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Lord Of The Flies - College Papers

Lord Of The Flies

I. THEME
"The author is making a comment on man vs. man and man vs. nature."
II. PLOT
The story is about a group of kids who got stranded on an island. Quickly and almost instinctively, they formed a hierarchy among the group of the older boys. With the ingenuity of most adults, they attempt to establish a system for survival. Crude in the beginning, but it eased out not only because of their mental adaptation, but because of their physical adaptation to the environment. They learned to hunt, conduct structured meetings, build shelter, find bathing facilities, and even figured out a distress call by lighting a fire and letting the smoke act as a signal. As the human instinct for food ...

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eventually led to the killing of others who weren't in the group.
III. CHARACTERS
I believe there are two main characters in the book. One of them is Ralph, for his coolness and consideration, and another is Jack, for his leadership roll. Another reason I picked Jack and Ralph as main characters is because they have a conflict throughout the whole story.

1. Ralph
Ralph is a medium sized, fair haired, boy, seemingly of about 12 years of age, making him one of the older boys in the story or a "bigun". He was the first person focused on in the book and he remained the point of focus throughout the whole story. In the beginning, he called upon all of the boys to meet at a location by blowing on a conch. When the other boys came to see the noise, they saw him, and took favor to him immediately, because he united them into a secure group. When the group voted for a leader between Ralph and Jack, Ralph won because he had been their first sight of relief from the landing. He ...

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Added: 5/24/2005 11:17:13 PM
Category: English
Type: Free Paper
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