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    that Hayy was born on an uninhabited island‚ not from parents but‚ rather‚ from clay fermentation. The author emphasizes the importance of the island’s perfect geographic location and climate in order to support the possibility of spontaneous human generation without the need for a mother and father. According to the second account‚ Hayy was the illegitimate son of a princess who was the daughter of a ruler of a large inhabited island next to the uninhabited island. In order to save the baby (Hayy)

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    boys end up on a deserted island they initially act civilized. In the beginning of the novel their plane crashed and was dragged out to sea‚ leaving the boys stranded on an unfamiliar island. Because of the atom bomb’s devastation‚ it’s likely that no one knows where the boys are at. Piggy and Ralph were the first ones to meet up and they figure out a way out of the jungle and find a beach. Ralph finds a conch shell which he uses to bring the entire survivor on the island together. Between the boys

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    After Crusoe’s escape from there‚ the setting moves to the Canary Islands‚ until a Portuguese ship arrives. For the next few years‚ the novel is set in Brazil. Then Crusoe embarks on his ill-fated voyage. After the shipwreck‚ Crusoe washes ashore on an uninhabited island‚ where Crusoe spends the next twenty-eight years of his life; most of the novel takes place on the island during these years. After Crusoe is rescued from the island‚ the setting moves to England‚ via Lisbon and the land route through

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    struggle for society and survival after their plane crashes on a deserted island. The boys slip into many forms of government while trapped. Their unstable government contributes to the ultimate fall from civilization to savagery. Golding’s characters‚ Jack‚ Ralph‚ and the littluns‚ carry attributes of the many forms of government and how the different types‚ totalitarianism‚ democracy‚ and socialism‚ affected their success on the island. Ralph instills a sense of concordance and structure in his group‚

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    is the conflict between civilization and chaos that is naturally embedded in all of the characters. All people hold hope of success in life and through the story of the Lord of the Flies it tells about hope of children being rescued on a deserted island. Throughout the story we see their struggles to remain a unified group despite the savagery that erupts among them. Within

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    William Golding used a group of boys stranded on a tropical island to illustrate the malicious nature of mankind. Lord of the Flies dealt with changes that the boys underwent as they gradually adapted to the isolated freedom from society. Three main characters depicted different effects on certain individuals under those circumstances. Jack Merridew began as the arrogant and self-righteous leader of a choir. The freedom of the island allowed him to further develop the darker side of his personality

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    Lord of the Flies is a dystopian novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author William Golding about a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results. Its stances on the already controversial subjects of human nature and individual welfare versus the common good earned it position 68 on the American Library Association’s list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of 1990–1999.[2] Published in 1954‚ Lord of the Flies was Golding’s first

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    “The story takes place in WW2‚the story takes place on an island. The book begins with how they’re a bunch of british kids on an island. They were on a plane trying to fly away from war when a plane shot it down sending one half of the plane down in flames. That when Ralph finds himself by himself on a beach near a jungle this is when We meet Piggy who is chubby‚ and has Thick glasses that he can’t see without it. When the two boys met they discuss about the plane and what happened. They wandered

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    William Golding”. This book is about a group of boys that have gotten stranded on a deserted island‚ and try hard to not argue‚ but just cannot stop fighting. The conch represents civilization and rules; But‚ as the story goes on the conch represents destruction because it breaks into thousands of pieces. [ Pattern 1a] The conch represents rules during their time on the island. Some of the rules on the island have to do with the conch. Golding describes “Him with the shell...Let him be chief with the

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    British school boys that get stranded on an island how will they survive with no knowledge on survival.their plane gets shot down and they crash land “we was attacked”. So they got shot down judging by what the boys say which is crazy also how they survived. The author of the book is William Golding‚ the book was released 1945 it’s based on school boys who are going on a trip but crash land on an island. This book shows you how people can change on a specific situation how we can lose our civilization

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