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In The Lord of the Flies, one of the themes is fear. The little boys are having nightmares and are overwhelmingly scared. “‘Last night I had a dream, a horrid dream, fighting with things. I was outside the shelter by myself, fighting with things, those twisty things in the trees’” (84). Phil, one of the littluns talked about what he dreamed that night. He thought he saw a beast in the trees, then another littlun, Percival, talked about how he saw the beast. All the talking about the beast make…

“And tosay the great Yertle, that Marvelous he, is King of the Mud. That is all he can see. And the turtles, of course... all the turtles are free as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.” This is the last stanza in Dr. Seuss’ children’s book “Yertle the Turtle.” Dr. Seuss was an imaginative man, and he decided that his fictional books, writing for children, should have messages in them that mirrored historical events. For example, “Yertle the Turtle” is based off of none other than Adolf…

from his quest is the ring. After the battle with the goblins where Bilbo is left unconscious, he discovers a ring (Tolkien, Ch. V, 65). The ring, which turns him invisible once he puts it on, teaches him how to use magic, or the fantastic, correctly. The first time that Bilbo uses the ring is to escape Gollum in the goblin’s cave (Tolkien, Ch. V, 79). At this time Bilbo did not understand what was happening to him and what powers the ring possessed, but he knew that the ring would come in handy…

“Do you ever look at someone and wonder what is going on inside their head?” (Inside Out, 2015). I do, but in the case of Roger, I don’t want to. In the novel Lord of the Flies, authored by William Golding, an evacuation from Great Britain causes a numerous amount of boys to end up stranded on an island. The desolate and unforgiving island tests the civility within each boy, bringing them closer and closer to pure chaos with every passing day. Chipping away at the civility that binds each child…

In the movie the Wizard of Oz, the is one dynamic character that doesn’t have change throughout the movie, that person is the Scarecrow. He was his same clumsy self throughout the whole movie. Like, for example, when dorothy first found him he was stuck on the pole and he could not get down. When she did finally get him down, he was super clumsy and kept falling all over and could not stand up straight even if he tried. After they kept walking he did keep tripping and falling but he did finally…

Fantasy, in comparison to a lot of other genres of literature, takes a great deal of work. It requires the creator to build a world from the ground up and make it believable. The Lord of the Rings is a shining example of a fantasy world done right, with Tolkien’s fantastic setting and characters. However, what is most intriguing about the world that Tolkien has created is not the many fantastic races he created. What is fascinating is how he wrote the race that the reader is most familiar with,…

In chapter 4 of The Hobbit music plays a big role in everyone and everything. In the world, everybody listens to some kind of music and it impacts our lives so different and sometimes it even impacts creatures in the world. Some creature’s such as the Dwarfs, Elves and Goblins sing their hearts out in all kinds of tone, content, and structure. The dwarfs music is different from the elves and hobbits because the dwarfs music is based on adventure and going to the dragon to get their gold back.…

In the book of "The Hobbit," there was a place with many dwarves, men, elves and more. There lived a hobbit named Bilbo, that lived in a hole in the ground. However, his home wasn't messy, dirty, and unsanitary. Instead, there was a nice painted green door, nice yellow knob, configuration. The Baggins, lived in a area which was a place for them to get a time out of mind. The neighbors, thought of the Baggins to be very respectful, it didn't have to do with them being rich, but they were never…

About The Author William Golding was born in 1911 on September 19th in Cornwall England and he grew up to be a Novelist. He wrote The Lord of The Flies, which is his most famous work and later on he won the Nobel Peace Prize. William Golding worked in theatre to write plays, did poetry, and wrote a numerous amount of books. William was inspired to write Lord of the flies while teaching a group of boys who of course acted as boys would by causing trouble and getting into fights and such. For a…

In lands inhabited by Hobbits in Middle Earth, an old wizard who goes by the name of Gandalf arrives at the “hobbit-hole” of a prideful old hobbit named Bilbo Baggins. Gandalf invites Bilbo on an adventure; however, Bilbo declines as normal Hobbits do not go on adventures, but Bilbo mistakenly invites Gandalf for tea on the next day. Afterwards, Gandalf arrives with thirteen other adventurous Hobbits, and Bilbo is forced to participate in Gandalf’s adventure in the hunt for Thorin’s (one of the…