The belief that savagery finds someone is clear as crystal in William Golding's Lord of the Flies. William Golding wrote Lord of the Flies after being in World War 2; perhaps this is the anecdote or the explanation of how someone can become a savage. ... First, Jack and his hunters kill a sow brutally and inhumanely. ... Now, he forgot where he has been and who he was and has brought himself to kill a living creature inhumanely. ... No matter if a person is a farm boy who attends church and signs in a choir, or a rich kid who gets whatever they desire, savagery and evil is in them. ...

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"Lord of the Flies," by William Golding, is a novel about a group of English children who land on an island due to a plane crash. ... Despite the fact that Jack wanted that position for power, Ralph reassures him and leaves him in charge of the group of hunters. ... At the point where Jack makes his own tribe everything starts to change. ... In his novel he has two characters totally different, one evil and one good, one who is civilized and the other savage. ... "Lord of the Flies" describes the defects of human nature, and how there is good and bad people in the world. ...

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In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, many different aspects of symbolism are presented well into the novel. ... The sow collapsed under them and they were heavy and fulfilled upon her." (123), that is where an example of where Jack loses himself into hunting and develops a hunger for it. ... Golding also uses the face paint used by Jack and his hunters as another symbol of savagery. ... At one point in the story, it seperates the civilized from the savage and intimidated those who were not of the tribe " "They"ll be painted! ... And that while others are able to control these nat...

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"Lord of the Flies" by William Golding, is a novel about a group of young British boys who are stranded on an island after their plane is shot down. ... The first key moment in the rising action that shows the growing tension between civilization and savagery is when Jack and his hunters let the fire die out, causing a ship to pass by without a smoke signal showing and allowing the group of boys to miss an opportunity of being rescued. ... Another key moment in the rising action where Golding reveals the growing tension between the civilized and the savage is when Jack decides to leave the ci...

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• Grade Level: High School