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If you were to crash in a plane full of minor aged boys on an isolated island. What would you do to survive? Gather people and assign simple tasks that could get everyone saved. Or, would you just go crazy trying to have fun as there are no laws at where you are? I’d do the first one on my behalf of decisions. Making something that can attract ships or planes isn’t such a hard task to do unless you don’t have the patience to do so. Well that’s what the short story “Lord of the Flies” is all…

William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, mentions an individual named Piggy, who matures from being nervous and scared to a confident person that makes his own rational decisions, as well as understands the world around himself. Piggy transforms from being a timid boy to a courageous person. At the beginning, Piggy gets pushed around by Ralph when he “shrieks with laughter and yells Piggy, Piggy.”(page 11) Piggy never liked his nickname that was given to him because of his physical…

A child's normal routine, back at their old home, consist of going to school and hanging with their friends or siblings; however, their norms that they would usually have had been drifting away from them. Most of the boys' appearances had been wiped away with a darker version of themselves instead of their normal innocence. Golding wrote Ralph's thoughts to question "if faces were different when lit from above or below, what was a face? What was anything?" (Golding 78); furthermore, this quote…

The similarities between the novel Lord of the Flies by William Goldfield, and “Asch’s Conformity Study” show that when put under pressure, people often forget their morals and manners toward other humans just to be like, or fit in with, the majority or dominant group. Throughout the novel it has been proven time and time again that all the boys had a tendency to follow the person they felt they would survive longer with. This is really evident when Ralph and Jack get into the argument over what…

Mark Twain once said “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” -Mark Twain. An amazing book uses descriptive words and dialogue to get you hooked. In the story “The Contender” by “Robert Lipsyte”, the author uses figurative language, and dialogue to develop the thesis. In “The Contender” use of dialogue was so powerful in the book. Reading this story was so fun and extraordinary. “A man must have some fear and learn to control it, to make it work for him”,…

Fear is the most dangerous emotion when deserted on an island. One forgets what they are taught and relies on human instinct to survive. This is what the boys in Lord of the Flies experience when they are stranded without any contact with the outside world. They have to depend on each other to survive. While Jack’s group relies on human instinct and savagery in the face of danger and fear, Ralph wants to hold onto civilization, but in the heat of the moment, fear strips Ralph of formality.…

he hitler youth was a youth organization of the nazi party in Germany accepting ages 10-18, during ages 10-14 they go to hitler folk and after 4 years they enter Hitler youth .it began July 4th 1926 and lasted until 1945. It prepared young boys for the military, and young girls for motherhood. Boys and girls were separated into different groups, not only by gender but by age too. Boys wore a brown shirt, black pants, black scarf and a special insignia that was sown to their sleeve . They…

The Other Side of the Lens Peering through the viewfinder, I adjusted the focal length of the lens. The girls flitted within the frame, fueled by a sugar-induced hysteria. All five cradled ice cream cones, exuberantly embracing each other with sticky hands. Crisp pine trees lined the path through camp, framing the elated chaos. With a click, I stopped down the aperture, extending the depth of field and drawing each member of my wacky sixth grade group into focus. Hitting the shutter, I captured…

Does land have a memory of its own? The film Children of Nature suggests that memory is strongly connected to the land on which the memory was created. Therefore, a walk on the beach combined with the sounds of waves crashing on the shore, and the feeling of wind blowing through your hair may illicit similar or random experiences that occurred years before. In this sense, experiences bleed into the land, whereby creating a pool of memories connected to a seemingly arbitrary symbol of its…

In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, the boys who are stranded on the island come in contact with many things that symbolize ideas. Through the use of symbols such as the beast, the island, Simon and Piggy’s specs. These symbols represent that humans when freed from society's rules allows their natural desire for evil to dominate their personality. One of the symbols throughout the story was the beast. In the minds of many of the boys, the beast is a source of evil on the island. However, it…