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    Representation in government is vital to a stable and efficient society. A powerful leader, Franklin Roosevelt, once turned a society around when he told the deprived and starving population “ … Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us…”. Lord of the Flies is a dystopian novel where boys are stranded on an island and have to create their own society. While their society starts out promising it turns into a savage like environment as time goes on. The…

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    One pivotal moment in the fiction novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, occurs towards the end of the story’s procession when one the protagonist’s friends gets killed. In the early chapters of the book, you learn that a plane full of schoolboys crashes on an island. Without adults ordering them around, the boys of ages 6-12 joyfully spend their days playing at their free will. They select the protagonist, Ralph, to be the chief because he called them all to a meeting by blowing into a…

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    Written in 1954 by William Golding, Lord of the Flies is a novel written about British school boys who evacuated their school in England due to a bombing and attempt to reach safety on a plane but end up landing on a deserted island. Without any adults to help them, these young boys attempt to survive on the island. They gather around the protagonist of the novel, Ralph, when he blows on a conch shell, as suggested by an intelligent, yet portly boy named Piggy. The group elects Ralph as a leader…

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    The Contrasting Adversaries of the Island In William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, Jack Merridew is major character that has tension with another major character, Ralph, throughout the book, becoming arch enemies, or, rivals if you will. Jack and Ralph have a paramount power struggle over who exactly is the leader of the boys that crashed on the island along with them. The two boys gain and lose followers or tribesmen throughout the book as these two different figureheads clash in almost…

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    Look at the plane's wing, now look back at me. Now look back at the plane's wing, and back at me again. Repeat ad nauseum. Then suddenly, the screen flips over, and your worst nightmares become true. You're trapped on an island, in the dark, with only other survivors of the great screen flipping cruddy sci-fi sound effects in the background crash. But that's not the worst part. Soon, you are split into a truly terrible dilemma, one of choosing two tribes, each with its own fatal foibles. Which…

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    Noah Alling Wepfer English 2 Lord of the Flies 5/23/16 What would life be like with no rules no parents no morales and being only 12 years old? Lord Of The Flies is a story about a plane full of british children that crashes over the pacific ocean where everyone survives besides for the pilot. The young school boys find themselves on an uninhabited island with no laws no parents and just there morales to hold on to. In lord Of The Flies by Stephen King , Piggy and Jack can be catagorized…

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    Lord of The Flies: Ralph and Jack Comparison There will always be someone who is better you, stronger than you. The stronger person will be of greater influence that others tend to follow. However, choosing the strongest person is not always the best choice. In Novel “Lord of The Flies” that was written by William Golding was published in 1954, the novel demonstrate of a boy Ralph, whom was not the strongest boy but show better understanding of people, which gives him better leadership…

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    The climax starts when Simon is alone in the woods, and he begins to daydream and talks to the pig’s head on the stake. In Simon’s hallucination, the head becomes the Lord of the Flies. The pig says that this Beast is something you can not hunt or kill and that he is within all humans. While a great storm builds over the island; Simon starts to walk back towards the other boys. As he stumbles through the jungle, he discovers the beast that the twins thought they saw. It was a dead man who had…

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    I believe that the leader of any group of people should think positively because as a follower, you always look up to the leader. More importantly, followers look up to their leader for advice and guidance, when things become unpromising. If the leader stays hopeful then so does the group. On the other hand, if the leader is pessimistic in bleak situations, then the group loses its self-confidence and optimism. For example, Ralph is the democratically elected leader of the school boys, whose…

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    What decision would you make if you were the victim of a prank? In The Goats book a boy and a girl were left on an island because of a mean prank at their summer camp. The decisions that they made throughout their journey were not wise. Laura and Howie are two kids that got stripped and marooned on an island by their “friends” at camp. They decided to run away from camp and avoid being ridiculed and humiliated. They had to get back to Laura’s mother from another camp that they snuck into. Laura…

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