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Lord of the Flies - Report. The main theme William Golding focuses on in
The Lord of the Flies is his opinion that, when taken away ...
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Lord of The Flies Book Report. Character Page Ralph Ralph is a fair boy
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... In this report I will demonstrate what I have found to be some of the most interesting
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The main theme William Golding focuses on in The Lord of the Flies is his opinion that, when taken away from a civilised society, people will revert back to being primitive, animal like creatures. He portrays this view throughout the book by using very different characters almost all of whom eventually forget their civilised ways. The book tells the story of a group of school boys who, after their plane crashes, are stranded on a tropical island without any adults. At first they seem enthusiastic about the situation and quickly elect one of the boys, Ralph, as a leader, but pretty soon things start to deteriorate. Another one of the boys, Jack, leaves the group to form his own tribe who become more and more violent and obsessed with hunting pigs and "the beast", that they believe lives on the island. Their violence results in the killing of two of the other boys, and at the end of the book they try to kill Ralph before all being rescued by a naval officer. The title of the book comes from an episode where Simon, a shy boy, who is described by the others as "batty" hallucinates that the dead pig's head in front of him is talking to him. The pig's head is surrounded by flies, so Simon calls it the Lord of the Flies. The title could also have another more symbolic meaning, because as time goes on the boys become more like flies themselves. Ralph, the main character in the story is introduced to the reader as a fair and likeable boy, he is the only boy who will listen to Piggy, an overweight boy who is ridiculed by everyone else for being fat and because he wears glasses and suffers from asthma, even though he is the most intelligent of all the boys. When he finds a conch, a type of shell, Ralph listens to Piggy's suggestion to "use this to call the others. Have a meeting. They'll come when they hear us." At the start Ralph is well respected and looked up to by the rest of the boys, who choose him as their chief. "There was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that...
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