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There are actually three deaths in William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies, but the two you mention can be classified as murders and are therefor more egregious. The first death is the little boy...
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Ralph does try and bring order to chaos on the island. His primary ojective is rescue, so the boys can reconnect to ciivilization. In the chapter two, "Fire on the Mountain," Ralph lays down rules...
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Ralph is badly shaken by Simon's death whilst Piggy is in denial. Piggy is able to be of some comfort to Ralph at this time but only by playing down Simon's death and insisting that they had done...
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In chapter 8, Jack makes the others tie Wilfred up for apparently no reason, and beats him. Jack rules by violence, not democracy. He makes decisions out of anger, and enforces them by fear. For...
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"Piggy sought in his mind for words to convey his passionate willingness to carry the conch against all odds." (Golding 172) Ralph extends the conch to Piggy and invites him to carry it to Castle...
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Simon's conversation with the beast is imagined and comes from within himself, which is where, of course, the beast is in everyone. As Simon imagines a conversation with the pig's head, the Lord of...
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There is not an exact answer to this question. As you have pointed out, there are a few versions of the chant that the boys use throughout the book--the chant changes a bit depending on the...
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Roger released a rock from above that flew down from the cliff above and hit Piggy, knocking him down. He fell forty feet and landed (dead) on his back down by the water. Then the water washed in...
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All of the characters in Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, are young boys ranging in age from five or six to about thirteen. They are on an island after a plane crash, and there are no adults...
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Simon knows that he must face the beast in Chapter 9 of Lord of the Rings. He decides to leave his hiding place and climbs the mountain to search for the beast. He discovers that it is not a beast...
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In chapter eight of Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, Jack and his hunters sharpen a stick at both ends and place the dismembered, bloody head of a pig on it. Jack knows his hunters, like...
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Simon is considered an outcast throughout the novel and is symbolic of a Christ-like figure because of his compassion and ability to understand the true identity of the beast. He is the only boy on...
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In Lord of The Flies, there is a struggle for control between Ralph and Jack. Jack feels that, because he is "chapter chorister and head boy" he should be the leader but, as Ralph has called the...
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Just about everyone bullies Piggy, including Ralph who is Piggy's closest friend. Ralph betrays Piggy's confidence early in the story when he reveals the nickname that he hates so much. A...
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Jack uses the beast in the same manner that real propagandists from history and today use scare tactics. The beast represents a threat to the other boys and strikes fear in them. Just like all...
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Early in the novel, Ralph comments that they must make a signal fire in order for them to be rescued. He hopes that a passing ship will notice the smoke and stop to pick them up. As soon as they...
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In Lord of the Flies, the pig's head upon a stick becomes the Lord of the Flies. This grotesque pig's head speaks to Simon: "What are you doing out here all alone? Aren't you afraid of me?" “I’m...
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Quote #1: "S'right. It's a shell! I seen one like that before. On someone's back wall. A conch he called it. He used to blow it and then his mum would come. It's ever so valuable—" (15). Piggy...
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Simon is an intuitive and sensitive young man. He easily sees that Ralph is nervous about the hunting trip and what the boys might find on the hill. He singles Ralph out because he respects...
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In Lord of the Flies, William Golding is conveying the message that human beings must have rules, authority and government in order to maintain a safe environment. Left to their own, with freedom...
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What Simon knows, and the rest have yet to discover, is the magnitude of Jack and his gang's savagery. When he says "...maybe it's only us that we're afraid of” he means that maybe we know that...
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The Lord of the Flies, or the pig's head on a stick, tells Simon what he has already begun to suspect as the most insightful character in the novel. As Simon has tried to figure out exactly what...
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As heart-breaking as Piggy's violent death is in Lord of the Flies, Golding uses the moment symbolically to represent an end to civilization and order on the island. Roger, the symbol of ultimate...
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The killing of the sow is very important in this novel. This scene represents the end of innocence for the boys. The sow is "in maternal bliss" as she is nursing her babies. That moment is...
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The reference in chapter 12 to the "stick sharpened at both ends" comes from the hushed conversation Ralph has with Samneric when Ralph is hiding from Jack and all the other boys. Ralph...
