Lost Boys: The Tribe

these children wondered for years in search of safety, eventually finding refuge in a camp in Kenya miles from their homes. They became known as the lost boys and the lost girls. The film The Good Life is based on the lives of these children and tells the story of their experience, strength, and hope. The movie is based on actual stories told by lost boys in interviews. I thought the movie was well written and did a great job of showing what these children experienced during this tragic time,…

personalities and actions of the people helps preserve the positive base human nature is built upon. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding does not paint an entirely negative picture of human society because a glimpse of positivity is still present. The boys perform acts of good that helps keep hope alive through all the chaos on the island. In the novel, Jack, the antagonist, is undoubtedly a downfall in the society of the island due to his desire to kill but not all of his actions are…

Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a classic book about a group of young English boys who crash land on a deserted island with no adults to guide them. They develop a small civilization in which the boys have jobs and rules under the leadership of Ralph. Ralph’s antithesis, Jack, establishes his own tribe of hunters which reverts to savagery and steadily increases in size as promises of meat and fun begin to lure in men of Ralph’s tribe. For the duration of their stay on the island, there is rumored…

Indian tribes started taking captives. Like the Apache, Comanche, Kiowa, and Wichita tribes. Captives was mostly fraught and lots of hardships, The captives survival mostly depended on the captor and that could vary from tribe to tribe. Different tribes varied on different ways to treat their captives most tribes treated captives with unexpected respect. Tribes would adopt captives into their family and raise them as one of their own. They would adopt captives because families might of lost…

At the start of the novel the conch shell symbolizes order. Soon after the boys arrive on the island, Ralph blows the conch and they gather on a large rock and form an assembly. After selecting Ralph as their chief, the boys quickly realize that with so many of them trying to talk during the assembly at once, no one can be understood, and with no adults around, they must establish a working society. Ralph suggests “‘I’ll give the conch to the next person to speak. He can hold it when he’s…

consequences, it is something one gains from losing an important quality. This quality is in every child, but in no adult. One can have, but it is lost forever once this “growth” happens. In “Lord of the Flies” one character specifically goes through this type of “growth,” this character is Ralph and the quality that he lost is his innocence. He lost this innocence due to experiencing the terror and brutality man can do to one another in a survival situation.…

reasoning behind the choices they make. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the lord of the flies is the central symbol itself due to its influence in the masks, the loss of order, and the cruel actions the boys partake in that are the causes of their downfalls. The masks that the boys wear ultimately begin their descent into savagery. When the first masks are applied by Jack, he and his hunters are finally able to kill the pig they were previously unable to harm. Golding foreshadows the…

of the Kwakiutl tribe in the Northwest Cost of North America. The masks of the Kwakiutl tribes would represent an animal and would open up into a mask of a human. When dancers where wearing the masks they would be transformed into the animal they were representing. I decided to make a mask that on the outside was a sleeping person but on the inside would show the different personalities. The different symbols inside the mask represent things from my culture, Disney. Kwakiutl tribes used symbols…

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, the struggle for power is evident among the boys and proves to be one of the main contributing factors towards their fate on the island. The main antagonist, Jack, is seen constantly fighting for power and leadership over the small group of boys, and because of this, it results in a rift among them, eventually leading to 2 deaths along with the loss of a civilized society. The struggle for power also helps enhance several points made in Golding’s work by…

Clever Coyote By: Ziching Yang #26 This myth, Clever Coyote is a myth from the Comanche tribe. In this myth Coyote, a dog is the protagonist and the monster is the antagonist. The monster stole all the buffalo in the village. The problem is that the monster wants to eat all the buffalo in the village and Coyote found out the monster also has a little boy in captive. In this myth, the theme of the story is, “If you are clever, sometimes you can find a way to outsmart your opponent.” Another…