...any kind of image. Fear is described by Webster's Dictionary of English Mirriam- because ?? to upset or worried. "The feeling was mutual for all the island boys experience many different ways. Originally the boys have obviously fear alone, and then we know the beast, or as littluns mean, as fear ?? Beast "brought. While this fear continued throughout the novel, we have come into contact with the other three events of fear. The first one is the fear of the consequences of civilization, only when the child is regarded as a young boy of civilization, the first chapter is displayed. The last two are different in nature, and these fears losing power, fear of rejection, fear of the minority. All these different fear, then traced back to the characters, such as Goldin was expertly planned, and will affect people's attitudes and behavior....
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...'LORD OF THE FLIES' by William Golding “Revision notes can never replace knowing the books thoroughly” J.W.Evans These notes should be used as pointers to the directions that your thoughts might take. They are not meant to replace your reading of the novel, you must still do that yourself.. CHARACTERISATION Never forget that we are talking about a group of boys whose maximum age is twelve. RALPH Does he represent all that is good in people? Tall, fair-skinned, blond hair, very athletic, natural leader although not that good a leader as many of his decisions are questionable, which ones?. He is middle-class, father a naval officer. Elected leader but not forceful enough to maintain position. Eventually he loses support and is reduced to the status of an outcast who must flee for his life. Ralph is an idealist and a dreamer. He needs Piggy to think for him. He finds the Conch but Piggy tells him how to use it. At the end of the book, he is a disillusioned realist who now sees his world and its inhabitants for what they are. JACK MERRIDEW Does he represent the worst in people? He is thin, tall, with red hair, light blue eyes and freckles. Leader of the choir, he becomes the leader of the hunters. Increasingly in conflict with Ralph and more particularly, Piggy, he breaks away, forms his own tribe and splits the group. He manages to get the support to do this by offering the boys the attraction of the hunting life and then by terrorising them. In the...
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...------------------------------------------------- Chapter 1 Summary A fair-haired boy lowers himself down some rocks toward a lagoon on a beach. At the lagoon, he encounters another boy, who is chubby, intellectual, and wears thick glasses. The fair-haired boy introduces himself as Ralph and the chubby one introduces himself as Piggy. Through their conversation, we learn that in the midst of a war, a transport plane carrying a group of English boys was shot down over the ocean. It crashed in thick jungle on a deserted island. Scattered by the wreck, the surviving boys lost each other and cannot find the pilot. Ralph and Piggy look around the beach, wondering what has become of the other boys from the plane. They discover a large pink and cream-colored conch shell, which Piggy realizes could be used as a kind of makeshift trumpet. He convinces Ralph to blow through the shell to find the other boys. Summoned by the blast of sound from the shell, boys start to straggle onto the beach. The oldest among them are around twelve; the youngest are around six. Among the group is a boys’ choir, dressed in black gowns and led by an older boy named Jack. They march to the beach in two parallel lines, and Jack snaps at them to stand at attention. The boys taunt Piggy and mock his appearance and nickname. The boys decide to elect a leader. The choirboys vote for Jack, but all the other boys vote for Ralph. Ralph wins the vote, although Jack clearly wants the position. To placate Jack, Ralph...
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...island without adults after the plane crashes they try to govern themselves maintain order and stability but they ultimately fail descending into violence and brutality. At the beginning of the book Ralph and piggy meet on a desert island in the Pacific they were on a plane with a group of boys who were being evacuated from England because of a war but the plane was attacked and crashed on the island. while they were in the air they heard that in an atomic bomb exploded in England so we know that a nuclear war is taking place. they find a conch shell and ralph blows into it like a trumpet the sound call all the other boys who were on the plane out of the jungle no dogs have survived the crash just between the ages of 6 and 12 rounds is the oldest the biggest boy on the island and he's 12 eventually all choir comes out of the jungle but by a boy named Jack the boys decide to go for a chief and they'll take Ralph he's beautiful and seems like a natural leader especially since he called the cops jack is not happy about being voted down though in fact a million did Ralph like someone wants to be friends so he says Jackson charge of the choir in the choir will be hunters route takes on a jack up to the top of the mountain and they find out that they're on an island Bell to find out there pigs on the island they can hunt for the first one I see got away Ralph called another assembly with the cop told everyone that they're on an island in there alone no one knows where they are but its...
