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Symbolism In Lord Of The Flies

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The Lord of the Flies is a great novel, covering multiple children who have survived a plane crash on an uninhabited, tropical island. The boys must find each other, and establish rule throughout the group. The author, William Golding, uses these young boys as symbols of the common man in the world. There will never be a time when everyone agrees on one outcome. While the boys start out with fairly strong relations, one gets hard feeling for the other, and that boiling pot eventually erupts, causing death throughout the land. Not very many authors could sanely write a book about children murdering each other and find a real meaning to it. Golding uses symbolism throughout his book in a variety of ways. The character named Ralph is pronounced
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