Peter Benchley

Before the Murder of Simon: All of these boys have began to follow me, they have started to listen to whatever I say and I don’t know how to feel about it. The beast is still scaring all the little uns and they are turning to me and Ralph, but I can’t let them choose him over me, not again. He doesn’t deserve to be leader, he isn’t strong and rich, he isn’t a choir boy. He will follow eventually, no matter what I have to put him through. Simon has been scaring me too, with his seizure and how…

“The tangle of lines showed him the mechanics of this parody; he examined the white nasal bones, the teeth, the colors of corruption.” (146) Simon saw what he thought was the beast, but it was a dead man that was rotting. Simon realized that the littluns and they whole group wouldn’t have a problem anymore because there was no beast in the forest. The beast that Sam and Eric saw was just a dead man that fell from the sky. They didn’t get to see the dead man clearly because it was too dark for…

Lord Of The Flies In Lord Of The Flies, William Golding portrays Ralph as a good but confused leader. When Ralph was first appointed leader, it was hard for him to adapt to that position. He didn’t know what to do with the kids on the island. In chapter five, Golding says “He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet” (77) to show what type of a leader Ralph was…

Power is a recurring idea in Lord of the Flies by William Goulding, whether it be power from the conch, created out of the idea of hope and the idea of having order in the midst of chaos, or the sow’s head, which was motivated by fear. The conch was with the boys on the island from the start. When they landed on the island, Piggy discovered the conch and Ralph used it to summon any other boys on the island. From holding the conch at the start, Ralph was decided as the “leader.” The rules were…

Littluns started to chant, as the storm blew up ahead. “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” they said. A figure came from the shadows and the group killed it like a lion. But what they didn’t know, was that the “beast” is Simon. It was a dark and stormy night, everyone was afraid, there was a monster that could attack at any moment, and they were only kids that could potentially live on the island until they die. Who would be to blame for Simon’s death? Everyone are to blame for…

I was wakened up by Sam and Eric today. They yelled and shouted at me they’ve seen the beast near the fire over the mountain. I was shocked by the message. I believe there should be no beast over the island. I stood helplessly, like a lost soul. The only thing in my mind was to call an assembly, talk about what should we do next with the other boys. The conclusion was, we are going to search for the beast. If there is really one, crush it with our well-armed javelins. Things that I worried…

In the Doctor who episode “The beast below” we get more of an insight on who the doctor really is. In every episode the Doctor goes out of his way to save the human race, and asks for nothing in return, this shows that the doctor is very compassionate. I believe that they use the star whale in this episode to help represent the doctor. Both are the only ones left of their kind, and share many similar qualities, but the most importantly, just as the Doctor, the Star whale comes to help the…

Who is the beast in Lord of the Flies? There where three things that made the boys believe that there was a beast on the island. The first thing that got them to believe that there was a beast was fear. They got scared when they heard they might be living with a beast. Second was they got bombed out of the sky by a plane and landed on an island. The boys’ minds were not in the right state of mind. Third they were just becoming savages to survive on the island. In (Doc A) the boys begin to…

Lord of the Flies by William Golding is classic loss of innocence novel that has been taught in schools for decades, and will continue to be taught for years to come. A group of young boys crash land on an island with no supervision and are stranded there will little hope of being found or rescued. In the book, William Golding uses a dangerous island setting, rich symbolism, and a overall extended metaphor to relate the defects of society back to the defects of human nature. The island is the…

In William Golding’s novel, “The Lord of the Flies” starts out as a group of young boys get stranded on an island with no adults. They are forced to build their own set of rules and society. Golding portrays many unique conditions and situations that symbolize ideas or concepts. At first, this seems like a paradise, a dream come true but it soon leads to conflict. Such symbols as Simon and holiness, fire and power, to beasts and darkness, to pigs and craziness are all what help Golding put the…