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...The three symbols I used for my book cover is Broken Glasses, Fire, and the Beast. On the book cover, you can see a fire made smoking up the sky. In the smoke from the fire, you can see two red eyes. These two red eyes are the beast that the characters in Lord of the Flies imagined. Next to the fire is broken glasses (left). These three symbols show significant symbolism through the book. The first symbol I will bring up from the four is the broken glasses. The broken glasses belonged to Piggy. The glasses were used to help create the fire for the boys. Piggy's glasses glasses are a symbol of the intellectual and ordered side of humanity. They are a symbol of this because the glasses are the only thing left the boys have that is a part of modern civilization. When the boys don't know how to make a fire, they have to rely on Piggy's glasses. The breaking of the glasses represents the breaking of the last thing the boys had that was close to humanity. Without the glasses, Piggy says "the Island is a sea of meaningless color". This was Piggy's weakness because without his glasses, he could not see anything and didn't know what to do anymore. After Piggy's glasses broke, the boys on the island began to act more like savages and animals which was most of the reason why Piggy ended up dying. The next symbol is the fire. The fire is a symbol of hope and at the same time destruction. The boys decide to make a fire to try to signal navy ships and get rescued. Ralph says "We've got to...
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...Whenever you hear "The Jungle" most think of a tropical forest full of thick, brightly colored plants and trees containing various types of animals. However, the book The Jungle is a novel written by the American journalist and muckraker Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to expose the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the meatpacking industry of Chicago. So how do the two relate? The novel's title symbolizes the competitive nature of capitalism. The life of living in Packingtown is like living in a jungle, in which the strong prey on the weak and all living things are engaged in a violent, brutal fight for survival. In the book, you only see the use of the word "jungle" once. This being when Jurgis has been drinking and decides to sleep with a prostitute. The novel also seems to compare Jurgis' sexual desire to that of a beast in the jungle. Therefore associating jungles with uncontrolled desires. This being said, the awful conditions of the workers in Packingtown are the result of the uncontrollable human desire for money. The Jungle is about bringing to light human greed and the social damage it does. The images of "beasts" that live in the jungle also depicts violence and brutality – another huge theme of Sinclair's analysis of life in Packingtown. Sinclair describes capitalism as destructive because he shows it...
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...phone tightly in hopes that someone retrieved his distress signal from deep within the Kakadu Jungle. Sweat drizzled down his forehead as he plunged through the thick terrain of evergreen extending bushes. Licking his lips occasionally to take in the last of his bodily fluids. His face was bright red with signs of an allergic reaction that had taken place due to the bug bites he was getting. The sounds of the jungle terrified him, yet he kept walking with pure faith that he would make it. His Safari Camo Jungle Vest was unfortunately no use to his situation. What once held flare sticks and safety aid items was now torn to shreds by a vicious creature whom claws reached the lengths of a grown man’s pointer finger. Rodger barely escaped the...
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...In both Lord of the Flies by William Golding and I’m the King of the Castle by Susan Hill, the authors have effectively used settings and locations in their novels. This is a great impact, as most of the settings and locations have a meaning, representing something to do with the plot. The writers have used certain locations in a way that affects the understanding and thoughts of the reader, ranging from calm, peaceful settings, to terrifyingly dark ones. Each novel has different high and lows to their story, and locations are effectively used to express this. In Lord of the Flies, the Island is the main location, and this is used as a symbol of isolation. The Island is in the middle of the sea, and the location is unknown. The boys are separated from the outside, and are isolated from society and rules, leading to no order. William Golding is trying to create a claustrophobic fear in the readers, one of the main emotional states shown in the book while the boys are on the island. The Island is the opening location of the novel, which is deliberately violent, as this is the setting of “the scar.” This instantly portrays the negative effect the boys will have on the environment of the Island. The influence this has by being at the very start of the book on the reader’s interpretation is that it will give a feel to the reader about how the plot will twist throughout the book. In I’m the King of the Castle the main location is Warings. Warings is a ‘gloomy,’ ‘entirely graceless’...
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...In the midst of a raging war, a plane evacuating a group of schoolboys from Britain is shot down over a deserted tropical island. Two of the boys, Ralph and Piggy, discover a conch shell on the beach, and Piggy realizes it could be used as a horn to summon the other boys. Once assembled, the boys set about electing a leader and devising a way to be rescued. They choose Ralph as their leader, and Ralph appoints another boy, Jack, to be in charge of the boys who will hunt food for the entire group. Ralph, Jack, and another boy, Simon, set off on an expedition to explore the island. When they return, Ralph declares that they must light a signal fire to attract the attention of passing ships. The boys succeed in igniting some dead wood by focusing sunlight through the lenses of Piggy’s eyeglasses. However, the boys pay more attention to playing than to monitoring the fire, and the flames quickly engulf the forest. A large swath of dead wood burns out of control, and one of the youngest boys in the group disappears, presumably having burned to death. At first, the boys enjoy their life without grown-ups and spend much of their time splashing in the water and playing games. Ralph, however, complains that they should be maintaining the signal fire and building huts for shelter. The hunters fail in their attempt to catch a wild pig, but their leader, Jack, becomes increasingly preoccupied with the act of hunting. When a ship passes by on the horizon one day, Ralph and Piggy notice...
