Chapter 9: “A View to a Death” ***Pick 2 to answer 1. What are the purpose and effect of Jack’s generosity with the meat he and the hunters obtained? What do you think his decision to give meat to even Ralph and Piggy is meant to show? 2. Why does Jack command the boys to dance and chant, and why is this an effective leadership tactic? What psychological effect does dancing and chanting have on the boys? Think back to the effect that putting on makeup had on them in Chapter 4. Jack commands the
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Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding is a novel about young boys left on an island all alone, with no adults, trying to survive. In the beginning, the boys are well behaved and civilized but become very violent and savage over time. Many critics feel that the main themes of the novel are there is no hope for humankind and that evil is an inborn trait of people. These themes are shown by the boys becoming uncivilized, disobeying rules, and their desire to kill. Golding expresses the themes
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BACKGROUND Three Little Pigs, Inc. (PIGS) is a provider of pork products. The Company produces approximately 4.1 million hogs per year; the majority of which are internally processed. However, a portion of the hogs produced are sold to outside third parties. PIGS does not have any commitments to sell live hogs to third parties and it does not hedge its live hogs through commodity futures contracts. PIGS has three major categories of hog inventory: (1) live hogs available for sale; (2) developing
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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
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What way does Golding present the boys build up to savagery? The main build up to savagery in the book could be the choir. The choir began as boys who accept the discipline of a choir school and acknowledge Jack's position as head choir boy, The boys become hunters, when Jack forces this role upon them. Then, as Jack releases his savage instincts by creating his mask, they become savages. They used to wear identical cloaks and caps, a uniform designed to promote their group identity and hide
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Theme Essay “Society holds everyone together.” In the book The Lord of the Flies, a fictional novel written by William Golding, it tells about the story of plan crashed british boys who must try and survive and fight off the savage instincts. The theme society holds everyone together is shown throughout the book. Society holding everyone together goes along with the idea of Civilization and savagery effects.. Basically the book is how savagery can affect people differently, also how
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The diction and imagery in Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” agitate the reader and create a sympathetic mood, which allows the reader to experience Rainsford’s perspective as a “huntee.” The reader is pulled into Rainsford’s perspective first with descriptions of his “desperate, hopeless flight [through the woods], that carrie[s] him on for several hours” (77). The words “desperate” and “hopeless” have strong connotations of suffering and despair, which evoke sympathy from the reader.
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‘Lord of the Flies’ alludes to Beelzebub, referenced as the devil in the Old Testament. This is important because it represents a presence of evil on the island. The pig head in which Beelzebub embodies talks to Simon about evil and how it is really within all of us. This talk is a allusion of Jesus’ conversation with the Devil on his forty day journey and shows the reader how Simon represents Jesus. This is also shown
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them. Henceforward, bullying is the main factor that makes the biguns more powerful. When Roger throws rocks at them and throws a big stone that kills Piggy. Also, at multiple times, the biguns decide to start to do a pig dance using some of the littlun to pretend like they are the pig. When some the elder boys start beating Robert with their spear, they all enjoy it and call it a game. This is a strong act of bullying. Later after this chant, the boys want to do it again. During a conversation between
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island Jack is one of the boys who quickly shows he wants control and to lead the boys but with him wanting this he quickly turns not so innocent. One of the things that Jack does that shows he is losing his innocence is when he goes after a female pig that just had piglets. What he does is “the sow gave a gasping squeal and staggered up with two spears sticking in her fat flank.” (8.147-148) By Jack doing this it goes against human nature and killing it also reduces their
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