Ralph wants to build shelter, and keep a large fire burning on the mountain to alert ships of their predicament. ... A voice tells him that he will never escape because he exists within all men. Simon faints and when he wakes up, he goes to the mountain, where he sees "the beast" which is actually a dead parachutist and his parachute. Realizing that the monster never existed, Simon heads to the beach to tell the others what he has seen. ... A boy named Roger rolls a boulder down the mountain, which knocks Piggy off a cliff. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Since time is relative, and your life is like a mountain range, your death ,birth, and all the events in between are nothing more than peaks in a range of mountains, irremovable and able to be visited numerous times. ... A good example of this is Billy's habit of following every death withso it goes?. ... (Dawley 2) The way Billy describes the war as if it is still going also directly relates to his repetition ofso it goes? ... For example, when Billy is picked up by the wondering group of soldiers he is expected to be the first one to die and accepts that and even tells them to leave...

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• Grade Level: High School

Along the northern, eastern, and western borders of Burma are high mountains. ... The western mountains in between Burma and India forming the java arc consists of pinnacles as high as 12,000 feet, the Bay Of Bengal and the Andaman Sea at the southern boundary, on the south east Burma shares an extended border with Thailand. ... They crossed strong streams, climbed enormous mountains and finally made their way to and escaped to Imphal. ... After six more weeks of Fighting the Japanese, Imphal was rescued on the 16th of December 1944 the British moved to Moreh near Tamu but as the soldiers we...

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He tried to tell people that World War II was not a battle of heroic men fighting heroic men but instead young boys fighting other young boys. ... While we go throughout life chronologically, he slips in and out of periods of his life, in and out of time and lives in that moment. ... "A Trafamadorian sees all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. ... If the thousands of innocent civilians in Dresden knew their future that, they were going to be bombed; would they have just looked away from the problem and let it happen to them? If the millions of Jews knew that they were goin...

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• Grade Level: High School

This line shows that most people do not have a choice about going to war, so they are basically forced to murder. ... When the poet personifies the "mountains", which disapprove of him, he is talking about more powerful people above him who frown upon him. ... A robot is a mechanical device which acts on what people tell it to do without thinking. ... If he becomes "a cog" in this machine he will have a repetitive cycle, going round and round because of others and others go round because of him. ...

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• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School