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World War 2 Lord Of The Flies Comparison Essay

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The story Lord of the Flies by William Golding is very similar to the events in World War II also, the storyline of Lord of the Flies is comparable to the timeline from the World War II. The two main characters that make Lord of the Flies similar to World War II is Jack and Piggy, you will find out later why . Each person in the book shows a resembles to a person or thing that happened in the World War II. The main focus on this essay is to show the similarities or comparison between the book and World War II. Lord of Flies is known to be a fiction story of World War II, written a short while after the War ended. Most of the characters relate or symbolize people in the War.
One similarity that Lord of the Flies has to World War II is the way Jack's character is and by that I mean that he’s character is very similar to Hitler in a way, he steps up and promises to help out the littluns when they are in need. Hitler also did this with Germany to try and become their leader. Another reason why Jack is really similar to Hitler is the way they both act, they both blamed other people and or things for the reason why everything was going wrong at the moment. Hitler blamed the Jews for why Germany was in such bad condition, meanwhile Jack blamed the beast and how it frightened almost all of …show more content…

But when the Jews were in the camps they also wished for someone to save or rescue them in which I believe was the United States. In the book they always when they weren’t stranded in the island grownups would always help them in need. The Jews were later on freed because Germany lost the war . For Lord of the Flies it was the naval officer. But in the end Piggy and Simon died. That is another similarity because not everyone came out alive like the

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