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    characters symbolizes more than just little boys on an island. The leaders of the Ralph symbolizes civilization because he tries to keep the group civil and together in order to get rescued. For example “If it rains like when we dropped we’ll need shelters all right…” (Golding, p#52) This show him trying to build a civilization to make it seem like everything is normal. The houses are also to keep the children from the beasties that they believe is in the forest. Another example is “I’ll give…

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    the nation, the leader of the government and the man who has total control and power. He is most likely insane, for many reasons. The main reason is because he runs the Hunger Games, forcing teenagers to kill each other like animals trapped in a cage and then rewards them with food and better shelter. In the real world, Adolf Hitler was another psychotic man that attempted to gain total power. He made people think that committing genocide wasn't wrong. President Snow runs Panem in a very fixed…

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    Through a course of events, majority of the boys slowly lose their desire to get off of the island and instead succumb to the fact that there is no authority around, and with such a lawless state of life, they quickly transition from being hesitant to kill a pig to killing each other. The central concern of this novel is the struggle of two notions that rest…

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    Alert Child Soldiers

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    as 5 are taken, given a gun and told to kill others or die. If these kids do get rescued by peacekeepers they go into rehabilitation. Child soldiers deserve amnesty because they were just desperate children who were abducted and brainwashed into killing. Around the world innocent children 5-18 are being terribly captured. Captured then drugged with things like gun powder the same powder they kill people with. Then they are and given a gun and one order, kill. These kids were desperate and…

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    John Doe Film Analysis

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    1.) To stage these murders, it takes a very patient and sadistic person. For the sloth victim, John Doe spends an entire year torturing him before he dies. The killer would most likely have a god-complex as well. They would believe that a higher power selected them to complete their “work”, which is how they would be able to rationalize the murders. John Doe recognizes that he himself is not important, but believes that his work is. This expression in itself indicates a god complex. The…

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    was a bit different, he was fat, wasn’t too smart and had asthma. There were many more people that were on the island that had to survive. Everyone voted for a leader and Ralph won. Ralph said that they need to start by making a fire and building a shelter. Conflict started when started making commands that not everyone agreed with Ralph. So jack, who was someone else in the tribe, went and made his own tribe on the other side of the island and brought many people with him.…

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    This is evidence that they were in a state where there was a lack of concern for human life. Moreover, Jack and his tribe mate started a fire dance exciting them more. They chanted “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!". In the boys earliest edition of this chant it read “Kill the pig! Cut his Throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!” (Golding114). Now they replaced the word pig with beast applying this killing cheer to anything they fear. These boys were obviously lacking concern for…

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    selected as leader due to traits such as bravery as well as being the more civilized one in the group. In chapter 3 we could see Ralph and Simon working together to build houses for the rest of the group to make shelter. Jack and his portion hunted out to find pigs and meat to find and kill to collect their meal. Ralph's group was unsuccessful at their task yet they still continued to work. Especially Ralph as he was frustrated when the houses he made kept on falling down, as his role as leader…

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    Imagine that you and a group of children are stranded on a tropical island with no shelter, no grown ups, and no civilization. Do you think that this new environment you are in will impact the course of your life? I do because the people we surround ourselves with, impact our decisions. To start, the bad people we surround ourselves with impact our decisions by influencing us negatively. For example, in the book The Lord of the Flies, Jack, a character in the book, goes from a nice,…

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    In our seventh grade year, we have read four fascinating novels, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Outsiders, The Book Thief, and Hamlet. All of the books were so diverse, but all of them portrayed the same message of the ups and downs in life. Everybody goes through a tough time at one point of their life and one way that can really help i s literature. It shows that everyone experiences problems and then it lets the audience even more connected when the reader see a similarity from their life to the…

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