...Lord of the Flies Comprehensive Test True/False- Mark “A” for True and “B” for False. 1. When Ralph is elected chief, Jack is so frustrated that he refuses to hunt. 2. Ralph starts the signal fire by rubbing two sticks together. 3. The signal fire goes out because Jack and the hunters neglect it. 4. A wild boar eats the littlun who has a mulberry-colored birthmark on his face. 5. Piggy’s parents will come find them. 6. The conch provides a symbol for authority that the boys recognize as civilized. 7. The main source of food on the island is food scavenged from the wreckage of the airplane. 8. The boys murder Simon because they think that he is “batty.” 9. Piggy is not afraid of Jack because he knows that SamnEric will protect him. 10. Ralph and Jack initially had a mutual respect for each other that diminished by the end of the book. Match the following descriptions with the choices given (A-E) a. Ralph b. Piggy c. Jack d. Simon e. Roger 11. dies when a rock falls on him 12. the elected leader of the group 13. the most evil character; kills Piggy 14. puts his own lust for hunting ahead of everyone else’s needs 15. sees people for what they really are 16. represents the power-hungry dictator in society 17. represents the mystic philosophers in society 18. represents the good-hearted rule-following leaders in society 19. represents the evil sadist figures in society 20. represents the scholars...
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...Lord of the Flies Full book report 1. A person’s behaviour is determined by several causes through out his life. The phase already begins when we are born. As a child we’re taught how to behave by our parents. Later on our teachers and surroundings influence our behaviour towards a more and more civilized one. In a society we’re kept as civilized as possible by following rules and laws. If we as human beings are placed away from a society, will we be able to maintain our civilized characters, or will we become savaged barbarians? This is the theme William Golding creates in his novel The Lord of the Flies from 1954. Golding takes his readers on a journey, where he shows what mankind is capable of doing through youngsters. The question is: can the young kids maintain civilization? 2.c. The Lord of the Flies is a novel about a group of young boys who crash on an island. While they’re stuck on the island they manage to establish some order and civilization by choosing a leader and by using a conch shell to arrange meetings between the boys. The established civilization crumbles as the book goes on because some of the boys can’t control their animalistic qualities. The boys waddle between the human instinct of savagery and the civilized ways of order, which they’re taught from home. Despite the fact that they try to establish order they become more and more drawn towards savagery throughout the book. The sow’s head and the conch shell are both symbols of power, but...
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...Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies is a fantasy book that tells the story of what happens to a group of boys stranded on an island after a plane crash. Many events occur while the boys are on the island. Some are good, others are not quite so good, and then there are some events that are just down right horrible. Even though the boys are on an island that seems to be very far away from civilization, almost all of the events that happen are caused by the war that is going on in the adult’s world. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding demonstrates how the wickedness of mankind causes the destruction of the boy’s civilization on the island. There are many events that symbolize how the boy’s civilization was corrupted by mankind. Simon’s death is a good symbol for this because his death was caused by “the beast”. A dead parachuter floated onto the island because he was shot down out of plane from the war and the boy’s called it “the beast”. Simon is the only boy brave enough to get close enough to “the beast” to find out anything more about it, and when he does he finds out that it is just a dead man. Simon goes down to the beach to try to tell the boys what he discover but they are doing their hunting dance, and being caught up in the moment they kill him (52). Simons death illustrates that mankind corrupted the boys civilization because they new it was Simon that they were attacking but they didn’t care. They thought nothing about what they were doing and the consequences that...
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...In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a plane filled with kids aging from six through twelve crashes on an island during a nuclear war. Due to the plane crash the adults die and Ralph and Piggy gather up the remainder of the kids through a conch shell that Ralph found and choose a leader. Ralph is good looking and Jack is a leader of choir boys. The group of kids choose Ralph as the leader over Jack . Ralph designates roles to the kids and assigns Jack and his choir boys to be hunters because of the knife he has. He splits the group of kids into a search party containing Ralph, Jack, and Simon to search for life but find the island is uninhabited. On their way back they see a pig stuck in between vines and tell Jack to kill it but Jack...
