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    In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the comparative lack of civilization makes way for the turn of our characters to savagery, the truest characteristic of humanity. After their plane crashes on an uninhabited and uncharted island, we see a group of boys turn from a democratic, civilized group into a dictatorial, savage group. In the end all is put to rest with the arrival of society in the form of a Navy officer, but the deeper issues are never truly fixed, only postponed and forgotten.…

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    let’s time travel back to when you were little. Many kids have fears such as monsters under the bed and fear of the dark. The same applies to the young English boys in The Lord of The Flies.They came to the island in a plane crash and are called together when a kid named Ralph blew the conch.This story by William Golding focuses on the different fears of the young boys. These fears soon became different forms of beasts.They came to the island in a plane crash and are called together when Ralph…

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    Has it ever occurred to you the monster that could be under the bed could be more than just a monster? Lord of the Flies pertains to a group of boys from ages six to twelve on an island. The group of boys are unsupervised on island with no way of contact. The boys were ripped away from the comfort of civilization and start to develop fears. These fears manifest themselves in the form of a beast. In the book there is beast, whose definition can explain the whole book, can be defined as fear, war…

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    In the Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, is about boys surviving on an abandoned island. There were no adults whatsoever. At first, most of the boys were enjoying their lives without grown-ups. However, Jack and the hunters left the fire for hunting. It burned out, making it the first sign of savagery. Therefore, the novel’s theme is Civilization vs. Savagery and symbolism, point of view, and mood contributed the most to the novel. Golding uses symbolism in his novel. The conch…

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    Isaiah “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood” The blue-white scar was constant, the noise unendurable. Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill. “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” The book Lord of the Flies by William Golding is about a group of children whose plane crashes of an Island. Once on the island they realize their are no adults around the oldest being around 12. They appoint Ralph one of the older boys chief but the little kids don't…

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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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