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William Golding's Lord Of The Flies

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“Lord of the Flies,” the Nobel Prize for Literature laureate William Golding masterpiece. The story is about the Third World War, the aircraft flew south from England and the airplane was crashed, landing on an uninhabited island. A group of children not accompanied by adults, only a small group of age-matched partners, beach and the island's creatures. In many children must have a leader, but at a plenary meeting, Ralph decided, who holds conch, who will have right to speak. So we ordered in accordance with the assignment to implement, and some people go in search of food, some people go to pick up twigs ignited by fireworks when the signal for help, there are those who build houses. Such laws dull days give some children headed to Jack …show more content…

He always thought that only they maintain a fire on the island, the smoke will rise into the sky let through the island vessels or plane to learn about their plight, so they have will be rescued. Ralph handheld conch become the sole and voice communication tool. But the power he possesses but very fragile, vulnerable to difficult to maintain a survival fire. A 12-year-old child, and we should have a naive and childlike, but he lost. “He was old enough, twelve years and a few months, to have lost the prominent tummy of childhood and not yet old enough for adolescence to have made him awkward.”(Page10) He thinks he already is not that children with childhood, he has 12 years old, he is old, he lost his innocence of the others …show more content…

At first, Jack very happy without adult control, and to a free uninhabited island, he wants to have everything in power. Because in the previous life, he had been poetry class leader, he has a strong desire for power. In an environment where no adults, children like mad cow, want out of the fence run wild. When Ralph convenes a meeting when the owner decided to let Ralph leader of the uninhabited island, Jack is very angry, he thinks his ability and he should not be regulated over Ralph. Although he is not satisfied everyone such a decision, but he sometimes cannot deprive Ralph rights. He also is a simple, fear to the future and the unknown, but when he learned to hunt, he changed. When he first met the pig, he is afraid that. “ ‘I was choosing a place,’ said Jack. ‘ I was just waiting for a moment to decided where to stab him.”(Page31) This sentence was confirmed Jack first met piglet he was afraid to kill him, which is his own heart to find an explanation. But Jack soon obsessed with hunting and concentrate on the task.“Jack stood there, streaming with brown earth, stained by all the vicissitudes of a day’s hunting.”(Page 41) From the start, Jack is full of interest for hunting and he learned to hunt in a short time and his desire to kill the pig and has become the new leader. In this slowly changing, Jack from an innocent child into a hunter and inner desire blood barbarian. Jack think: hunting can eat

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