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    Certain items mean more and are more useful than others. This is true in stories, and definitely true in the Lord of the Flies. Not only did some items help the stranded boys, but they represented much more than their intended purpose. As the Lord of the Flies draws a reader along William Golding introduces objects, like Piggy’s glasses, that carry meanings greater than they initially appear. Piggy’s glasses represent adults, from the clarity and intelligence they symbolize in their owner, the…

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    Lord of the Flies by William Golding, is a novel about power struggle in a war based world. During World War II, a group of British schoolboys are stranded on a deserted island after their plane crashes. The island has only young boys, none above the age of twelve. Ralph, one of the older boys on the island, takes charge beating out another boy, Jack for the position of chief. As times goes on, Jack extracts Ralph’s power. Through this struggle, Ralph learns to become a leader rather than an…

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    Lord of the Flies is about a group of school boys who are in a plane crash and land on an island while trying to escape war. One of the boys, Simon is killed because the other boys think he is a beast. The boys are all riled up and want to kill something, but it ends up being their fellow schoolmate. The author uses a few ways to represent the loss of innocence that occurs within the schoolboys. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding employs symbolism, figurative language, and animal imagery to…

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    Lord of the Flies written by William Golding is a novel about a group of young British boys who are stranded on an island after their plane is shot down. Within the story, William Golding explores what the results would be if he takes a group of young boys and places them on a deserted island and asks what will the result be, a utopia or a dystopia. As the boys live on the island their morals begin to change and they transform into savages. William Golding reveals how when left to its own…

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    What would happen if a group of boys were stranded in an uninhabited island? Well the book ¨lord of the flies¨ written by William Golding illustrates the cencerio pretty well. This book is filled with symbols and other themes. But the three greater symbols in the book are The lord of the flies, fire, The Beast, and fire. This were some of the greater symbols in the book ¨lord of the flies¨. The book is filled with themes and a great deal of insight into human nature, psychology, and…

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    Lord of the Flies: Jack vs Ralph Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, is a 1954 classic known for its allegory of human nature. A group of schoolboys are left stranded on an island, trying to survive after a plane crash. In order for the boys to survive, leadership was needed, so there was an election between two boys: Jack and Ralph. In Lord of the Flies, Jack is a better leader than Ralph for many reasons throughout the book. To begin with, Jack is a better leader because he had…

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    Chapter 6 of the Lord of the Flies begins portentously and ends ominously. The power that Ralph once had over the boys begins to decrease as the fear of the beast starts to take over. The attempt that Ralph made to try to reason with the boys in chapter 5 is proven unsuccessful in chapter 6. Jack becomes a more powerful and minacious presence to the boys as Ralph remains the responsible leader. The main subject in this chapter is fear and how it affects the boys. The chapter starts with…

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    Everyone no matter how good or how pure has a small link of evil in them. All it takes is a tragic situation to bring out the worst in people. Golding did an excellent job at showing that when he wrote his novel the Lord of the Flies. Goldings novel Lord of the Flies being the devil that came up for the first time out of the pig’s head that Jack left for the ‘beast’ suggests that the evil is inside us such as the Lord of the Flies was inside the pig. Simon was the only one who said he didn’t…

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    What is the thing that is holding us back from becoming savages, is it possibly just civilization and maturity? The “Lord of the Flies” is a great book about a group of schoolboys who struggle on an island to survive and deal with their situation, quickly resulting to foolish violence and savagery. First, I will give some of my interpretations and thoughts of the symbolism in the book, examples are how the fire, piggy, conch and so on affect the meaning behind the story. I will then talk about…

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    William Golding’s Lord of the Flies shows how democracy is doomed. A group of boys from a prep school find themselves on a deserted tropical island after their plane has been attacked and crashes on the ground. The boys enjoy freedom and control. They start organizing assemblies or government meetings. The conch is a symbol of order or the democratic process. Throughout the novel the boys split into a democracy or a dictatorship. Therefore dictatorship works better than the other, as democracy…

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