Should Ponyboy Curtis stay with his brother and the gang risking his life, or go to a safe system that wouldn’t promote violence and get him possibly hurt. If Ponyboy is faced with a problem and gets in trouble, he could possibly go to court and go to a boys home and not have his brothers in his life anymore. Ponyboy should go to the system so he won’t be in danger and get very injured. Darry puts Ponyboy in much danger and puts him at very big risks of getting seriously hurt. “Let me fight, Darry…”“Well”-Darry
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Is Bilbo a leader whenever Gandalf is away? The dwarves would never have made it to the Lonely Mountain without Bilbo. Bilbo is the one who killed the spiders and freed the dwarves from their webs. He is the one who led their escape from the Elven palace. The hobbit shows creativity and confidence throughout the journey. Both of those are characteristics of a leader. Bilbo is definitely a leader when Gandalf is away. Bilbo killed the spiders and freed the dwarves from their webs. The dwarves would
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In the newspaper article “Why Boys Become Vicious”, William Golding discusses the complexity of cruelty and the situations and cases in which cruelty can flourish. First, Golding begins to point out that there’s a simplicity that can be found in great moral leaders of Western civilization and then continues by comparing some evil people of the twentieth century to them, while pointing out that there was nothing simple about people like Hitler who committed terrible deeds. He then goes on to describe
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Evil is something that exist within everyone. Weather it's shown as an open book or enclosed inside, the darkness will always be a shadow, behind the innocence of human hearts. In the book, Lord of the Flies, William Golding shows that humans are nefarious through his story of boys being stranded on an inhabited island and getting lost into the darkness as the civilization they created falls apart. While many believe that humans are kind, in reality, they are ill-natured and malicious. Through
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An issue going around for many many years lately has been the abuse of power. It is not always abusing power, it is sometimes abusing rights. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, the abuse of power and rights was represented by only a few characters and was portrayed all over the place. Ralph and Jack were the two main characters, Ralph the protagonist and Jack the antagonist, and they both abused their power by controlling the actions of the groups they controlled. Golding illustrates that
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Evil Will Always Triumph Over Good Parth Mahajan In the book Lord of the Flies, William Golding shows that evil will always triumph over good. The Book Lord of the flies is based on a group of British schoolboys who had been evacuated from Britain because of the nuclear war that had been going on. But as the book progresses the rules and order are slowly broken, until they are all forgotten. You can see the boys turning into savages when they had killed Simon and then later Piggy. The first murder
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For most people, living on an abandoned island would not be something they would want or like to do. In the book, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Sam and Eric were influenced to change by the other boys and the actions that surrounded them. At the beginning of the book, Sam and Eric were loyal to Ralph, but in the end they were manipulated by Jack. Being on the island started to make them lose their civil nature and act as if they were older. They were also treated as if they were one person
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about being human. However being unique is not, our own unique individual are the key problem for us as a society to have changed. Being different makes it harder and impossible for one to change individual’s mind, none the less a whole society. The Lord of The Flies, a novel by William Golding tells a story about young schoolboys trapped on an island. The boys lived in paradise until their true human nature takes over turning them into savages. “The Lottery,” a short story by Shirley Jackson is about
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The novel, “A Long Way Gone”, is filled with cultural stories and myths. The tale of the “Wild Pigs” and the “Bra Spider” are told in this novel. The tale of the “Wild Pigs” is about how a man could transform into a pig. He would lead wild pigs into a clear opening, where they could not escape. He would eat a plant, and transform into a human again, killing the wild pigs afterwards. The other pigs soon learned about what this man was doing and destroyed all of the plants. When the man lead them into
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Going away from your home might require perseverance. In Call of the Wild, Buck is taken away from his home to live a harmful, and torturing lifestyle and will need to persevere. On the other hand, my mom, like most people, moved away from her home looking for a new start. Even though their situations differ, Buck and my mom, both had to start new lives which required perseverance. Anyone, even animals can encounter hard times, and have to evolve in order to persevere. For example, when Buck was
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