William Golding's Lord of the Flies is a disturbing fable about how ordinary kids change to savagery when they are marooned on a deserted island. Golding's tale is about schoolboys from a private school who's plane crashes and they become shipwrecked and they swim to a deserted island where they must fend for themselves. ... Hatchet is a story about a kid named Brian and his fight for survival on an island all alone, unlike the children on the Lord of the Flies, Brian learns from his mistakes and makes a better life for himself. ...

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The story takes place in the small rustic town of St. ... Soon after the start of the story Tom meets Huckleberry Fin. ... This is the climax of the story. ... Treasure Island I have written a report on one of Robert Louis Stevenson's most popular books, Treasure Island. ... After many adventures on Treasure Island he returns to England with the treasure. ...

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THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME is a short story about a hunter named Sanger Rainsford who is marooned on an island after accidentally falling off a yacht. ... After Rainford falls, he frantically swims to the nearest island in search of food and shelter. However this deserted island is not an ordinary island. ... Rainsford's hunting skills prove to be a necessity on the island. ... The story had some foreshadowing in it because Rainsford heard gunshots from an island when he was on the yacht and then discovered where they were coming from later on. ...

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THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME is a short story about a hunter named Sanger Rainsford who is marooned on an island after accidentally falling off a yacht. ... After Rainford falls, he frantically swims to the nearest island in search of food and shelter. However this deserted island is not an ordinary island. ... Rainsford's hunting skills prove to be a necessity on the island. ... The story had some foreshadowing in it because Rainsford heard gunshots from an island when he was on the yacht and then discovered where they were coming from later on. ...

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Basically, most stories at the time were chronicles of wonderful, magical events, not even attempting to resemble human life at all. ... Any other way to develop the story would have angered or possibly insulted the reader. Defoe has a presumed divine intervention place Robinson on the island for two reasons: One. ... He was sent to the island because he is destined, it is his fate. ... At first we are fooled, for all that happens seems realistic enough, but as soon as Robinson is marooned on the island, the illusion is fading. ...

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The book Snow Falling on Cedars is set on a small island in the Pacific Northwest, off of the Washington coast. ... Ishmael lost his arm in the war, and he is the editor of the San Piedro Review, which is the island's newspaper. ... His boat ran out of power while he was out fishing, leaving him marooned in the middle of a shipping channel during dense fog. ... The authorities begin to investigate the case the next morning when Carl's boat is found adrift near the island. ... The book ends as Ishmael is typing up the story of Carl's death on his typewriter. ...

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When you step off the elevator into the first room of the exhibit "Making it in America" (located at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum), you are greeted by large, distinguished portraits standing tall and proud. ... They are mounted on patterned walls that are colors such as deep maroon, mint green, and lemon yellow. ... You get the sense that this is their story, you are looking at their personal belongings and seeing their journey of making it in America. ...

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In the book The Lord of the Flies, William Golding relates the story of a group of English school boys stranded on an island. The island paradise quickly collapses into a chaotic, horrible scene. ... The story itself is a parody of the classic British children's story Coral Island by R. ... In this story, three boys, Ralph, Jack, and Peterkin, find themselves marooned on an island. ... Do you see the story? ...

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Summary Ralph hides in the jungle and thinks miserably about the chaos that has overrun the island. ... Golding's use of irony in the last chapter blurs the boundary between civilization and savagery and implies that the two are more closely connected than the story has illustrated. ... "Lord of the Flies" tells the story of a group of English schoolboys marooned on a tropical island after their plane is shot down during a war. ... Although Golding's story is confined to the microcosm of a group of boys, it resounds with implications far beyond the bounds of the small island and exp...

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On the day the story begins, he is enjoying a pipe outside his front door when an old man with a long cloak and a staff drops by. ... He goes back to his island in the middle of the lake to get his "precious," a golden ring that turns the wearer invisible--the very ring that Bilbo had found earlier Unable to find the ring, Gollum suspects the hobbit of stealing it and runs at him in a rage. ...

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