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Lord of the Flies - College Papers

Lord of the Flies

When Ralph and the other boys are rescued from the island at the end of the book the first feeling is that it’s all over. All the trauma and horrific events that happened on the island end the moment the naval officer turns up to take them home, and Ralph no longer has to endure the hate and murder attempts from Jacks savages.
One could argue that Ralphs rescue is not a real rescue because although the other boys make the gradual descent into savagery, Ralph never reaches that level. Ralph doesn’t need to be rescued from his inner savage because he never loses his humanity and rationality. This is partly due to Piggy’s intellectual influence on him, their closeness throughout the novel, ...

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they experienced on the island, as it will follow them back to their previous lives but in a different form. Also, the trauma and suffering that Ralph has experiences on the island cannot be undone as easily as returning him to his family. Ralph has been so deeply disturbed by the events on the island, that it is likely that even heavy counselling will not help him.
Physically Ralph is being saved from a horrible death by the hands of Jack Merridew and his savages, and if he’d survived that his very slow descent to their level may have continued, so he is also being saved from himself. However, Ralph is not being saved from his mental trauma; no one can save him from ...

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Added: 3/23/2011 02:29:33 PM
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Category: English
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