Lord Farquaad

Ralph and Piggy show their unique personality traits in this chapter, which causes them to do actions that are irrational or well thoughtout. Piggy shows his bravery and maturity, while Ralph shows his passion and irrationality. To begin, Piggy was very courageous and showed his maturity when going after Jack. For example, when he proposed the plan to the others he spoke with such fluency that I believed in him. Even though he was scared and trembling when he finished, his bravery shocked me.…

It's January 2, 1994; the air is freezing as he breathes it in, and the sun seems to have forgotten to come out this morning. As the snow whirls around the frigid air under the dark sky, the 21 year old lawyer, Sean finally reaches the door of the airport. Sean, who has spent the last week in France for a vacation before the holidays, is exhausted and longing to be home with his family back in Chicago, Illinois. Sean got to the baggage and security lines around 6:30 this morning, completely…

In the novel Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, the author effectively uses various themes to weave the story together. One interesting theme he uses is human capacity for evil. Two characters, Jack and Ralph, have the same ambition, yet try to achieve their goal using different methods. Jack is wealthy, bossy, opinionated and uses his intelligence to deceive and manipulate others. For example, Jack says to the group "Tonight we're having a feast. We've killed a pig and we've got…

Imagine finding a door that leads to a faraway magical land that no one else even knows exist. In his fiction book the Chronicles of Narnia the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis takes us through such a door and into the land of Narnia. His book leads us on a magical adventure filled with courage, strength and hope. Reminding those that follow along with his adventure to never give up hope and that you can find courage and strength from all those around you. C.S. Lewis was a Fellow…

“ “Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.” ( Stephen King). The Hobbit, written by J.R.R Tolkien and directed by Peter Jackson, is about a creature called a hobbit. This hobbit’s name is Bilbo and he goes on a demanding adventure with a group of dwarves ,to steal what is rightfully the dwarf leader, Thorin . Bilbo ends up facing near death situations, fighting nasty creatures and, makes a few friends. Jackson's version of the Hobbit,…

back to a proper civilization. In the 1950’s an author named William Golding read that story and believed that that wouldn’t be what would happen to a group of boys with no adults, so he wrote his own take on the story in a novel called Lord of the Flies. In Lord of the Flies a group of boys are stranded on a lively island rich in the resources that they need to survive and because one of the boys has a father with some significance in the Navy, they also have a potential to be rescued quickly.…

The book Lord of the Flies was driven by what Author William Golding considered to be human evil. Human evil, involves the examination of human nature and the causes, and effects of evil. It also demands for an observation of the methods that humans use to fight off evil, and whether the methods used are effective. Golding uses characters from Lord of the Flies such as Simon, Ralph, Piggy, Jack, and of course The Lord of the Flies to explain different ideas of evil throughout the story. For…

Lord of the flies is an interesting and startling story about a group of young boy’s age’s six to twelve. They crash land on an island and, are forced to learn how to survive. Similar to the U.S when it was brought to the brink of destruction. Ralph, leads with stubbornness, which is similar to Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln and Ralph are similar in their stories. Both have had their people split into two, and are determined in achieving in their goal, they also had people against them. First,…

SANDLOT OR SANDNOT? A movie set during the early 1960’s in California , The Sandlot is a light hearted family baseball comedy tweens and kids would love. The movie is based on a new kid moving into town who makes friends with the boys in his neighborhood by being picked up on their little neighborhood baseball team. At first the young boy was rejected by the other boys because he didn’t know how to play baseball like all the other ones and didn’t know all the facts and famous ball players like…

In Lord of the Flies, there has been a plane crash and boys are left stranded on an island in search for help. Theses boys must create their own society and have it be successful if they want to survive. The author uses language regarding the weather on the island to symbolize the changes in the character’s attitudes and the underlying tension that builds throughout the book. Throughout the book the weather progresses from light to dark and then to light again. The changes in weather and the…