Simon says

After seeing that not much has changed, his old friend, Simon, brings him to see a preacher whom he follows: Jesus. Once Daniel is done listening to Jesus’ preaching, he returns to see Joel and Thacia again. Not long after Daniel, Joel, Thacia, and Thacia and Joel’s father eat, Daniel throws water in the face…

by doing these tasks. In the novel, the boys have been stranded on the island for so long that they got themselves to the point where there are wanting to kill the other boys on the island. In fact, they even kill Simon and Piggy even though they didn’t deserve to be killed. The poem says “What man has made of man,” (Wordsworth 8). This means that the author…

and barbaric. Jack is the prime example of this behavior. While Simon and Ralph were building shelters all day long, Jack and his boys were hunting because they insisted that meat was an absolute necessity to survive and did not care about anything else, “He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up” (51). Jack had no desire to create a civilized community on the island like Piggy, Ralph and Simon, but instead, her focuses on killing. Jack has always been a…

him, providing them with pig meat, and offering them protection from the “beast”. Jack proved himself the more superior leader through his words and actions. Throughout the entire story, Jack was telling people what they wanted to hear. If someone says that they want pig meat he would tell them that he would kill a pig for them. If a littlun asked Jack to kill the beast; Jack would go out and…

Irony It is ironic how Simon is murdered for being mistaken as a beast when he is considered the Christ like figure on the island. Jesus is universally known to be the savior, while Simon was on his way to save the boys literally and metaphorically by telling them truth about the beast, he was murdered for being mistaken as the devil (beast). It is also ironic that Jack says, “after all, we are not savages” in the beginning of the story, but he himself becomes the leader of the savage tribe.…

power of the conch, is not pleased to see everybody speaking, especially Piggy, whom he despised. When Piggy is holding the conch and sharing his ideas, Jack breaks in indignantly, “We don’t need the conch anymore. We know who ought to say things. What good did Simon do speaking, or Bill, or Walter? It’s time some people knew they’ve got to keep quiet and leave deciding things to the rest of us” (Golding 102). Jack tries to prevent some people from speaking and sharing their ideas by minimizing…

of Winter The song A Hazy Shade of Winter , is a very popular winter song written by Paul Simon in 1966. The song A Hazy Shade of Winter, portrays a story, and some examples of literary devices in the song such as, repetition, rhyme, and imagery, help deepen the meaning of the song. The literary devices found in A Hazy Shade of Winter, help the reader understand more clearly what the author, Paul Simon, might of been trying to tell us in his song. Repetition impacts the meaning of the song…

someone, stuck his fist into Piggy’s stomach. Piggy sat down with a grunt. Jack stood over him” (Golding 71). He acts like a child and projects his frustration onto Piggy who is a valuable resource and without him they could have possibly died. Jack says on multiple occasions that Piggy is useless and that they should get rid of him while Ralph said that they needed him. Jack is extremely impulsive when it comes to Piggy. He does not listen to Piggy’s voice of reason. Robert Coles, a child…

Life Without Adults Have you ever thought about life with no parents? Well in the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding the characters had to live without any adults at all on an island. In this essay you will be told about how Golding uses this book as a social commentary while showing the evolution of the boy's mental state and physical behaviors as time progresses throughout the story by having no adults. Having no adults affects the kids fighting for power and hating each…

to review was Actions, I did this with a simple game of Simon Says where the students must also repeat the word. This allows for the practice of both pronunciation and meaning as they must perform the actions. At the start of the game I am playing Simon just so the students see how to play and it also gives me an opportunity to repeat the vocabulary in case they forgot it, this way they aren’t embarrassed when they are summoned to play Simon and don’t know what they are doing. Then I allow the…