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...The Abominable Man William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies was published in 1952, seven years after the disastrous WWII. During the war, the veil of civilization was exposed very center revealing the true underlying evil of mankind, resulting in the death of millions including one victim; Anne Frank. Although she was hiding in a annex for two years because of the result of the brutality of people’s discrimination, she wrote; “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” It is hard to think that such a young and innocent girl would perish soon after writing this in the concentration camps constructed by the Nazis. The Nazis’ brutal ‘purification’ of the world, leaving millions dead in the brutal concentration camps and the horrific gas chambers, exemplify Golding’s ideas of mankind; brutal, destructive and evil which are inherent in human nature. The use of Jack, the pig hunts, the Lord of the Flies, Simon and the island that Golding believes in the idea that evil in an inborn characteristic of the archaic human race. Golding's use of characterization of Jack portrays the capacity of evil and violence which men are capable of due to their inborn human nature of evil. This is indicated when Jack, feeling especially bloodthirsty after a pig hunt starts to chant: " Kill the pig, cut his throat! Kill the...
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...Lord of the Flies: Literary Analysis In the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, a plane full of English boys was attacked and crashed onto an island when trying to evacuate a nuclear war. Now the boys must learn to survive and work together. Although they began as a civilized bunch, after conflicts between group leaders Ralph and Jack, savagery starts to emerge. Golding uses the conflict between the civilizations to show how the darkness of human nature can affect even little childrens. At the beginning of the novel, Ralph, described as “the boy with fair hair”, and Piggy a whiney, intellectual chubby boy, found a conch shell which was used to call the other boys who were lost on the island to the beach. Among the boys was a choir group led by a boy named Jack. Ralph was soon elected as leader seeing as being the one who called everyone together. Jack was in charge of the choir group to hunt for food. After countless failure of capturing a pig, Jack decided to paint his face with clay to be camouflaged from the pig. He lead the boys and finally killed his first of pig and came back to the group with the pig strapped to a stick and the boys chanting, “ Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood!”(69). We can see how excited the boys got from killing a measly pig. Jack describes his experience with Ralph explaining, “ There was lashings of blood...you should have seen it!”(69). Jacks thirst for more blood is an obvious sign of the development of savagery. Later...
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...In his book “Lord of the Flies” William Golding expresses his opinion on human nature through the story of a group of schoolboys who get on a deserted island after an airplane crash. Through the thoughts and actions of different characters, their behavior in different circumstances William Golding shows us that the mankind is naturally evil, everyone is born with the evil inside and the society and the surroundings in which people live don’t play any role in making them bad and fulfilling evil intentions. At the same time the ability to control the bad side of his personality depends on the person himself and the moral norms that he can oppose to the evil. From the very beginning of the novel we observe the inequality which exists among the boys, the appearing of the leaders and those whose opinion is not taken into account. The big boys feel their power and start to use it against the younger ones. They pick on the small boys for no reason, run through their sandcastles destroying them. Sometimes they show real examples of cruelty without any reason (Roger throwing stones at Henry). Almost all the boys pick on Piggy, an overweight boy who wears spectacles and has asthma, never listen to his wise advice judging only by his appearances. At the same situation appears another boy called Simon who announces the main reason of everybody’s fears but is also mocked at and not paid the proper attention. Thus we can see that the boys of about 12-14 years already show the features and...
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...Lord of the Flies Report In the novel, “Lord of the Flies”, by William Golding the author talks about a group of boys that are stranded on a deserted island after a dangerous plane crash in which all adults died. The boys started off as innocent schoolboys that you would expect to find in the 1940's, but quickly descend into savages. Ralph, the first boy we meet in the novel, is appointed the "chief" of all of them. Throughout the story he develops a close relationship with Piggy, a boy who gained his name due to his weight. Piggy is immediately recognized as the voice of the adult world when he states that “I expect we'll want to know all their names, and make a list. “We ought to have a meeting." This statement shows Piggy's reliance on law and order, and shows his desperation for his, and the other boy’s, well-being. Throughout this book one can say that Piggy and Ralph had many differences and similarities. Some of the obvious differences are the size of the two boys. Ralph is a fairly skinny kid whereas Piggy is a more pudgy or fat boy. Also another similarity the two shares are that Ralph and Piggy both show signs of leadership, but Ralph appears to be more of the one to take charge than Piggy. Piggy is slightly younger than Ralph. He is the weakling in the group being overweight and suffering from asthma. He is dressed similar to Ralph in a typical school uniform and wears glasses. He is weak, smart, and friendly. In the text, Piggy seems to be shown throughout...
