Islands of the Forth

Lord of the Flies is about a group of school boys who are in a plane crash and land on an island while trying to escape war. One of the boys, Simon is killed because the other boys think he is a beast. The boys are all riled up and want to kill something, but it ends up being their fellow schoolmate. The author uses a few ways to represent the loss of innocence that occurs within the schoolboys. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding employs symbolism, figurative language, and animal imagery to…

Epilogue Ralph views back onto the island from the ship deck, seeing flames rising into the sky. He watched as the palm trees slowly caught fire and burned. The sky overhead filled with smoke, until it looked like night. Then Ralph looked forward. The ship was full of naval officer’s running back and forth, helping the boys onto the ship. Ralph could almost forget that the boys were savages and had been trying to kill him. Now, however, they just looked like lost children. On Ralph’s left stood…

into movies. But his most famous book is “Jaws”, yes it was a book before Steven Spielberg made it into a movie. “Jaws” the book was very famous it sold about 20 million copies, this famous book is about a killer shark in a seaside resort in Long Island in Amity. Benchley has a very unique style he is very descriptive and catches the reader's attention with ease, gets their blood pumping and leaves them on the edge of their seat. Peter Benchley is a very interesting writer he is the…

Golding, is no different. The final chapter, characterized with suspense and bewilderment, creates new conflicts the moment the Naval Officer arrives on the island. When the officer materializes, the scene of someone, an adult, on the island is baffling. The boys are bare, or fashioned in rags, painted in clay, and filthy from head to toe. The island, a backdrop of the horrendous events that took place, is in utter ruin, and ablaze. The officer pegs the island’s catastrophic condition as some…

them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English and the English are the best at everything. So we’ve got to do the right things.” Ralph already recognizes the need to establish a structural society amongst the boys, so that they may survive on the island. He is doing the right thing, establishing regulations and responsibility among the boys, for he is ensuring optimal survival with his civilized strategy . In addition he is creating a civic society that is funded by their desire and need to…

NASA had put out the Apollo program from 1961-1972, with its main goal to put a man on the moon and return him safely to earth. The Apollo program was named after the Greek God, after the Mercury mission, but who was Apollo the God? Was Apollo that important that NASA deemed him fit enough to be a set of space missions? In fact, he was. Apollo was the God of more than eight different things, he has a very strong background, and he took part in many myths. Imagine being good looking and a master…

An uninhabited island somewhere warm would be a dream vacation for most people. A group of English boys stranded together were thinking the same thing. Trees to climb, water to play in, mountains to hike, and animals to kill; until everything went wrong. A rumor of a monster on the island gives the boys a real situation to test the 1932 quote from Franklin D. Roosevelt, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. William Golding, author of “Lord of the Flies”, sets these boys in 1940’s war…

Choices can be very arduous, especially if they are life changing ones. In the book Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, the main character, Jacob, has a to make a decision that will turn his world upside-down. Since Jacob has been on an island near Wales after his grandfather died, he began to realize his grandpa was not crazy, as everyone thought. All of his life, his grandpa told extravagant stories of children who could do magical things, like levitate or lift thousands of pounds.…

special session in the United States Circuit Court where Judge McLean ruled that the Rock Island Bridge could be built. The city of St. Louis was also against the Rock Island Bridge because it took business from them. Benjamin B. Braydon was the chief engineer of the Rock Island Bridge and its construction started on July 16, 1853 and the bridge official opened on April 21,1856 despite the opposition. The Rock Island Bridge would soon be challenged in its biggest case…

many people with different personalities were put in a place to live together as a whole. We all are different, but same as well. “No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” This line is from a poem called “No Man is an Island” written by John Donne. Like Donne said, I think every man is not an island, but a piece of the continent. Different personalities come…