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    <title>Lord of the Flies Group at eNotes</title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Early in the novel, Lord of the Flies, a differentiation is made between...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Early in the novel, Lord of the Flies, a differentiation is made between the really small children on the island, who are around the age of six, and the bigger children like Jack, Piggy, Ralph and Simon, who range between the ages of twelve and sixteen.
There are two very telling passages later in the novel where "little boy" is used to press home a point. And that point is that they are all but little boys, that we humans are all but little...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why does Golding describe the savages as "little boys on the beach" and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why does Golding describe the savages as "little boys on the beach" and Jack in particular as a "Little Boy"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:15:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[At the Bronx Zoo in New York City, there is an exhibit that is nothing...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[At the Bronx Zoo in New York City, there is an exhibit that is nothing more than a vertical mirror with a plaque over it. The plaque says, "The Most Dangerous Animal in the World." The point of the exhibit is lost on very few visitors to the zoo.
I Golding's "Lord of the Flies," the scary beast is nothing more than a dead human. And the point of this should be lost on no one who reads the book, for it is the point of the book: we are the most...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 16:13:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Golding tells us "the beast was harmless and horrible to simon"...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Golding tells us "the beast was harmless and horrible to simon" Considering that the sign on the mountain is a figure of a man's enemy to man]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:22:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[For which characters do you feel most sympathatic and least sympathatic...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/lord-of-the-flies/q-and-a/which-characters-do-you-feel-most-sympathatic-113627</link>
        <description><![CDATA[For which characters do you feel most sympathatic and least sympathatic towards
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:41:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The boys in the book Lord of the Flies are a bit blind to what is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The boys in the book Lord of the Flies are a bit blind to what is happening on the island, but you have to cut them some slack.  They are, after all, really just boys.  The majority are elementary school students, and the older boys don't seem to be beyond their middle school years.  If they are "blind" to what is going on around the island that is probably a big part of the reason why.
Here are some ways in which the boys seem to be...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 20:59:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Lord of the Flies, in what ways are the boys blinded to what is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Lord of the Flies, in what ways are the boys blinded to what is happening on the island?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 16:02:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does 'The Beast' represent savagery in 'Lord of the Flies'?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does 'The Beast' represent savagery in 'Lord of the Flies'?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:26:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[what kind of personality does ralph have.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[what kind of personality does ralph have.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 09:36:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I think Ralph wants to instill some sort of order in an otherwise...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think Ralph wants to instill some sort of order in an otherwise chaotic environment. By blowing the conch he's modeling to the others how to follow the rules.
The conch is a symbol of order. His decision to continue using the conch is continuing the routine they have established. It takes one person to follow the rules and other people will hopefully follow the lead.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 17:28:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Luckily for my tired eyes, this is a relatively straight forward...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Luckily for my tired eyes, this is a relatively straight forward question to answer.
Think about the motivations and actions of the characters being listed as representing civilization:
Piggy is a geeky intellectual who respects authority and the power of the rules to bring order to things.  He is not violent and enjoys the "democracy" of the island and plays within the traditional "political game" the boys find themselves in. 
Simon is more...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:58:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Explain how Piggy, Simon and Ralph represent Civilization in "Lord of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Explain how Piggy, Simon and Ralph represent Civilization in "Lord of the Flies" and how Jack, Roger, and the 'beast' represent savagery.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 18:41:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the William Golding novel, The Lord of the Flies, the tragic irony of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the William Golding novel, The Lord of the Flies, the tragic irony of Simon's death lays in the discovery of the beastie. Simon is the one who discovers the dead pilot and the parachute that when it billowed in the winds is what the boys thought was a beast. It was this perception of an unknown beast that lead to the increasingly chaotic attitude and behavior of the boys.
In addition, when Simon drags the parachute out of the jungle, the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 18:25:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[According to William Golding, "The Lord of the Flies" was meant to be
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        <description><![CDATA[According to William Golding, "The Lord of the Flies" was meant to be

"an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature."

In order to successfully do this, he needed to have the children be in an environment that had no adults.
Essentially, what Golding is trying to do is to look at what people would be like in a "state of nature" where there are no rules and no previous society to tell us how to live.
If the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 17:27:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In chapter 9, what is the tragic irony of Simon's death? Explain what...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In chapter 9, what is the tragic irony of Simon's death? Explain what the children have become.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 17:18:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why do you think the author chooses an island with no adults for the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why do you think the author chooses an island with no adults for the setting of the story?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 17:06:48 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Lord of the Flies by William Golding gives us a glimpse of how children...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Lord of the Flies by William Golding gives us a glimpse of how children would survive on an island without adults. The stranded boys need to learn how to maintain the goodness in their hearts. Without adults to oversee their activities and behavior, the boys struggle between good and evil.
Ultimately we have a degree of good and evil within us. Our conscience helps us figure out what we should do in each situation we encounter. Parents help...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:08:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In chapter 11 of Lord of the Flies, why does Ralph bother to blow the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In chapter 11 of Lord of the Flies, why does Ralph bother to blow the conch when calling together the small assembly?
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 12:33:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How is 'Lord of the Flies' an example of inherent evil revealed in mankind?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How is 'Lord of the Flies' an example of inherent evil revealed in mankind?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 12:20:40 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[After speaking with the Lord of the Flies (the pig's head on the stick)...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[After speaking with the Lord of the Flies (the pig's head on the stick) &amp; suffering an epileptic seizure, Simon awakes and asks himself “What else is there to do?” He has had a revelation: he must come face-to-face with the beast, or live in terror forever. This decision drives him up the mountain, where he sees the dead parachutist. Here is the "beast" that so frightened Samneric, &amp; in the corpse Simon recognizes the evil within...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 06:50:43 PST</pubDate>
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