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    Piggy In William Golding's Lord Of The Flies

    his nickname, he wouldn’t get made fun of as much. All the boys ask him what his name is when they show up and Ralph jumps in and announces, “He’s not Fatty, his real name’s Piggy” (21)! Another conflict that Piggy has to face is the fact that he can’t see without his “specks.” These glasses can be helpful, at times, when it comes to fire building and Piggy’s eyesight but they are fragile. We know this because they break easily when Jack takes them to create the second fire. This affects Piggy

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    Wonder

    ABC Book Report By: Damyia Thomas Wonder A- August is an ordinary boy on the inside, but by his deformed face most people can’t tell. He does normal things like eat ice cream, play the Xbox, and ride a bike, but his judgment is based on his face. B- Mr. Browne was August’s English teacher. He was a tall man with a yellow beard. Mr. Browne always gave the students a precept every month. C- Christopher was August’s best friend when they were seven years old but Christopher moved to Bridgeport

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    Effective Leaders In Lord Of The Flies

    In The Lord of the Flies a bunch of boys are stranded on an Island and try to survive. In order to survive you need to have someone to lead the group. In the book they had a hard time deciding who should be elected as leader. Ralph was elected but Jack thought he should’ve been. Ralph and Jack were two different people and lead differently than the other. So I questioned myself, what makes a leader effective? What makes a leader effective in his/her group? Well an effective is hard to come by,

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    Creative Writing: Civil Rights Movements

    Doves Chanting, all I could hear was chanting. I walked to my dorm window and peered out. Thousands of kids were walking on our campus. I knew what it was for. From the window, I could clearly see two guys holding up a banner. It read, “Against The War!” Most people were chanting but others were stomping, like an army or something…. odd. I yawned and turned around so my back was facing the protesters. Walking to my dresser, I pondered. Should I join them? I shook the thought as I remembered what

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    Lord Of The Flies Interview With Piggy

    able to agree on things. Who was your favorite person on the island? Piggy, he always stood by me and was on my side even if he didn’t agree 100% with what I was doing. For instance, when nearly everyone left to Jack’s tribe because he had food, Piggy was one of the few that stayed with me. Piggy was also just a really nice person, he never started a fight with anyone, even when Jack broke one of the lenses in his glasses he didn’t try to hurt

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    William Goulding's 'Lord Of The Flies'

    Lord of the Flies William Goulding SETTING: The setting is somewhere around the World War II era. There was a plane crash and all the boys that were on it ended up on an island without any other people. PLOT : World War II Fiction : A plane, full of boys, crashes on an Island. The boys were barely even so they split into groups of two. One group was called Biguns - that was the age group of 10-12 and then there was another group called Littluns - which was

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    Courage Comparison Essay

    situations of courage that I think were important in the three novels we read, beginning with the novel displaying the least courageous characters and finishing with the novel displaying the most courageous characters. A Midsummer Night’s Dream It is my opinion this novel did not have the type of characters I would think of as courageous. So, when I was trying to come up with examples of courage from this novel, I thought of Hermia, and the courage she showed when standing up to her parents about

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    Beast In Lord Of The Flies Essay

    The beast in Lord of the Flies is surprisingly enough the boys fear and their imagination. You can tell that this is true since the beast is non-existent and is really the boy's mind messing with them in their psychological horror of a society that became an abomination with nothing chaos and evil within the boy's minds. William Golding has served during WWII and has set his book in the WWII which can help us see how this might have changed the way that William Golding may have written the book Lord

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    Gunshot: A Fictional Narrative

    Gunshot. Wendy's eye shot open she race out of her tent. Jack, Aaron, and Wendy raced into the clearing. Jack grabbed the night watchman, Trent, by the collar and shook him. "What the hell happened!" Jack shouted. Trent still half asleep look up terrified and stammered, " I .... I...... I... kknockked ovvver yyyooourrrr ggguun and..." Jack screamed, " YOU DID WHAT!!!!" Aaron cringed, remembering his first encounter with Jack. He doubted any one wanted to be in Trent's shoes. Wendy placed a hand

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    Jack Caffery's Gone

    Jack Caffery; a name you’ll want to remember. Jack is a detective in the story GONE and thinks he knows what has happened, but he was wrong. In the beginning of the story there are two girls that are kidnapped, Rose Bradley and her daughter Martha. At first Jack and his team of detectives thought that it was just Rose that was in the car, but they went over the footage they had a gain and realized their was a little girl in the back as well. They person behind the kidnapping had a mask on but they

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