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    finding different ways out while still taking care of himself by stealing food and water. While he was walking through the palace he found a good way to escape, and I think that it took a lot of intelligence to explore the whole palace, and use the ring to make himself invisible to make all of this happen. Pretty smart in my opinion. I just wonder if this intelligence while be enough to help them in the future when they get to…

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    In the allegorical novel, Lord of the Flies, the author William Golding uses the characters to represent hidden themes and ideas he wants to express to the reader. The central theme of the book is the conflict between human’s internal struggles between our natural instincts of civilization which is the “good” and against savagery as the “bad”. A secondary theme that is equally is important is the desire for power. Jack symbolizes the antagonizing side of uncontrolled savagery and the strong…

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    Lord of the flies! Are you the lord of the flies! Lord of the flies isn't the most relevant to today. This is because we have a lot more research that eliminates lots of world ending thoughts as well as things that people thought were going to happen and didn't When a plane crashes on an island where only boys are aboard ,they are forced to fend for themselves and try to survive on the unknown land, There are no adults and no one knows they are there. They have to find food ,shelter, and an…

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    Imagine being taken on a long journey full of twists and turns and obstacles around every corner. Fighting for your life to reach a goal that seems so far away for many months. Many characters in the book The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien face these challenges when their life is taken over by an exhausting expedition to return stolen treasure. Bilbo Baggins, an ordinary hobbit, is taken on a quest with a wizard named Gandalf and thirteen dwarves to take back treasure that was stolen by Smaug, an evil…

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    LOTF Literary Analysis In the “Lord of The Flies” by William Golding, a young boy named Jack Merridew dramatically changed throughout the course of the novel. In the beginning of the story Jack was a choir boy who seemed very proper and polite. But in this story looks were deceiving. He may have acted proper and well-behaved But his lack of really “living” as a young boy he never got a chance to be rambunctious. It ended up with him being greatly impacted by the elements in the story such as…

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    In William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies, the psychotic children hungry for power and control do not seem as bad as they actually are when taking into consideration the fact that this book was written after the recently fought war, World War II. With the war in mind, Golding writes the novel taking actual events and people of World War II and incorporating them into the novel. The two most distinct ones that Golding includes are Roger, a character in the novel, and Jack’s seizure of power.…

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    Throughout Lord of the Flies, Jack’s characterization throughout Lord of the Flies represents the human psyche, as explained by Freud, in various ways. Although the human psyche being composed of three parts, Jack mainly represents the part that acts upon the pleasure principle, otherwise known as the id. An examples that exhibits Jack’s id-like personality is when Jack hunts the pig instead of maintaining the fire (Golding p. 69). Jack chose his pleasures of hunting over the hope of being…

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    Amber Vandepoele Ms. Rose English II Acc. October 7, 2015 LOTF Lord of The Flies is a dystopian novel written in 1954 by William Golding. The book begins in the midst of a nuclear war, when a group of private schooled British boys crash onto an uninhabited Island and try to establish a form of government that creates disastrous results. Throughout the novel, Golding unveils the brutal truth about the littluns and biguns savage instincts and unmanageable urges. He ultimately links the boys to…

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    Lord of the Flies Summary of the book & cover of the book description The new cover of the book is very descriptive because it shows foreshadowing in many different ways, also the summary of the book is rephrased, and there is a reason why I chose this particular cover for this book. This new cover has a more modern look with extensive color that demands attention. This new cover shows symbolism, and personification. This cover shows a broken object and it…

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    cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all people, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace." This quote explains the book Lord of the Flies in its own way that with out civilization we cannot cooperate like we normally would. With out peace we could go insane. William Golding was the author of the novel Lord of the Flies. In the book he tells a story about how many young boys crash onto an island with no adults. In the story the boys soon go insane and…

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