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  • Commentary on Lord Of The Flies

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    Lord of the Flies The novel Lord of the Butterflies written by William Golding is about a plane shot down over a deserted tropical island When they landed there were two boys Ralph and Piggy who discover a conch on the beach and Piggy realizes it could be used as a horn to gather the other boys Once assembled the boys had an idea about electing a leader and leading a way to be rescued They choose Ralph as their leader but another boy named Jack wanted to become leader During the time the boys w

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    Lord of the Flies The book Lord of the Flies is a novel about a group a British boys whose plane crashes on an island and forces them to fight for survival The theme of Goldings story is an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill said the head You knew didnt you Im part of you Close close close Im the reason its no go Why things are what they are These words were said by the smiling face of the Lo

  • Commentary on Lord Of The Flies

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    I N THE MIDST OF A RAGING WAR a plane evacuating a group of schoolboys from Britain is shot down over a deserted tropical island Two of the boys Ralph and Piggy discover a conch shell on the beach and Piggy realizes it could be used as a horn to summon the other boys Once assembled the boys set about electing a leader and devising a way to be rescued They choose Ralph as their leader and Ralph appoints another boy Jack to be in charge of the boys who will hunt food for the entire group Ralph Ja

  • Jack in Lord Of The Flies

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    Consider the way Golding presents Jack and his development throughout Lord of the Flies Jack is a leader but his methods are the natural opposite to those of Ralph Jack is dictatorial and aggressive he has a strong desire to lead and asserts himself through his prowess as a hunter which deteriorates into lust for killing The character of Jack shows how without the restrictions of adults or society certain people revert to primitive desires and actions Jacks character degenerates as the story un

  • Jack And Simon in Lord Of The Flies

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    In the Lord of the Flies William Golding makes many contrasts between his symbolic characters For example in chapter three Huts on the beach many contrasts and similarities are made between the two characters Jack and Simon They are both significantly affected by the dramatic nature of the island but view it in differing ways Where Jack views it as a dark hunting ground Simon views it as an open world filled with natural beauty These descriptions give an idea to each characters individual perso

  • Plot Commentary for The Outsider

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    Plot Summary of The Outsider by Albert Camus Meursault the narrator is a young man living in Algiers After receiving a telegram informing him of his mothers death he takes a bus to Marengo where his mother had been living in an old persons home He sleeps for almost the entire trip When he arrives he speaks to the director of the home The director allows Meursault to see his mother but Meursault finds that her body has already been sealed in the coffin He declines the caretakers offer to open th

  • The Ending of The Things They Carried

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    It All Comes Together Different stories have various types of endings Fairy tales always end up with the princess marrying the prince mysteries end with the detective catching the villain romance ends up with two people falling in love Some readers like the stories based on historical events The endings in these stories generally end up with a character accomplishing a feat or coming to some sort of realization about something One such story by Tim OBrien ends with this reality The Things They

  • Alienation and Literary Elements in A Perfect Day For Bananafish

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    Alienation is so destructive in society that it forces and individual to an unthinkable escape The story A Perfect Day for Bananafish by J D Salinger explores this idea fully Seymour Glass a young World War II veteran has just been released from the military hospital and is having difficulty adjusting to normalcy in society Seymour is in a loveless marriage to his wife Muriel He cannot connect with her due to the fact that she is more interested in herself than her own husband while on their va

  • Comparison Between The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World and The Drowned Giant

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    Comparison between The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World and The Drowned Giant The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World by Gabriel Marquez and The Drowned Giant by J G Ballard are both short stories that explore the ways in which societies react to the external and exotic world The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World is about a man who was washed ashore near a small village and the impact of the mans presence which helped the villagers to revive their dreary and barren village into a beautiful

  • Death Is A Part Of Life: The Things They Carried, The Approximate Size of My Fav

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    Death is a Part of Life In these three short stories The Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumour by Sherman Alexie Loss of the Sky by Elizabeth Cook Lynn and The Things They Carried by Tim OBrien they show that death is a part of life The main character in The Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumour Jimmy Many Horses uses humor to offset that he is sick and dying of cancer With Loss of The Sky Joseph Shields loses his son in World War I he is affected by that and he loses the control of his own l

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