Why does Golding use Britishschool boysIn Lord of the Flies?
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Isn't Golding Brtish himself? He may just use what he knows best. Also, British may represent Western society in general, so he might be saying something critical there.
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I think what you've done so far is very good, but it is really only scratching the surface.  Assuming that you have to compare the 2 texts you cannot assume that other readers will sympathise with either of the adult males, so you have to point out how the sympathy came about.  To do this refer directly to how the author's use of specific words within the text engender feelings; for example the teacher is 'pleased' and 'delighted' with the lesson however because of the 'theft' of rubbers and his inability to detect who was doing the stealing, he felt like 'a bad teacher' and thus went back on his word.  This extract shows the power struggle that goes on in a classroom and is possibly an indication that the teacher is new and unable to command respect or obedience.\n\nThe second extract shows a similar theme where a father appears to be losing the respect and (he thinks) the love of his daughters.  As they are growing up he realises that his position as ''Number one man'' will be taken by the young men who will come 'prowling'.  The author's use of this word gives the reader the impression that father thinks of his daughters as vulnerable, that they are merely unwary prey for the predatory young men.\n\nFind other examples like these, starting at the beginning of the text and work your way down.  Good luck and hope that helps.
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If you are talking about the Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway is made the narrator because he is a reliable one. He tells us that he reserves all his judgments, therefore, the reader can believe what he is saying is coming from an objective point of view.\n\nSo why is this in the swimming and diving section?
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[For whatever it's worth, I’ve tried recasting it, trying my best not to change the way you wanted to say what you wanted to say, relocating some of your ideas for a more unified presentation, better impact, all the while remaining consistent with your preference for the present tense. The paragraph breakdowns are more for consistency, flow and visual impact. Please verify your quotes; make sure they're verbatim and punctuated as they are in the book. Here goes:]\n\nFear is one of the most powerful emotions that control the way a human being acts in certain circumstances. It contributes to one’s instability and, ultimately, to irrationality.\n\nWilliam Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” is all about fear and its irrational consequences. It sheds light on that kind of fear that may not be of something physical at all. It is the irrational fear of fear itself, the big horrid “Beast of Fear” with claws, eyes, and teeth lurking inside us. It is the fear we prefer to ignore. In “Lord of the Flies,” it is the fear which leads to irrational acts.\n\nIn “Lord of the Flies,” the boys fear almost everything they see and hear on the island, assuming them to be beasts. As the novel progresses, their fear of the unknown beast becomes exceedingly powerful their attitudes towards it become increasingly irrational. Terror paralyzes their minds, leaving them too weak to face the truth about their fears. \n\nThe beast in the novel symbolizes fear flying around on the island. Fear is evident in all the boys, from the nightmares to the belief in the existence of a beast. From the moment the first littlun claims to have seen snake-monster in Chapter 2, even the hunters begin having nightmares of their own. In Chapter 5, Jack, addressing Ralph, says, “You said they dream and cry out. Now they talk not only the littluns, but also my hunters sometimes talk of a thing, a dark thing, a beast, some sort of animal.” (p. 83). Indeed, the boys’ fear of the beast becomes an increasingly important aspect of their lives. The fact that all the boys on the island are younger than thirteen greatly affects the amount of fear that control them. Their cries can only reverberate within the walls of their own nightmares.\n\nFurther, a little boy named Phil dreams of weird animals, saying, “And I was frightened…and then I saw something moving among the trees, something big and horrid.” (p. 85) His mind is so obsessed with “beasties” it simply refuses to accept the reality that it is Simon he see in the dark. As a matter of fact, imagination and fear shape their illusory description of the beast which the twins, Samneric, describe, “There were eyes, teeth, claws. The beast followed us, nearly touched me.” (p. 100) [Question: Is this the way you intended to write this part? Your original posting made them appear like sub-topics.] But beast, it was not; it was a dead parachutist.\n\nFear of the beast totally conquers their minds, making their brains too crippled to think straight. Their imaginations are so powerful, so overpowering and wild that they fail to see the fear for what it is: the beast that impels them to crime.\n\nFear so control them to the point of believing and doing anything, even trying to regain peace and freedom from fear itself by killing the beast. Thus, when Simon comes stumbling out of the dark forest while the boys are doing a victory dance, everyone surrounds him, chanting, "Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!" (p. 152) Believing him to be the beast, they poke savagely at him with their spears until the “Beast” is dead. The beast is dead, indeed, and fear has just taken an innocent life.\n\nHowever, not all the boys are too affected by fear. Ralph and Piggy struggle to be logical. \n\nWhen the topic of fear is brought up during one of their assemblies, Ralph declares boldly, “The thing is Fear can't hurt you any more than a dream. There aren't any beasts to be afrai
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No, you are not stupid the show does not make any sense. At first I thought it would be like the Lord of the Flies but from what I've heard it's just a show that keeps dragging on. The plot line seems to get more outrageous as the show drags on.
