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    Lord of the Flies is often thought about a book that is about civilization versus savagery. Every human being has a good and bad side and the book shows that. In the story, some of the civil kids are Ralph and Piggy. The Savage kids were Jack and Roger. Ralph and Piggy are civil and cared for each other in their tribe and Jack’s while Jack only cared about his own and attacks Ralph’s tribe. Piggy, Ralph, and Jack are a few of the kids that were symbols of civilization versus savagery. In the end…

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    Lost In Death Valley Brandon, Curtis, and Nick just got out of college and was scouted to a MLS team called the sounders. In the off season, Brandon, Curtis, and Nick wanted to go on a trip to Death Valley, and of course Nick thought he could drive there without directions or a gps. But anyways they all packed up to go to Death Valley. On their way there they stop at a campsite to see if anybody had directions, But nobody was there. So they kept on driving, and finally they found Death…

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    "Hey, look at his butt!" Jack whispers, sending his friends into ceaseless bouts of giggles. After fifteen minutes of instruction, the group of five-year-olds retained one idea: Winnie-the-Pooh's hindquarters were more entertaining than learning about hand hygiene. I demonstrate proper handwashing techniques once more, as my pride, and the minute remnants of Vaseline on my hand, make a Usain Bolt-like dash towards the drain of the polished metal basin. As a new Red Cross Club, we had failed. As…

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    World 's one of the best scientist, Albert Einstein, once said," The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but those who watch them doing evil, and it might be right to say that Ralph and his group was trying to stand up for what was right, and get everyone rescued. In the novel, Lord of the Flies, a story centers on group of boys, who were dropped from a crushed plane on an uninhabited island struggling to survive, William Golding represents Ralph as chief, who is the commander of…

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    Despite the unfortunate situation, the boys in Lord of the Flies managed to set up a successful society through their shared goal of survival in the beginning of the novel. However, towards the end of the novel, the boy’s goals shifted and order was lost. Upon the arrival to the island, the boys were planning possible routes to survival. Golding described this conversation with having “The passionate noise of agreement from the assembly”(Golding 37). All the boys had assembled together after the…

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    The allegory, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, is a fictional novel about a plane crash on an island without any adults. The setting of the book is an island; “the shore was fledged with palm trees. These stood or declined against the light and their green feathers were 100 feet up in the air.” And that the is,and is hot and tropical; “here and there, little breezes crept over the water beneath a haze of heat”. There are three main conflicts in this novel, they are a conflict with nature,…

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    No matter how hard man tries, he is bound to destroy nature even if it is unintentional. In the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, a group of young boys are involved in a plane crash and become stranded on a deserted island after an attempt to escape from the dangers of World War II. When the boys first arrive on the island, it is peaceful and untouched by mankind, but over time the boys slowly damage the purity of the island as they begin to make fires and start a civilization.…

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    A 2 inch turtle’s adventure “Speedy, you look like you could use some company like me. You probably don’t have any friends either by staying in that tank all day so why don’t you be my friend?” The boy who was no older than 7 had said to the 2 inch little turtle. Speedy being a turtle which happens to be an animal didn’t respond to the boy but that was ok because the little boy took the silence as a yes. Smiling the two went across the room where the a table was and speedy was then set down…

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    Naturally, little kids are afraid of even the most simplest of things; monsters under the bed, boogeyman in the closet, literally anything: even if it’s in the dark.The novel Lord of the Flies is a book written by William Golding and it’s about English school boys who were evacuating a war that was going on at the time. Sadly, their plane got shot down and they ended up crashing on an unknown island with no adult survivors. Soon, these boys develop a fear of “the beast”. Now the question is:…

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    In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a group of adolescent boys are left stranded on a deserted island after being ejected from a plane as it was crashing down. The children are faced numerous complications. The conflicts begin from the nature of the island, but then stem from within the contrasting nature of the boys. Piggy and Ralph attempt to set up rules and instill order. However, Jack desires a more primitive way of living on the island which causes Jack and Ralph to clash. Throughout…

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