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Lord of the Flies
At the beginning of chapter 2, Ralph holds an assembly and explains to the boys that they are on an uninhabited island. Ralph then proceeds to set rules and establish priorities for the group. The...
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Lord of the Flies
Ralph and Piggy find the conch shell together in the first chapter of Lord of the Flies while they are looking around the lagoon and learning about their new environment. They spot the shell in the...
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In chapter 8 of Lord of the Flies Jack is utterly humiliated when no one votes for him to become chief. Crying, he slinks off to the jungle to lick his wounds, so to speak. By rejecting Jack as...
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Lord of the Flies
In chapter 1, Ralph, Jack, and Simon explore the island by going on an expedition. While they are hiking through the forest, they spot pig-runs, which Jack initially thinks are man-made paths. As...
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Ralph is hiding in the jungle desperately trying to avoid being hunted down and killed by Jack's band of bloodthirsty savages. While there, he stumbles across the sow's head—the Lord of the Flies...
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Lord of the Flies
In chapter 2 of Lord of the Flies, Jack's true domineering nature starts to emerge, along with all his arrogance and desire for control. Piggy and Ralph are making strenuous efforts to establish a...
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Lord of the Flies
In the first chapter of Lord of the Flies, the notions of civility and barbarism come up over and over. This repetition sets the stage for the rest of the novel as the boys struggle to maintain...
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Lord of the Flies
If one were to create a symbolic mask to represent Ralph's character in the novel Lord of the Flies, one could begin by forming the mask into the shape of a conch. Throughout the novel, the conch...
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Lord of the Flies is not a happy book. It's a dark and depressing account of young boys foregoing societal kindness and altruism in favor of base savagery. Golding begins setting this mood right...
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William Golding never gives readers this information; however, readers can make somewhat of an educated guess about how long the boys were on the island. The narrator doesn't tell readers about any...
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In Chapter 8, after Simon experiences his hallucination of "the Lord of the Flies," a hallucination inspired by the decomposing impaled pig's head, he loses consciousness and wakes up to find he...
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In chapter 1, the boys elect Ralph as chief, and he immediately tells Jack that the choir belongs to him. The first job that Jack claims for the choir is to be the group's hunters. Throughout the...
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In chapter 2, the boys fail to make a sustainable signal fire, and Ralph mentions that they need to put people in charge of maintaining the fire at all times. Ralph also says that they should have...
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There are quite a few themes that you could write about concerning this story. I'll try to list out as many as I can and give a brief description of that particular theme. Good and evil. Readers...
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In Chapter 7, Ralph joins Jack's hunting expedition and almost kills a pig. As the boys are walking through the forest, they hear the sound of running pigs and suddenly a boar bounds onto the pig...
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By Chapter 6, when the beast from the air arrives terrifying Sam and Eric, Ralph's authority as leader of the boys is already shaky. Jack is already challenging Ralph's system of rules, and...
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In chapter 2, Jack begins to display his domineering, disruptive behavior by interrupting Ralph's speech and unceremoniously ending the assembly as soon as Ralph mentions a signal fire. At the...
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In chapter 9, a violent storm hits the island, and Jack and his hunters begin ritualistically dancing on the beach. The boys work themselves into a frenzy as Ralph and Piggy join the group of...
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Lord of the Flies
Because there are many different editions of William Golding's 1954 novel, providing a definitive page number is impossible. For example, the quotation is found on page 143 of the paperback...
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When Piggy finds the conch in chapter 1, Ralph is drawn to the shape and appearance of the shell. Piggy excitedly rambles about his knowledge of conch shells, and then he says to Ralph, "We can use...
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After Jack and his hunters kill the first pig, Jack refuses to give Piggy any meat because he wants to punish Ralph for humiliating him for not keeping the fire going. Jack and his hunters were...
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Belonging is a strong theme throughout Lord of the Flies. The book follows a series of power shifts as the boys jockey for social standing and leadership roles. Jack is the character who best...
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Prejudice against vulnerable individuals is illustrated by the way Jack and his hunters treat Piggy, Simon, and the littluns. Both Piggy and Simon are vulnerable because they are viewed as outcasts...
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Ralph is initially rude and dismissive towards Piggy at the beginning of the novel. Ralph is relatively unsympathetic towards Piggy and calls him by his embarrassing nickname in front of the boys....
