Lord of the Flies In the midst of a raging war, a plane evacuating a group of English boys from Britain is shot down over a deserted tropical island. ... Jack and Ralph, who are increasingly at odds, travel up the mountain. ... Jack angrily runs away down the beach, inviting all the hunters to join him. ... The voice, which he imagines to belong to the Lord of the Flies says that Simon will never escape him, for he exists within all men. Simon faints; when he wakes up, he travels to the mountain, where he sees the dead parachutist. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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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• Grade Level: High School

As Jack is first seen it seems that he is a dominant leader of the choir and orders them in a militaristic way, "the boy who controlled them." ... Due to his militaristic way he now refers to his choir as "hunters" this seems quite ironic where a choir is a group that sings in a church and takes the name of the Lord. Now they have been turned into hunters that kill animals with their hands and later eat them. ... Ralph and Piggy are the only ones who stay behind; "Ralph was left with no one but Piggy." ... Where? ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Wondering where everyone is, Ralph, one of the older boys, blows into a conch shell to let the other boys know where he is. ... The choir boys are appointed hunters; Jack, the leader of the choir, is made leader of hunters. ... The hunters kill a pig and everyone eats it. ... Jack interrupts Piggy who seconds Ralphs claims, disrrupting the meeting; then Jack runs away, many of the other boys following him. ... When they get back to the camp they tell the group and Jack leaves and starts his own tribe where he is chief. ...

• Word Count: 855
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School