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    Lord of the Flies, was written by William Golding in 1954. The novel is about a group of boys, ages 6 - 12, who get stranded on a deserted island during a plane crash. With no adults around, the boys are left to fend and govern themselves. It started off well but as one can imagine leaving young, immature boys in charge of one another was not the best thing to have occurred. In this book Golding gives the reader a glimpse of the savagery that underlies even the most civilized human beings. Now…

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    Exiled from the group, Ralph attempts to survive alone and hides from the same boys that had been under his leadership just a few days ago. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a group of young British boys become stranded on an uninhabited island. Initially, a boy named Ralph is elected as the leader of the group. However, as the story progresses, the group spirals into chaos and savagery. In the beginning, Ralph serves as an effective leader through the initial stages of the boys’ time on…

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    Kayla Hardersen Partyka English, 7 20 August 2015 Reading Journal Chapters 1-2 Character Evaluation In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, Piggy is a self-conscious, proper schoolboy; however, he is having trouble adjusting to the island and the boys on it. Piggy wants to be heard and respected by the boys on the island, but his overweight appearance and unfortunate nickname make it difficult for the boys to take him seriously. Despite being a well-mannered boy, Piggy has outbursts of anger…

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    “Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.” Octavia E. Butler. Everyone needs their “place” in society: leader, hunter, builder, or even follower and securing a place in society can often lead to conflict. The need for hierarchy is evident all throughout Lord of the Flies, a novel by William Golding about a group of British boys…

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    amid the roar of bees in the afternoon sunlight, Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach, pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage, passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands."(3.138). during the feast of the first pig hunted simon sees that none of the boys wanted to give piggy any meat.…

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    Unlike his last encounter with the pig, once Jack receives another chance to kill the pig he kills it without any hesitation. The savagery caught up onto Jack, it can be seen in his crave for power. Unlike the civilized Jack, the leader of the hunters wasn’t enough power for the savage Jack. Jack used the fear of…

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    need to get food for everyone to survive but he disapproves of their obsession with hunting until he joins them and has an amazing time. Ralph throws his spear at a pig and, “he stunned himself in their new respect and felt that hunting was good after all.” (Golding 124). Ralph earns the respect of all the older boys when he hits the pig because he has participated in what they like to spend all their time doing. Their praise gives Ralph the false idea that he is doing the right thing which…

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    There are many similarities between the story of Animal Farm written by George Orwell and Lord of the Flies written by William Golding. Along with the similarities there are a few differences that support the theme of “Your beliefs will define you and will put you into a class”. The novels include different plot lines through the controversies of the democratic society. The similarities include that classes are identified throughout each story, and . One of the differences includes the…

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    the boys valued it more than others. Jack, one of the older boys who gradually became more and more savage as the story unravelled, had a very consistent kill streak. He and his choir boys were in charge of keeping the signal fire going and killing pigs for meat. A relatively simple task in theory, but Jack could not handle all the power and essentially failed to care for the fire. His main focus was killing, and in doing so, he forgot about the fire completely. On one occasion, Ralph and Simon…

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    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…

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