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    Children like to rough house. They wrestle and play other games that sometimes get out of hand and this often causes accidents were the children get hurt. In The Lord Of The Flies written by William Golding an airliner full of children crash landed on a deserted island. Golding writes about how he believes a group of children would survive. The children get along seemingly okay at first but it 's not long before the law, order, and all other existence of civilization disappear on the children 's…

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    In 1954, William Golding wrote a book called “Lord of the Flies”, which was an allegory of real life events that were happening at the time. The fictional book is set during WWII, when a plane with a bunch of boys crashes on an island. With no adults left alive, they were forced to fend for themselves; to find a way to survive without falling into the shadow of savagery. In the end, the shadow does take over most of the boys and they go into war to try kill the only other boys who are still…

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    All stories have conflict, a good side fighting the evil side, order versus chaos, in a seemingly endless cycle. In a book called Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of kids are stranded on an isolated island, which brings out their true selves, some being chaotic and savage, others being logical and orderly. The island is divided into two groups, The Hunters; a large group of savages that only wanted to play, hunt, and ignore rules, and those who just wanted to get home. In the play…

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    If you were to crash in a plane full of minor aged boys on an isolated island. What would you do to survive? Gather people and assign simple tasks that could get everyone saved. Or, would you just go crazy trying to have fun as there are no laws at where you are? I’d do the first one on my behalf of decisions. Making something that can attract ships or planes isn’t such a hard task to do unless you don’t have the patience to do so. Well that’s what the short story “Lord of the Flies” is all…

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    The concept of freedom and imprisonment may sound like complete opposites, however they are connected. In these two novels, Lord of the Flies, and Tempest the authors unconsciously relate the themes. Both stories take place on an exotic island and the characters are isolated. One story tells a fiction of a group of kids in their natural state with no norms to restrict them. The other is a drama that narrates a man’s excess amount of power. Both reveal that freedom and imprisonment is determined…

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    This novel Lord of the Flies these kids were on a left on an island and a lot of events happening leading up to this.In the novel Lord of the Flies, the overall plot was about these kids that get stranded on an island and were forced to survive on their own and they have a disagreement about power and have a falling out.They fight and some kids got killed.In chapter 9 Ralph and Piggy are going to Jack’s feast and meanwhile Simion is going to see what he saw in the sky and it was a parrishot man…

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    What happens to man’s ideas when rules disappear? Which areas of personality prevail, and which crumble in the absence of civilization? William Golding’s Lord of the Flies explores this idea through a group of British schoolboys who crash-land on a deserted island. They quickly compensate for the lack of adults by electing a chief, Ralph. However, a group of boys led by Jack succumb to their primal instincts and decide to become hunters. Soon enough, most of the boys follow their example,…

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    The Will to Survive in Castaway and Life of Pi Seclusion from civilization can change anyone. It can create killers, cannibals, and turns intelligent people into nothing more than animals concerned only with where their next meal will come from. Both Castaway and Life of Pi revolve around men alone, taken away from the comforts of society and facing impossible odds. Castaway is about a FedEx employee named Chuck Noland, the only survivor of a plane crash, who lands on an island and is forced to…

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    Power is the skill for someone or something to have influence . Lord of the Flies by William Golding discloses a story of some schoolboys that are stranded on an uninhabited island during the time of war due to a plane crash. On the island, the boys live in a self-created society and selfmade rules while they hope to get rescued soon. Some boys have unique powers and knowledge to survive well in wild conditions. The discovery of the conch shell and Ralph’s organizational skills, Piggy’s glasses…

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    Harry Hooks interpretation of the beloved novel Lord of the Flies, is not what viewers would expect after reading the famous novel created by William Golding, the film appears to be anticlimactic. The book sets the storyline after a tragedy of a plane crash sending many boys to inhabit a small island, the boys have to fight for survival, liberty and above all Hope. This not easy as the book so openly expresses. After one has read the novel, they go to watch the movie unexpectedly finding out…

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