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...was just told about the Congo. The Underdown family was basically in charge of the mission, and told the Prices, what to expect in the Congo, Leah’s feelings seemed to add up intensely when the Underdown family was mentioning every good and bad thing in the Congo. It was almost surreal to me that what the Underdown family had said the Congo would be like, it was, it was definitely full of jungle flowers, and wild beasts. Adah, Leah’s twin even encountered a wild beast, almost....
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...with the story of Adam and Eve, another character that may play a role in this story would be Jack. Physically, Ralph was one of the first to approach the Beast. When Jack, Simon, and Ralph are returning from the mountain they find a piglet tied up. Yes, the piglet was small and “innocent” but in this Novel, a pig is the second form of the Beast. It wasn't really the killing of the pig that started the darkness, it was when this piglet had appeared. Jack was always all about what he was capable of, so when he “chickened out” of killing the pig, it made him aspire to kill the next and after, he had nothing holding him back from killing anything else. The piglet was like Eve’s apple, after taking a look at it and seeing how great it looks...
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...because some of the boys can’t control their animalistic qualities. The boys waddle between the human instinct of savagery and the civilized ways of order, which they’re taught from home. Despite the fact that they try to establish order they become more and more drawn towards savagery throughout the book. The sow’s head and the conch shell are both symbols of power, but in different ways. After Jack and his hunters kill the sow, Roger determinedly drives his spear up the sow’s anus. This is described barbarically. It wasn’t necessary for Roger to spear the sow’s anus, but in the savage frenzy he was in, he couldn’t resist the feeling of power. He was in control over the animal. They leave the sow’s head on a sharpened stick in the jungle as an offering to the...
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...Did you know the Bandar-logs from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is similar to bullies? The Bandar-log is similar to bullies by how they behave, speak, and treat others. Both, Bandar-log and bullies, do not have any rules in their own world. They both do not take everything seriously and they always choose to play around. The Bandar-log and bullies always think they are above everyone else. In my opinion, it is obvious that the Bandar-logs and bullies are alike. In their world, they do not have any rules at all. In Kaa’s Hunting, Bagheera said,referring to the Bandar-logs, "Thou hast been with the Monkey People--the gray apes--the people without a law--the eaters of everything” (Kipling 30-31). Bullies can be truly similar because they have no rules and they can bully anyone they desire to. You see, The Monkey people and bullies are the same because the Bandar-logs would never fight unless it is one hundred to one and bullies would only would torture one kid, but if there are more than one kid the bully would not do anything. Rules do not apply for bullies and the monkey people, at least that is what they think....
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...Wyatt Richards Amanda Little Descent Into Savagery William Golding Lord of the Flies In order to demonstrate the fragility of one civilized nature, William Golding uses symbolism in Lord of The Flies, to aid the reader with identifying the boys’ transition from civilized to savage, as result of the boys being liberated from the law and order of their civilized upbringing, once they become stranded in the wild of the tropics. Specifically, to illustrate this idea , multiple (objects/characters) are used to represent the boy’s descent into savagery including the Beast,the Scar and the conch. The conch is a powerful symbol of civilization and unity on the island. Readers can track the boys' descent into savagery from civilized school boys’...
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...extent, the conch is a vessel of political legitimacy and democratic power. Another important symbol in this novel is the fire. As the fire can help these boys get rescued and go back to the society, it is the connection between the savagery and civilization. As the story progresses, the savagery becomes more apparent when Jack became obsessed with the thought of killing the pigs and painted his face to camouflage in the jungle. As Jack was a powerful and strong boy, his actions influenced other boys, although Ralph was very civilly oriented, he still managed to get involved in the thrill of the hunt when boys were chasing after a pig. This scene reflects that no matter how strong human beings’ instinct toward civilization has an underlying nature of savagery, which could be seen when they behind some masks. Beside of hunting pigs, the beast on the island that frightens all the boys stands for the primal instinct of savagery that exists within human being. At the end of the novel, only Simon found out that the beast existed within each of them, the actual beast was themselves, was...
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