In "Lord of the Flies", the opening chapter introduces us to the characters and the conflict and poses a question: If people were dropped on a distant island that offered plenty of food and no dangerous conditions, would the experience be a good one or a bad one? ... Although a plane that was under attack during an atomic war dropped them, Ralph thinks he is in a paradise. ... As the story progresses, we find that the natural state of man is not a good one. ... While she was pregnant, she visited a Savage Reservation, hurt herself in a fall, and got lost, missing her return trip to London. .....

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• Grade Level: High School

Frankenstein begins his story in Geneva, at home with his family, during chapter three, his mother dies of scarlet fever after attending to Elizabeth, whom she contracts it from. ... The monster is brought to life in Chapter five, "on a dreary November night, again this adds to the stereotypical image of the horror genre. ... During chapter 24, Walton takes over telling the story, and again Shelley uses epistolary form for him to do this, as Walton is again writing to his sister. ... The monster would collect food for the family and was repaid by them with "Paradise Lost, a volume of Plutarch&...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate