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the kite runner
Jay Lewis
5/19/13
Period 6th
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In the novel Lord of the Flies, the author William Golding, proposes that the primary reason individuals descend into savagery is the influence of others on their natural instincts. When faced with a question of survive how will most humans react?

In the novel Lord of the Flies William Golding shows multiple times in the book how piggy is represented as the intelligence of the group. This quote is showing how piggy is trying to get organization in the group by finding and name the conch, “That’s what this shells called. I’ll give the conch to the next person to speak. He can hold it when he’s speaking.”(pg.33) This next quote piggy is showing how when piggy wears his glasses intelligence and knowing there stuck on an island and nobody knows, Piggy put on his glasses. “Nobody knows where we are.” (pg.34) This quote shows how intelligence is weakened when one of piggy’s glasses lens is broken by Jack, Jack smacked Piggy’s head. Piggy’s glasses flew off and tinkled on the rocks, Piggy cried out in terror: “My specs!”(pg.71)

Throughout the book William Golding shows how Jack is very repellant to the conch and rules. This quote is representing one of the first times Jack is going against the conch and the rules, “You’re always scare. Yah-Fatty!” Piggy says, “I got the conch.”(pg.45) This statement shows how Jack is going against the conch once a again after multiply times before, Jack was the first to make himself heard. He had not got the conch and thus spoke against the rules; but nobody minded. (pg.87) This quote shows how Jack really doesn’t care about the rules and only cares about hunting, “Bollocks to the rules! We’re strong-we hunt! If theres a beast, we’ll hunt it down! We’ll close in and beat and beat---!”

In the novel Lord of the Flies the other boys are influenced by Jacks bad behavior and

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