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I'm not sure, but why don't you include a quote from the teacher or the book using these terms?  I'm sure putting them in context would help with identifying them.
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well, you have to understand that the book itself is not about magic/witchcraft. It is about a boy who is accepted into a private school and must pass many trials and fight many evils to protect the people and ideals he loves from harm. If you really think about it, all he is trying to do is stop the man who killed his parents from killing more people. The only thing that really makes it diferent from any other murder mystery novel is the obstacles (both external and internal) he must overcome and the means he has to overcome them. \n\nNow, when you look at it that way,... is it really that bad? It's not teaching kids to worship Satan. It's not teaching them that God doesnt exist. It's not teaching them to turn a book into a rat, or to follow a different religious path. (simply because there are people who become obsessed with it, doesnt mean that everyone does. it is a series. if you have read one book in a series, and liked it, wouldnt YOU like to see how it ends?) It is simply a means to entertain your child or even yourself. It DOES teach the value of friendship. It DOES teach that you should be loyal to your ideals, to your friends, and most of all, to yourself.\n\nNOW do you still have a problem with it? Isn't it better to think about things rather than assume that because it has magic in it, it is wrong?
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Yes. Its about these shipwrecked or actually "planewrecked" boys who get onto an island. They try to organize themselves but turn into barbarians and start killing each other. They spear one boy. Beat another one to death. And push off a kid off a 40 foot ledge. At the end, a deus ex machina saves the protaganist. Some officers suddenly appear saving them the protagonist from a the group of angry armed boys.\n\nHere's more information:\nhttp://www.gerenser.com/lotf/\nhttp://www.sparknotes.com/lit/flies/\n\nSparknotes has summaries for  each chapter. I highly suggest you read them and you'll get the point much better!
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I think it's about abuse of power and similar - I read the book a couple of years ago, but I've repressed almost all memory of it; \n\nI think it's also about the consequences the absence of rules can have, about how people tend to revert to their basic instincts (survival of the toughest);\n\nlast but not least, it's also about how in the absece of any restraints people tend to become (unnecessary) cruel\n\nP.S.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies is a really good link to start with \ngood luck!
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From the Nobel Prizes : http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1983/golding-bio.html\n\nBooks and Writers :\nhttp://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wgolding.htm\n\nOfficial home page : http://www.william-golding.co.uk/
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There are British Language schools.
