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Lord Of The Flies - College Papers

Lord Of The Flies

Last Summer I spent a week in my Aunts cabin in northern Minnesota. One afternoon while swimming with my cousins in the lake, I had found a unique clam shell. It was silvery and rainbow like on the inside and creamy white on the outside. My little cousins enjoyed looking and playing with it the remaining part of the week. When it was time to leave they both wanted to keep the shell. The wanted to claim power over it by saying “It's mine!!” To resolve this dilemma I took the shell and tossed it far into the water. This action seemed to resolve the problem between the two boys, but then they both became mad at me! This is like how the conch played a important role in this story . A ...

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on Jacks side came out and looked to see what was going on, they still believed in the power of the conch: "He [Ralph] put the conch to his lips and began to blow. Savages appeared, painted out of recognition, edging round the ledge toward the neck. Ralph went on blowing and ignored Piggy's terrors" (175).
Once the conch was shattered into a million pieces, the dwindling power left in Ralph's group was completely gone, Piggy was dead and Sam n' Eric had converted to Jacks group of savages. Ralph was alone. Then unable to pick up the pieces, Ralph continued to endure the hatred and aggravation of Jacks savage society all by himself.
Chased onto the beach, Ralph spotted a man, an officer from a naval ship. In short, this man represented the conch. He brought everyone left on the island together, in peace. The power between the children on the island had been ...

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Added: 12/9/2005 08:54:45 PM
Category: Book Reports
Type: Free Paper
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