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    Who knew that a dirt-stained, timid boy could be the center of a story’s allegory. In the Lord of the Flies written by William Golding, young boys get stranded on an island after a plane crash and they have to survive on their own. The boys end up losing their innocence and turning savage, committing the crime of killing each other and obsessing over a fictional beast. Simon, a main character is the only one on the island who has a spiritual nature, is kind, and wise which corresponds to Jesus.…

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    Leaders tend to destroy or mend a nation together. With two conflicting leaders facing each other throughout the novel, it brings tough times for the boys. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies follows Ralph and Jack, the two leaders, plus a numerous amount of boys as they face challenges on the island that they are trying to survive on. In Lord of the Flies, Jack displays his strength in leadership using power, charisma, and dominance to triumph over Ralph. Jack’s display of power towards the…

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    Lord of the Flies, was written by William Golding in 1954. The novel is about a group of boys, ages 6 - 12, who get stranded on a deserted island during a plane crash. With no adults around, the boys are left to fend and govern themselves. It started off well but as one can imagine leaving young, immature boys in charge of one another was not the best thing to have occurred. In this book Golding gives the reader a glimpse of the savagery that underlies even the most civilized human beings. Now…

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    Children like to rough house. They wrestle and play other games that sometimes get out of hand and this often causes accidents were the children get hurt. In The Lord Of The Flies written by William Golding an airliner full of children crash landed on a deserted island. Golding writes about how he believes a group of children would survive. The children get along seemingly okay at first but it 's not long before the law, order, and all other existence of civilization disappear on the children 's…

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    In 1954, William Golding wrote a book called “Lord of the Flies”, which was an allegory of real life events that were happening at the time. The fictional book is set during WWII, when a plane with a bunch of boys crashes on an island. With no adults left alive, they were forced to fend for themselves; to find a way to survive without falling into the shadow of savagery. In the end, the shadow does take over most of the boys and they go into war to try kill the only other boys who are still…

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    just wanted to get home. In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, a seemingly good character gets enticed, and persuaded by the good fortune that comes with chaos, so he does corrupt things to reach the top, but in doing so those who were his ally lost trust in him and ended up being his downfall. A famous quote from Macbeth, said by three witches “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” (I,i,11) is a perfect example of how order and…

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    saying that’s there’s no power and order at this end of the island.“Simon's dead body moved out toward the open sea” (177). Simon symbolizes good and innocence and by his body leaving the island it represents that the kids lost the good in them and they have become savage and lost of innocence.As I stated in this paragraph that the conch symbolizes power and Simon’s death symbolizes innocence leaving the island and they turn savage go to the overall theme that I said that fear can cause people…

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    Civilization Vs Savagery

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    Sinking into the gruesome life of savagery, slitting pigs’ throats, tearing apart their flesh for food, leaving the civilized manner of rules and keeping order behind, would you lose all your morals? In the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, a group of boys is stranded on a jungle island after their plane crashes. They are left with no adults to guide them, they must govern themselves. They begin with trying to keep their civilized manner and compose rules to govern themselves, but…

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    In the novel Lord of the Flies the most essential part is the setting is the island the boys arrive on. An example of why the island is the most important part is because it's where the boys will be for the whole story and it can be either a paradise or a destroyed eutopia. Something that was very pushed at the beginning was how there was no plane debris and the boys were unhurt. The boys have a fresh water section in the island for a supply of fresh water for all their activities and drinking.…

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    The Will to Survive in Castaway and Life of Pi Seclusion from civilization can change anyone. It can create killers, cannibals, and turns intelligent people into nothing more than animals concerned only with where their next meal will come from. Both Castaway and Life of Pi revolve around men alone, taken away from the comforts of society and facing impossible odds. Castaway is about a FedEx employee named Chuck Noland, the only survivor of a plane crash, who lands on an island and is forced to…

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