He tells them that humans put the animals to work, but take away all the credit and give little or nothing to the animals. ... A ship passes, and the hunters do not do their job of keeping the fire lit on the mountain lit properly and the boys miss their chance of being rescued. ... Many of the boys separate from Ralph and go with Jack. ... Due to his hallucination and fainting, Simon wakes up and goes to the mountain where he discovers a dead parachutist. Realizing there is no beast, Simon goes to tell the others of his discovery. ...

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Ralph also tells everybody about his plan to create fire to attract nearby people to the island. ... So we must make smoke on top of the mountain. ... As the story goes on, Jack becomes more and more fixated on killing pigs. ... Ralph calls an assembly and suggests that the boys should die before they let the fire go out. ... After Ralph tells everyone else that they should die before the fire goes out, he has trouble remembering it. ...

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So we must make smoke on top of the mountain. ... He understands what is going on, but lacks the linguistic prowess to state it. ... I'm the reason why it's no go? ... It was true part of him did know, and he felt that he had to tell the others about his realization. He was killed while trying to tell them. ...

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So we must make smoke on top of the mountain. ... How can we ever be rescued except by luck, if we don't keep a fire going? ... If the fire were to go out, the leadership skills and civil order on the island would all be lost. ... After allowing the fire to go out, Jack tells Ralph,"The fire's only been out an hour or two. ... Jack was only asked to do one task, to make sure the fire did not go out. ...

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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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Accused of cowardice by Jack, Ralph is forced to agree to climb the mountain at night, insisting the excursion will be of no benefit. ... At the base of the mountain, Ralph again attempts to postpone the climb but Jack repeats his accusation and starts up alone. ... Scurrying down the mountain, Jack reports that there is indeed a beast. After Ralph and Roger witness the strange creature, the three race down the mountain to bring the news to the others. ... Later, Simon encounters the parachutist and sets off to tell the others what he has learned. ...

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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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So we must make a smoke on top of the mountain. ... One may become fearful when they do not know what is going to happen in the future. ... As Ralph and Piggy landed on the island, both did not know what was going on. ... As one can tell, Piggy's dialogue exposed that he was panicked because he did not know what to expect after arriving on the island. ... It is up to them to decide which characteristic is going to outshine the rest. ...

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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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• Grade Level: High School