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...Devine Providence Block 3 In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, several school boys are stranded on a deserted island with no adults. At first, they are scared and don’t know what to do so they elect a chief, Ralph, to run the show and keep everything/everyone in order. When they realize that they don’t have to listen to what Ralph is demanding, the island turns to chaos and the boys turn into little savages. It is a struggle for them to survive and as a result two young, innocent children pay the price for others actions. When they are finally rescued the school boys are ecstatic and can’t wait. Although, there are a lot of things they are going to have to learn all over and try to pick up where they left off. Ralph, “He was old enough, twelve years and a few months…” “You could see now that he might make a boxer, as far as width and heaviness of shoulders went…” (Golding 10). He is, out of all the boys the most calm and collected, mentally. When the officer arrived at the island the boys were stunned, but at the same time half of their mind said “Let’s go home,” and the other half said “I want to stay.” As happy as Ralph is to go home, he has a lot that is going to have to be re-taught before everything returns to normal. Compared to expectations for Jack, Ralph’s transition to “normalcy” will be somewhat smoother and easier. During the whole spine tingling experience on the island, all he tried to do was keep thing in order with the help of his new best...
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...Throughout Lord of The Flies, William Golding makes strong use of themes. One of the main themes is fear. The boys are always filled with fear and think that something bad is going to happen to them or others and when they feared things many things followed that taught the readers about fear. One of the messages that the author sends about fear is that it can be purely imagination. In Lord of The Flies the boys fear a beastie which in reality does not exist. Believe it or not, fear can actually make some people motivated. It causes people to start to do whatever it takes to stop the fear from becoming a reality. In the novel the boys start to build spears and become stronger in order to be able to fight the beast and this is because fear made...
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...In some works of literature, childhood and adolescence are portrayed as times graced by innocence and a sense of wonder; in other works, they are depicted as times of tribulation and terror. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the meaning of adolescence is represented by innocence as well as terror which shapes the theme, savagery vs. civilization. The boys’ adolescence is represented by the amount of innocence they present when first arriving on the island. “Ralph pursed his lips and squirted air into the shell, which emitted a low, farting noise. This amused both boys so much that Ralph went on squirting for some minutes, between bouts of laughter”, (Golding, 17). Ralph and Piggy find a shell while walking around the island and try to figure out how to use it. Their innocence is shown through the happiness and enjoyment they get from making a funny noise with the shell. The scene represents their innocent characters before conflicts arise and change them for the worst....
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...Sacrifice is absolutely crucial to surviving in an extreme environment. The boys in William Golding's Lord of the Flies are not an expectation. At the end of the novel the narrator states, " And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend Piggy." Illustrating the idea that the ability to sacrifice impacts the boys' survival as they are trapped on a deserted island after a plane crash. Jack gives up his morals in order to survive, and as a result devolves from a proper english schoolboy into a blood thirsty savage to a coward. Jack is first introduced as acting in a uniformed manner....
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...Throughout the history of civilization, the forces of righteousness and evil have battled inside man. In the Lord of the Flies, William Golding explores a religious allegory in order to convey the innate forces of good and evil inside of man. After a group of civilized British boys is stranded on a pristine island, two boys are dead and the island burns leaving nothing but ashes. Golding uses the dramatic difference on the island to show the wreckage of the war between good and evil and the inevitable aftermath: destruction. The good, evil, and humankind are epitomized by Jack, Simon, and Ralph respectively. As a civilized boy turned savage, Jack Merridew represents the darkness in mankind. Jack, at the beginning of the novel, is a hot-tempered...
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...In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, leadership plays a huge role in the plot and structure of the novel. Jack and Ralph tend to battle out who gets the main role as leader of the group of boys. Ralph is first elected leader in the beginning assembling the boys with a conch shell and having the boys vote between Jack and Ralph. Later in the novel after the death if Piggy, Jack makes a point to the boys saying that he should be the leader because he can provide them food and safety. In the novel, Jack and Ralph have two very different point of views on leadership, Jack is more of a protector and Ralph would rather make shelter and help with keeping the boys physiological state, both leaders keep Maslows Hierarchy of Needs in mind when leading the boys. Ralph is the first leader elected by the boys of the island, Ralph wanted the boys to elect a leader unlike Jack who just said pick me to be your leader. After Ralph blew the conch shell and gathered the boys, he decided...
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...The title of a piece of literature can give hints of the main ideas in the work. Lord of the Flies is no exception to that. In the novel, a sow is killed by Jack and his followers and placed on a stake, which Simon later stubbles upon. The head is covered in flies and, in a delusion, talks to Simon. The Lord of the Flies states ”Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could kill and hunt!...You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you” (Golding 143). Simon comes to the revelation that the Lord of the Flies is not a creature, but something that is a part of human nature. The Lord of the Flies symbolises the beast itself that causes so many problems in the book. The fact that the boys cannot kill or get rid of the beast because it is in all of them...
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