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    Khaled Hosseini’s historical fiction novel, “The Kite Runner,” takes place in Afghanistan. Amir, a 12-year-old boy, wants to win a local kite tournament. In the end, he won the kite competition, but he witnesses the rape of his servant and friend Hassan. Amir then becomes guilt-stricken and wants Hassan to get out of his life. Then, once Amir grows up, he returns to Afghanistan on the path to redemption to get rid of his guilt and overcome his deception. One theme the story suggests is that…

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    “Through the Tunnel” In Doris Lessing’s short story, “Through the Tunnel”, the author teaches the reader about setting goals and achieving them. “Through the Tunnel” tells the story of a young English boy named Jerry who’s mother lets him go and allows him to explore the bay. While on the bay, he meets a group of boys who he ends up swimming with. While swimming with the boys, Jerry discovers that the boys are swimming through a tunnel underwater. Eventually, the boys go off somewhere else…

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    William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a novel in which the inherent desire for ultimate power is highlighted by the clashing personas of the main characters. The fact that the boys are stranded on an island with no adults, thus leading to anarchy and disorder, exacerbates primitive desires present within the boys. An analysis of the protagonist Ralph, Piggy, and the antagonist Jack will ultimately prove Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality, thus shedding light upon the notion…

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    Good versus Evil how will it turn out in the end? In the story in the “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, there are boys that are stranded on an island. The boys try to stay as a whole group so the boys set some rules and chose a leader. The boys chose Ralph to be the leader and he tries his best, but then another kid named Jack started his own group. Then everyone went to his group except Ralph and a few others. Then it ended as just Ralph against Jack and his group. Based of Good and Evil…

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    In Doris Lessing’s short story, “Through the Tunnel”, the Lessing teaches the reader about setting and achieving them. “Through the Tunnel” tells the story of a young English boy named Jerry whose mother allows him to go explore the bay. He meets a group of local boys and ends up swimming them. While swimming with the boys, Jerry discovers that the boys are swimming through an underwater tunnel. Eventually, the boys go off somewhere else and leave Jerry alone. Upset and lonely, Jerry swims…

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    William Golding uses the theme that humans are naturally bad at heart, in the book Lord of the Flies to highlight that without the order and respect we choose to live our daily lives with our human nature will ultimately take us into chaos and savagery. Morals are what we choose live by, this is what keeps us in line. Morals do not appear overnight. Overtime they are ingrained throughout our childhood. Giving us a sense of right and wrong. Humans are not born with the idea of looking out for the…

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    Communication Final Assignment Chapter Summaries Summary of Chapter 1 Keywords- Cynical, enormous, tyrannies, gallons, trotter, astray. Main idea- Animals are dissatisfied by the way of human beings. Sub-idea- Man inflict atrocities. Summary- after Mr. Jones fell asleep, all of the animals decided to gather at the desire of Old Major a 12 year old Pig. The old major started his speech by thanking everyone for coming, he awakened them to the atrocities inflicted by the human beings on the…

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    George R.R. Martin once said “There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs”. A Savage reflects fierce, violent, and animal like nature. Lord of the Flies, the novel by William Golding, illustrates that blood thirst, loss of sympathy and release from civilization lead to savagery. One of the first steps to savagery is the craving to kill a creature, the enjoyment they get from spilling another’s blood. “I was going to…

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    would you do? When a group of boys was put in this position in The Lord of the Flies they ended up losing their morals and personal beliefs and ended up becoming savages. In the novel The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, William Golding uses the conch to represent how the boys consciously and unconsciously, give the conch power, and bring a sense of authority and civilization. In the novel The Lord of the Flies, William Golding shows how when Ralph and Piggy found the conch they…

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    considered collectively; the human race. Lord of the Flies starts when a plane crashes on to an island, only leaving about 25 English boys, ranging from ages five to twelve. The boys struggle to form a civilization. The evil that is naturally in mankind stops them from forming a peaceful society, many things go wrong because of disagreements between the boys. The evil present in mankind is one of the main themes in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. The first reason why the theme is the…

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