The uninhabited jungle island that the boys crash - land on forms them into very inhumane creatures. ... Conversely, while Jack does agree that maintaining a fire will aid their cause in being rescued, he contradicts this point of view by setting off in the jungle to hunt and the idea of killing a pig consumes him. ... As Ralph runs for his life through the jungle, he discovers that a ship has found the boys and that a sailor waits for them on the shore. ...

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By the two of them talking I found out that they were in a war and a plane that was carrying a group of English boys was shot down and crashed in the jungle. ... Ralph and the other two boys explore the whole jungle from end to end and didn't find anything, Ralph says it's like they discovered their own land. ... Then he goes in deeper and sits down and looks at how beautiful the jungle is around him. ...

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Lord of the Flies In the novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding demonstrates the adolescent behaviour of a group of boys in an environment without adults. The boys' response to being trapped on a deserted island is predictable, however with each circumstance a new attitude emerges from each o...

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In the midst of a war, a transport plane carrying a group of English boys is shot down over the ocean. It crashes in a thick jungle on a deserted island. Scattered by the wreck, the surviving boys lose each other. The pilot is nowhere to be found. Wondering where everyone is, Ralph, one of the older...

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SIMON Lost in this deserted island. I don't even know how long it's been since our plane crashed out at sea. Though it's seems a little strange now, I would expect the longer I've been away from any known civalization, the more I would fret on going home. Being lost out he...

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Both must find their own food but, in Lord of the Flies the boys hunt in the jungle with spears for pigs and in survivor Rich spears fish by the reef. ... Jack, with "the hunters", travels into the jungle armed with his spear to kill pigs for food and for the mere pleasure. ...

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They begin to come from the jungle (including the littl'uns, which are the youngest kids at about 6 or 7 years old), among these boys is Jack Merridew, head of the choir. ... The boys are distracted by a figure emerging from the jungle. ...

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It was 48 years ago when a man named William Golding, put his pen to his paper and composed a literary masterpiece called, Lord of the Flies. The book brings together every boy's fantasy of being isolated on a deserted island and the harsh reality of human nature. With no authority, evil, hatred and...

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Mankind's loss of innocence According to Golding, author of Lord of the Flies, the actions of mankind are unpredictable when placed in a society without structure. In this novel, a group of boys are stranded on a deserted tropical island after an airplane crash. While on this island, these ...

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The Lord of the Flies is an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature. Golding himself tells us that the horrors of the Second World War were crucial in producing the moral landscape of the novel. (Reilly140-141) Morally wounded by the extreme barbarity and sadism t...

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In William Golding's "Lord of The Flies" the author gives a dark and humbling description of human nature. He demonstrates this by showing the degeneration of a group of boys stranded on a deserted island. As the rules and symbols of power and authority are stripped from the group they revert to s...

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Distopian Novels Compared The utopian style of living can be seen, to many, as the ideal way of life. It is a way of living in which everything is supposed to be perfect, a society with ideal economic and social conditions. The novels "Brave New World", "Fahrenheit 451" and "Lord of the Flies...

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Chapter 1: Today was the weirdest day of my life. I just finished making my way through a jungle after I was in an airplane that was shot and crashed. It was storming, but now it's a little nicer outside, and me and my buddy Piggy were just discussing the fact that we are all children here on t...

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Throughout the novel "Lord Of the Flies," author William Golding incorporates characters, objects, and events which represent concepts or ideas pertaining to the flaws of mankind. These things are known as allegories, because they are symbols that stand for the truths about human life. Golding uses ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate