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    William Golding’s Lord of the Flies follows a group of young boys after they are stranded on an uninhabited island. The story begins as the main protagonist, Ralph, meets the anxious and nagging Piggy. The pair find a conch shell and blow it, causing many other boys to come out of hiding and gather around. The boys decide to elect Ralph as chief, with Jack Merridew, leader of the choir, as a close second choice. Soon after this election, Ralph takes Jack and another boy, Simon, on an expedition…

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    Lord of the Flies is a novel. There is a plane crash on a deserted island. The only survivors were the children aboard the plane. There is a group of boy who were flying in a plane. The plane crashes in the middle of a remote island. They were forced to try and survive on their own. Imagine being a little boy trying to survive on an island with a group of people you don’t even know. If it were me I would be scared and feel alone, and I’m pretty sure that is whole the boys felt. So this forces…

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    Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a fictional novel about how people who are good turn evil due to the environment around. During a time of war, a plane is attacked and lands on a deserted island. There are no adults only children, and they try to survive by themselves until rescue. The main theme of Lord of the Flies is the idea of human evil which is portrayed through major connections to World War Two of physical violence, manipulation, and oppression. The theme of Connections to…

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    In the novel Lord of the Flies, Golding creates a different personality for each child. The three main characters Golding describes each have their own different personality. He also allows his characters to be analyzed and be predicted. The three characters I believe he describes deeply are Jack, Piggy, and Ralph. One character Golding uses in his story is Jack. This young intellectual is a character who was once afraid to kill a pig. Now, he wants to prove all the kids he is the strongest of…

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    In the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, the story begins after a plane crash changes the lives of young, British boys. With little knowledge and sparse supplies, they work to survive on the vacant island that they crash upon. At the start, they even attempt to establish a societal structure of their own in hopes that they will be saved. One character, however, makes it quite difficult to maintain order and stability within the group. Jack Merridew, upon recognition that he does not…

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    The Yasur volcano is perched on a 1,184 foot high pinnacle overlooking Vanuatu. Every half hour, broiling geysers of basalt spew through its cauldron, a regular geological event that has been normal for centuries. Tourists find this easily accessible archipelago one of the safest and fastest ways to observe the colossal power of volcanoes, since it rarely has dangerous eruptions and can be accessed by vehicles. The primary means of transportation across the island’s dirt roads is by truck, and…

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    Hey Jonah “ Get ready for school, now” “OMG I am” said Jonah” So the long day went on as Jonah, Chris, and Tanner got out of school they met at the border of Milvill in New York. The three friends would joke around in the dark, gloomy streets. After a while, they all tripped and landed on a box that said “Caution Danger do not open”. Tanner reached out to grab it. Chris said “NOOOO” “ It says Danger in Big Back Words!” Tanner didn't care he opened it and in the box was “A cute little Penguin…

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    was spoken by the pig’s head, the lord of the flies. The pig’s head was the embodiment of evil, a devil dwelling within the island. He talks to Simon, the boy who represents all that is pure and innocent on the island. The Lord of the Flies yells at Simon as Simon tries to go warn the other boys that the ‘beastie’ is simply a dead parachutist. This displeases the Lord of the Flies and tells him to go away. It is a reference as to how the Lord of the Flies and Simon cannot coexist on the island…

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    Lord of the Flies People always say that children are innocent and develop the evil as they grow up seeing the malice and spite in the world. In the book, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a plane gets shot down with a group of British boys who get stranded in an island when they are being taken out of England to another place for safety from WWII. They try to work together to be rescued but chaos in the island quickly develops. Human nature is essentially evil because of the natural…

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    scenario, imagine if this island was not just inhabited by boys, but by girls too. Also imagine other races being brought up into the mix. Would it have be so violent with most of the boys turning into savages? I think so. Even though the Lord of the Flies is a fictional depiction of a terrible event, I think real humans would have acted the same as William Golding described it to be. Even with different races or genders I still think it would’ve ended up that most kids would turn out to be…

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