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Jack Merridew's convictions and beliefs concern the ability to act upon one's instincts without consequences or repercussions. Throughout the novel, Jack continually neglects the rules and rejects...
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Toward the end of the novel, a fleet of British ships finally arrives to rescue the remaining boys from the island. The officer takes one look at the boys and says with a smile, "Fun and games." To...
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Empathy is undoubtedly one of Ralph's main characteristics, as well as one of his greatest strengths. His behavior is consistently empathetic towards the other boys throughout the story. For...
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The crying of the littlun shows just how much the beast has gripped the terrified imaginations of the boys on the island. Ever since one of the littluns claimed to have seen a snake-monster, the...
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The respective fears of Ralph and Piggy are very closely aligned. Piggy is frightened that he will not survive life on the island. As an overweight, shortsighted boy, he knows he is a prime target...
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Piggy is crushed by a boulder shoved by Roger down the mountainside. Ralph manages to dodge the massive rock, but Piggy is not as lucky. The rock crushes Piggy and throws him off the mountainside....
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One of the main themes Golding examines throughout the novel Lord of the Flies concerns the inherent wickedness of mankind. Golding believed that humans were inherently evil, malevolent beings that...
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In Chapter 2 of Lord of the Flies Ralph tells the boys that they'll need to build a signal fire if they're going to be rescued. Jack, without being asked, immediately volunteers himself and his...
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Percival is the littlun who gets sand in his eye. Percival, along with two other littluns, Johnny and Henry, are spending time on the beach, playing with their sandcastle towns in quiet...
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In William Golding's The Lord of the Flies, nobody starts a signal fire by rubbing two sticks together. After the boys amass a pile of wood, Ralph and Jack realize they don't actually know how to...
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At the end of chapter 3, Simon isolates himself in a secluded part of the jungle. The text tells us that, after picking fruit for the "littluns," Simon walks towards the high jungle. Here, the...
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In chapter 5, Ralph holds an assembly to discuss why the boys are neglecting their responsibilities and address their fear of the beast. Essentially, the boys' attempt at creating a civil society...
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Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird have contrasting worldviews, which are illustrated by the plot, characters, and tone of both novels. Throughout Lord of the Flies, William Golding...
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The conch shell symbolically represents civilization, order, and structure throughout the novel. It is also considered a symbol of authority because everyone must assemble when it is blown, and any...
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At this point, we've reached chapter 11 of Lord of the Flies. Jack is now in complete control of the island, lord and master of all he surveys. As his power has grown, so Ralph's has gradually...
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Golding specifically devises a scenario where previously civilized adolescent boys are left to their own devices to create and sustain a civilized society without interference from adults. By...
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Jack sets up headquarters at Castle Rock, a fairly unimposing semicircular cave. The strategic location of the cave and its proximity to the sea make it a potentially impregnable fort. Jack...
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Piggy and Simon both encourage Ralph to remain chief. Toward the end of chapter 5, Jack says, "Bollocks to the rules!" as his group of hunters exit the assembly meeting (Golding, 130). Ralph...
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Roger is referred to as the "dark boy." He is a natural sadist who becomes the "official" torturer and executioner of Jack's tribe of savages later on in the novel. Throughout the novel, Roger does...
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In chapter 1, Jack immediately demonstrates his need to be in control when Ralph suggests that the boys select a chief. Jack responds by saying, I ought to be chief . . . because I'm chapter...
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In chapter 2, Ralph holds an assembly in which he addresses the top priorities that must be completed in order to be rescued from the uninhabited island. Ralph mentions that the boys must build a...
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In chapter 3 of Lord of the Flies, called "Huts on the Beach," we can see a metaphor in the sentence "They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate." The "they"...
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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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That's a great thesis. It makes a claim about the book that I feel can be strongly supported. There are plenty of instances in the book where Golding shows how the boys did something evil or...
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Before we talk about how to analyze this passage, it's appropriate to briefly discuss the atmosphere of the novel. Additionally, in order to apply the passage to a theme, we need to discuss a...
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This quotation is taken from the sixth chapter of William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Although the excerpt is narrated in the third person, we are looking at the scene through the eyes of Ralph....
