seven deadly sins that are used to convey a message about this illness. It was the sins represented in each character, the boy’s loss of innocence, and the failing of Jesus caused the illness to infect…

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…