The boys then set a signal fire in the central mountain of the island so passing boats will see. ... The next day they find pig droppings and go on a hunt for the pig. ... Jack, Simon, and Ralph climb up one of the mountains and sees a dead parachuter and mistake him f! ... When they get back to the camp they tell the group and Jack leaves and starts his own tribe where he is chief. ... Ralph goes over to Jack's tribe and tries to make him see reason, but Jack just tells his guards to grab tie up the two remaining members of Ralph's group. ...

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They were not careful, however, and soon the fire is engulfing half the forest near the mountain. ... He tells the group that the Beast is real; they have seen it. ... Simon realizes what the beast is and he rushes down the mountain to alert the other boys that the beast is a man. ... I"m not going to play any longer. ... I'm the reason why it's no go? ...

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The twins were on fire duty, and they found him on the mountain rocks. ... If the beast is not at castle rock, then we are going to check the mountain and re-light the fire. ... Jack started goofing off, and I had to break up this happiness and we started our journey to the mountain Chapter 7: As we headed up to the mountain, I realized how dirty and scraggly we all looked. ... The beast warned him not to tell anyone the truth, otherwise he will be killed. Chapter 9: Piggy and I decided to go to the pig roast to see what was going on. ...

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He gathered everyone up to tell them that there were no adults on the island. ... Ralph and Jack had to calm everyone down and tell the group the beast was from the boys dreams. ... So a group of hunters are put in charge to keep it lit and they end up lighting a bunch of trees on fire. in the craziness of the trees catching fire Piggy tells them that the boy who was talking about the snake is missing, and they just go one as if nothing is wrong. ... Ralph confronts jack and tells him that him and his hunters are using hunting as a way to get out of all the real work. ... Ralph was re...

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We"ll make sure when we go hunting" (p 37). ... The rest of the boys don't go for that, and because of this, Jack informs the group, "I"m not going to be a part of Ralph's lot - I"m going off by myself. ... The Lord of the Flies tells him "I"m the Beast. ... When he awakens, he stumbles up the mountain and discovers the dead parachutist. ... Just as he is trying to speak, Roger shoves a massive rock down the mountain slope, and it crushes Piggy. ...

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"We can't keep one fire going. ... "I'm going off by myself. ... "The conch doesn't count on top of the mountain so [Piggy] shut up- (42). ... The mask is very symbolic and meaningful, directly as the quote itself tells it. ... What's grownups going to think? ...

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One year later, when he was fourteen, Jack left school because he couldn't afford to go to high school. ... He would tell stories for food. ... Other symbols commonly used by London are the deep dark forests, high forbidding mountains, the most barren snowfields, extreme cold, and faithful smart dogs. The lonely frozen lakes, mountains, and snowfields symbolize mystery, and nothingness. ...

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While on this island, these boys go through stages from civilized school boys to barbaric savages. ... For example, the boys look at the conch, which represents law and order, differently as the story goes on. ... All his rules and orders go completely against law and order such as tying Wilfred up and trying to hunt and kill Ralph. ... Simon went to the top of the mountain and saw that there was no beast. He came back down to inform the boys of this and tried to tell them that the beast was among them. ...

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Golding himself tells us that the horrors of the Second World War were crucial in producing the moral landscape of the novel. ... If anything were to go wrong, as it tragically did, it could only come from within; the only enemy of man was himself. ... He goes into the jungle to pray, to build a church. ... Like Moses, he comes down from the mountain bearing the truth which in Simon's case is that the beast is Man himself, the boys' (and man's) own natures. ...

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The Lord of the Flies tells a tale of schoolboys, stranded on an island during the time of war. The youngest of them is of the age of six and the eldest of them is of twelve, and this is a story of how they struggle to keep order, to make days go by, to adjust and adapt, and to feed themselves. ... He is the one who continuously fights for the fire to be kept going until the very end, in hope of rescue. ... It is a thought process that infinitely goes on in the back of our minds while we are the exact moment perhaps speaking to someone else, doing something else consciously. ... These misunder...

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Jack then began to be interested in the plight of the underprivileged and working classes, and so he joined a group of militant workers, who were going to Washington to protest the wretched working conditions in the country, caused by the Depression of 1894. ... While his ranch was still under construction he decided to build a ship of his own and go sailing around the world exploring, writing, adventuring, and just enjoy the life that he craved and that would give him still more material to write about. ... After a few weeks had passed Jack forced himself to go back to writing. ...

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