immaturity. The young boys do not recognize the unquenchable bloodlust that eats at Jack, they only see the passionate hunter providing for them. Their blindness towards Jack’s violent tendencies drives him to become more and more vicious during his pig hunts. When the hunters see a sow nursing her young, they charge her relentlessly, stabbing multiple times for pleasure. Here, struck down by the heat, the sow fell and the hunters hurled themselves at her. This dreadful eruption from an unknown world
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and having fun. That was not the only time I saw savagery. It happened when Jack and his hunters killed the sow. They didn’t just kill a pig for food, the vindictively and ruthlessly murdered a pig. The kill of the pig seemed as if to give them a high. The hunters were in awe of the fact that they could dominate another animal and that they held the pigs life in their hands. They chose if it got to live or die. It makes it hard to sleep. When I close my eyes at night I just see faces; faces
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antagonist or as a minor character. The character is meant to be Lucifer or the devil himself, which explains why he is the “mascot” of jack and his band of savage children, he is the ultimate evil. He changes throughout the novel by being a trophy, a prize pig that the hunters captured. Then a manipulative character, he convinces one boy to try to stop the savages and then the boy gets killed himself. Finally, back to the shadows, he goes as he never talks again. There are always two sides of the same coin
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Lord of the Flies Journals Record three quotes that demonstrate characterization, tone, diction/connotation, narration, simile, metaphor, personification, imagery, and/or plot development. Jot a note about the literary device and the significance. Make inferences. You may use the tool below to complete your entries, write entries on binder paper, or type entries in your own LitQuake Journal document. Chapters 1-2 Quotation Significance page 11: “I expect we’ll want to know all their names.” William
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Can all of these boys work together to accomplish tasks? The boys are stranded on the island after their planes crashed. The boys voted for chief, and Ralph won. Ralph became the leader and made rules on the island then everything goes bad in the middle of the book when Jack messes everything up. Jack doesn't agree with Ralph’s rules and how he wants to control everything. Even though people like to work by themselves, people need to learn how to work together. Ralph wants everyone to help and
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turns terrible. The boys start yelling at each other and jack always thinks he’s right but he isn’t the chief, ralph is the cheif . After a while it’s ralph against jack and the savages, one wants a fire to go continuously, the other wants to kill a pig. The group of boys who want the fire to go continuously are Ralph, PIggy, the twins, and Simon. They want the fire for the smoke so if a plane goes by they will see the smoke and fire and will come back to get them. They also want to make a civilization
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could do horrible things to another and we all have a beast within ourselves. In the book The Lord Of The Flies by William Golding, there are multiple examples of symbolism. Some examples include, the conch, Piggy's glasses, and the killing of the pig. The story starts odd during the time of world war two. Many british school boys are evacuating the country on a plane. It is shot down and crashes onto a deserted island where the boys form a small government making their leader: Ralph. The boys quickly
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People die every day, all over the world, but we must question how many of those deaths are the fault of others more powerful than them. In the stories Lord of the Flies, Macbeth and The Rocking Horse Winner, all three authors suggest that people who have power are often overcome with its lustful nature, through Jack, and The Twins, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth, Paul and Mother. In The Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses Jack and the Twins to demonstrate the effect of lust overcoming an individual
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many themes the author addresses in his novel. To emanate the theme of savagery, Golding uses symbolic objects, people, and actions. Accordingly, Golding utilizes Jack, Simon’s death, and the pig hunt to symbolize the savage nature within the boys on the island. In the novel, the author utilizes Jack’s pig hunts as an act of savagery among the few boys who participate. Golding writes, “The spear moved forward inch by inch and the terrified squealing became a high-pitched scream. Then Jack found
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kids and assigns Jack and his choir boys to be hunters because of the knife he has. He splits the group of kids into a search party containing Ralph, Jack, and Simon to search for life but find the island is uninhabited. On their way back they see a pig stuck in between vines and tell Jack to kill it but Jack
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