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Themes William Golding and William Kamkwamba present a few themes in their books, each differing a little from the other. In Lord of the Flies. William Golding uses the theme that humans can resort back to their sinful instincts. Details that support this theme are “Roger who carried death in his hands”(196) and “Viciously, with full intent, he (Jack) hurled his spear at Ralph”(181) This shows you that Roger, who was once an innocent boy, is now a killer. Also that Jack starts violently…

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, the struggle for power is evident among the boys and proves to be one of the main contributing factors towards their fate on the island. The main antagonist, Jack, is seen constantly fighting for power and leadership over the small group of boys, and because of this, it results in a rift among them, eventually leading to 2 deaths along with the loss of a civilized society. The struggle for power also helps enhance several points made in Golding’s work by…

Lord of the Flies begins with a plane crash. The plane holds a group of people who are being transported to safety during World War Two. The plane crashed on an uninhabited island. The only survivors are a group of boys, all of the adults on the plane perish in the crash. The boys are left to survive and hope to be rescued. William Golding uses the conch shell as symbolism, to show the concept of power and authority. Throughout the novel the person with the conch has the authority to speak…

The protagonists in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies and Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone are forced to deal with the consequences of revenge. In Golding’s novel, young boys are left on an island during WWII with no adults. The leader, Ralph, a foresighted thinker, has a main goal of getting saved and tries to avoid tension at all times while his enemy, Jack, only cares about hunting and cannot stay away from evil. In Beah’s memoir, he describes how his life was roaming around the country of…

William Golding's Lord of The Flies tells the tale of a group of young boys stranded on an island and their life while on the island. The boy's plane crashes onto an island leaving only them alive on the island with nothing but the clothes on their backs. The boy's struggles show Golding's thoughts on humans and how we interact with each other. Golding explores characters such as Piggy, Ralph, and Jack who show certain characteristics that align with Golding's beliefs. His beliefs shape the…

Innate Corruption Humans are beings of emotion and differing morals. While a person’s character can be shaped by situational factors, there are a set of innate characteristic and values tasked to them as a system of survival. In the novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding sets the stage of a group of boys attempting to survive on their own amidst multiple conflicts. They crash land on an unknown island, and soon create a makeshift society where there is an obvious power struggle between two…

In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, archetypes are used to represent universal patterns of human nature, essential in every society. The protagonist, Ralph, is described as athletic, handsome, orderly, and ultimately represents a civilized young man. He tries to recreate a civilization by becoming dictator and establishing rules. However, with only reference to a war-like environment outside the island, evil results and consumes the boys, destroying all order. The author used these…

Morality and Peace in Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a book about the life of school aged boys on an island after their plane crashed, and how they lived without adults to lead and guide them. Due to the new freedom, without adults and laws, the boys forget the simplest components of morality. Some even turn the most immoral deeds, killing other boys on the island, like in the death of Simon and Piggy. But there are displays of morality leading to peace throughout the…

“People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.” In the Lord of the Flies some young schoolboys crash onto a deserted island and have to survive for months. These boys try to live civilized on the island but it doesn’t last long. They did some crazy things that they would never have done, all to ensure their survival. Three of these things were creating and following their own rules, killing pigs for their food and fighting each other to survive. The kids had to create their own rules.…

From his frightening insight with Gollum, the mysterious creature, Bilbo obtains a ring of invisibility that saves the group multiple times from the giant spiders and frees them from the Elvenking’s fortress. Thorin and Co. “knew only too well that they would soon all have been dead, if it had not been for the hobbit; and they thanked…