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Honors Essay Prompts form The Lord of the Flies 1. Explain the symbolism of Conch shell and how it relates to Piggy’s death In The Lord of the Flies, the conch shell plays an important role on how the kids organize themselves and how they decide their rules. Piggy thought of the idea of blowing the conch to unite everyone on the island, and told Ralph to do it. The noise of the conch was so powerful that all of the kids on the island started to respect the conch and the one who blew the conch…

The play, Romeo and Juliet, is considered to be one of the best Shakespearean plays ever written. This play is about two star crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet’s, forbidden romance, due to the feud between their families. My group and I chose to perform Act 3 Scene 5 of the scene for numerous reasons. The first reason we chose this was because we all agreed that this scene had the most characters present, which was essential for our group, as it consisted of 5 people. The second reason we chose…

“The Tale of Three Brothers” was first introduced in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and last book in the Harry Potter series written by J.K. Rowling. In the story arc, one of the main character, Hermione Granger, narrates the story from her copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard. These tales were commonly read to children as bedtimes stories because they’re “told to amuse rather than instruct” (Rowling 409). “The Three of Three Brothers” relates how three brothers cheated Death…

In William Golding’s book Lord of the Flies, he uses symbolism to express his ideas through items and characters. Symbolism is a process in which an author uses things or ideas to represent something with a larger meaning. In his book he uses things like glasses of one of his characters, a knife, a conch shell, a beast, and a fire. William uses items as symbols to represent the significance of human civilization vs savagery. William Golding was a British novelist and poet, who was born in 1911…

daughter of a rich lord, so the king can acquire more land, even though the son says he rather sing than marry. The prince shot a note outside, were Sir Lancelot the Brave found, and rushed to the castle, where he disrupts the marriage, killing many merry goers and eventually rescues the prince. This scene is targeting how knights think that to obtain a goal or solve a problem is by murdering people, like the Crusades, or the many feudal wars that happened between different kings and lords.…

dark for me to see / I feel like I’m knockin’ on Heaven’s door” (3-4). Gawain is starting to lose hope that he will find the Green Chapel. While on the journey to find the Green Chapel, Gawain finds a temporary place to stay. This castle belongs to Lord and Lady Bercilak. Gawain practices caution as he approaches, but he is welcomed with open arms. As he is approaching, the line “knockin’ on heaven’s door” (5) could apply to his feeling of uncertainty and unfamiliarity. Once settled into…

Safe, But Dangerous How can something be safe and dangerous? Society considers lots of things safe and dangerous; money, knowledge, marriages, promises, and most importantly people. In the novel Lord of the Flies two things in particular stand out as safe, but dangerous. Ralph and fire. The children on the island all consider the fire safety and the little ones think of Ralph as comfort. But fire kills, and every person have a potential to be dangerous. For reasons unknown people are drawn to…

Symbolism is often used by authors to represent important ideas or qualities in literature. Objects, situations and even people, are used to represent those specific concepts that the author is trying to communicate to the reader. In the novel, Lord of the flies, William Golding applies symbolism throughout the book to represent the theme of civilization and savagery that is explored in the novel. One of the very first symbolic objects was the conch shell discovered on the beach by Ralph and…

“War is so complex; human nature is so complex. there is no filmmaker who has ever figured it out the perfectly.” Angelina Jolie. He was portrayed in many different ways by many different authors. In the Lord of the flies by William Golding, he uses a person to pretrade evil unlike in The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie evil is presented by alcohol. Night by Elie Wiesel protrudes evil to be humans as well. Certain situations because people to do the unspeakable.…

In the contexts of the Monomyth, Bilbo and his journey in the book The Hobbit (1937) can be compared to Moana’s journey in the film Moana (2016). J.R.R. Tolkien’s book, The Hobbit, tells the story of Bilbo’s journey to the Lonely Mountain with Gandalf and thirteen dwarves. Moana, directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, tells the story of Moana’s journey to return the Heart of Te Fiti. The Monomyth, first coined by Joseph Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), is a storytelling…