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This book is indeed permeated with symbols.If you want ,W Golding uses Robinson Crusoe's Myth but in a reversed variant:to be more specific if Daniel Defoe wants to show the way from primitivism to civilisation,W Golding points to the fact that human beings can easily turn back fom civilisation to primitivism.If you read the book you can see the boys spliting into 2 groups :the one led by Ralph and the other led by Jack.While one group enjoy order and discipline and always want to keep the fire burning so as to be finally rescued,the other group want to rule by fear and terror ,they like to go hunting and paint their faces!Let's take things in turn:The fire is a symbol of hope(because this is the only way they can be seen from the island)When the other boys steal the fire is because they have been transformed by the forces of the evil inside themselves,they have been guided by the primitive instincts inside them.Then we have the conch or that shell that Simon is going to carry whenever there's a meeting on the beach.It's a symbol of order and respect for the one who's talking(they could talk only if they touched the conch showing they have an opinion referring to that problem in discussion)Then Simon is wearing glasses which a symbol ,too,It stands for wisdom and intellingence and for civilised world with rules and obligations.Simon agrees that the fire should burn all the time on the island but he's bullied by the rough boys who are rebelling against order.While doing this they have steps behind to primitivism.So they go hunting wild pigs and invent stories about a creature on the island just to scare the others.The fact that they paint their faces like the savages  shows that they run away from who they are,they want to hide their true identity so they can be free to do what they want :fight,hunt,steal and even kill!\nThe pig's head put in a stick in the middle of the forest is in fact the lord of the flies,i.e the lord of terror,of evil forces lying in human beings.It';s symbolical for the bad boys on the island and it's opposite the conch .\nW.Golding knows very well the psychology of kids.He uses a very simple topic but he finally manages to reach complex things in this book which is part of metafiction literature.\nHope you understood something and if you didn't read the book ,please find some time and do it ...it's magnificent!
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Are you sure it's not piggy? I thought he was the one with the glasses? Well...look here:\nhttp://www.sparknotes.com/lit/flies/canalysis.html\n\nRalph is the athletic, charismatic protagonist of Lord of the Flies. Elected the leader of the boys at the beginning of the novel, Ralph is the primary representative of order, civilization, and productive leadership in the novel. While most of the other boys initially are concerned with playing, having fun, and avoiding work, Ralph sets about building huts and thinking of ways to maximize their chances of being rescued. For this reason, Ralph’s power and influence over the other boys are secure at the beginning of the novel. However, as the group gradually succumbs to savage instincts over the course of the novel, Ralph’s position declines precipitously while Jack’s rises. Eventually, most of the boys except Piggy leave Ralph’s group for Jack’s, and Ralph is left alone to be hunted by Jack’s tribe. Ralph’s commitment to civilization and morality is strong, and his main wish is to be rescued and returned to the society of adults. In a sense, this strength gives Ralph a moral victory at the end of the novel, when he casts the Lord of the Flies to the ground and takes up the stake it is impaled on to defend himself against Jack’s hunters.
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Hey! I'm doing that book in school too! \n\nFirst note the difference between the people in East Egg and the people in West Egg. The people of East Egg are the ones that were born rich (aristocrats) and the ones in West Egg are the people of new money, like Gatsby and Nick himself. Daisy and Tom are of East Egg. Being of old money they are used to being rich and live elegantly and have a good, well-known family background so they don't have to show it off. They are therefor referred to as members of "... a rather distinguished secret society." But Gatsby, being new to wealth, shows it off with lots of parties. He lacks the knowledge built up over generations, of how to speak correctly, how to dress with taste and how not to show off his immense wealth. Gatsby can never be anything more than lower class in manners, speech and behaviour, because people with 'old money' will not give away the secrets of their social code. Note that Gatsby holds his parties to attract Daisy. Funny, isn't it??!! Hope this helps!
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I agree with sfbarbara49. One of the purposes of studying literature is to gain a greater understanding of those that are different from you whether it be race, religion, sexual orientation, age or culture. Ignorance of these subject matters breeds hatred and misunderstanding.\n\nSomeone mentioned teaching his/her children at home about homosexuality. Do you really? If so, how? Should we trust a racist to teach his children about African-Americans and Jews? \n\nThe prevention of academic freedom is a slippery slope that can only lead to further restrictions on civil rights and freedom.
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It's to do with his personality.\nTheres loads of hidden insights in the book and ~Ralph being athletic when the others are not is down to him being active and not lazy.\nThe book is saying that youth spends too much time sitting watching tv and should be outside getting fit and getting experience that would be useful in life on the island.\n\nIf they hadn't been so lazy they'd have been better able to cope and do everything
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lol\nDEFINITELY not the USA!!!!\n\nWHY? Well my guess is that they flies were called FRENCH FLIES before but the you got pissed with the french for not helping you out in iraq taking over and tortuing so you renamed every thig that was french in either liberty or freedom , as in french toast became liberty toast , french fries = freedom fries , therefore french flie = freedom frie ... so all in all freedom flies live in france as the name says.