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There are slight differences in the book and movie. Whenever there is a movie made out of a book, there are always some kind of difference. The ones that are in The Lord of the Flies are noticeable...
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Roger's throwing rocks at Henry seems merely like a boyish game at first. He is, after all, "throwing to miss" the child. The narrator tells us that Roger does not hit Henry because...
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Metaphor- “The creature was a party of boys (pg 16).” This choice of words also has strong symbolic meaning in the overall story. Literally, they were, as a group, working their way through a...
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The title in Lord of the Flies actually refers to the boar’s head idol that Simon envisions, which is surrounded by flies. It also metaphorically refers to the rot and decay of society represented...
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This chapter symbolises the end of any vestiges of civilisation on the island and in the community of the boys. At this stage Jack and his hunters are nothing but inhuman savages filled with...
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Initially, Jack paints his face in order to hide himself better from the pigs he's hunting. He concludes that the pigs can't smell him, but they can clearly see him as he stalks them, and so he...
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As an allegory, "Lord of the Flies" has characters themselves represent traits. Thus, these characters are not the typical developed characters of most fiction. Piggy represents the adult type on...
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Roger kills Piggy because he can, and he has realized that no one on the island can or will limit his cruelty. Early on in the novel, Roger tests the boundaries of his bullying in the chapter...
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There are actually only two characters who die in this book and, therefore, do not make it off of the island when the boys are rescued at the end. Simon dies in Chapter 9 when he runs out of the...
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The mask Jack paints on his face is significant for several reasons: 1. The mask includes the symbolic color of red. This blood color seems to accompany what occurs as soon as Jack lives life after...
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In Lord of the Flies, Jack represents the savagery or evil in man. He loses his ability to remain civilized while he is stranded on the island. He gives in to his innate savagery and becomes...
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In selecting passages from chapters of a novel that are significant, the student will want to seek those that reveal much about themes or character. In Chapter Seven of Lord of the Flies there is...
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One of the dominant themes in Lord of the Flies is fear. All of the boys struggle with fear throughout the novel, and their responses to those fears define many of the most pivotal moments in the...
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In chapter eight of Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, Jack and his hunters sharpen a stick at both ends and place the dismembered head of a pig on it as a kind of offering. Jack says, “This...
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Jack does not respect Piggy, and he shows it through his words and actions. In chapter two, when the boys decide to light a fire to attract ships with the smoke, they have no way of lighting the...
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After the Roman-like feast in which the boys engaged in animalistic behavior and became so carried away in their beating of the beast ritual that the unsuspecting Simon became caught in, and,...
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Well, when the boys decide that they should have a chief, Jack immediately chirps up and puts himself forth for the role: 'Shut up,' said Ralph absently. He lifted the conch. 'Seems to me we...
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The main point of this quote, which is a chant uttered by the boys as they participate in a somewhat frenzied and primitive dance around the fire after eating pig killed by Jack, is that it is...
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At the end of the novel Lord of the Flies, Ralph cries. He cries for the loss of innocence of the boys on the island. Ralph cries because he realizes that he almost dies at the hand of Jack and...
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Piggy's glasses come to represent both weakness and power as the novel progresses. At the beginning of the novel, Piggy's glasses are a symbol of his physical weakness which sets him apart from...
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The actual cause of the plane crash is not revealed. However, the reason the boys were on the plane to begin with was because they were being evacuated from a nuclear war in Europe. This parallels...
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Jack and his band of hunters successfully kill their first pig in chapter 4. When Jack enlists the help of Samneric to join the hunt, the twins dismiss their duty of maintaining the signal fire at...
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In chapter 7, Ralph begins daydreaming about a comfortable place for he and his parents to visit. Every aspect of civilized life came into view for Ralph: Once, following his father from Chatham to...
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In the novel, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the island represents the microcosm of the world the boys have left behind. The island is by itself with no other people nearby, so the boys...
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Ralph is chosen as chief because he blew the conch that led them all together, and it imbued him with power in the other boys’ eyes. When the boys decide they should have a chief, Jack is convinced...
