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    rescued. The children started off being ordinary civil 5-10 year olds in the beginning‚ but as the story progressed‚ the children started becoming more and more savage. It started of with slight physical changes like their hair started to grow long and not to point out the obvious‚ there worn out clothes‚ then they became full out savages by killing other children on the island and creating multiple tribes‚ painting their faces‚ and hunting. So‚ as the

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    is a novel about British schoolboys stranded on an island by a plane crash. In the book some of the boys turn into savages‚ but some of them don’t. Jack and Simon are very different characters‚ but they may have more in common one might think. Although Jack turns to a savage in the middle of the book‚ he doesn’t start out that way. Simon‚ on the other hand‚ never turns into a savage‚ but he does go a little crazy. They both start out the same‚ but they both change. Simon is a nice and shy person

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    Although it was proven false‚ American Indians were given the stereotype of being weak and quickly vanishing. Source 2‚ written by Lewis Henry Morgan‚ describes the differences that separated the Indians from others. He also described Indians as “savages.” “The Indian family of America‚ unlike any other existing family‚ exemplified the condition of mankind

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    Indians whom she considered savages‚ and they were dragged from place to place in southern New England. In Rowlandson’s perspective‚ savage refers to an uncivilized‚ or barbaric person or behavior. To Rowlandson‚ the Indians exhibit savage behavior by dragging her from her home‚ killing many English people in cruel and unimaginable ways‚ and exposing them to living in the wilderness. Although in order to survive‚ Mary depends on her belief on God‚ she also becomes more savage in her captivity; she witnesses

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    innocent boy without justification‚ is ultimately responsible for the calamity that is Simon’s death. Roger also shifts from his status as an English boy to a savage over the course of the novel‚ as he triggers this de-evolvement by throwing stones at the boys‚ commends Jack’s cruelness as a leader‚ and ultimately becomes the most brutal of the savages‚ bringing about the death of Piggy

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    Frank Savage was a high-ranking military general with an authoritarian style leadership. Savage was all about doing thing by S.O.P. (standard operating procedure)‚ doing things by the book. Savage wanted to make sure that all subordinates knew that things were going to be held accountable to his strict‚ authoritarian style of leadership. When Savage arrives at Archbury military base after taking Keith’s position‚ he is allowed to pass through the security entrance with out showing credentials.

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    Savage or Civilized The Second Discourse‚ written by Jean Jaques Rousseau in 1754‚ discusses the human state of nature. This work compares savaged men and civilized men‚ mostly in physical terms. Rousseau aimed to find the source of inequality in the human race‚ by stripping man down to his animalistic nature. He begins by discussing how a natural man uses his instincts for self preservation‚ like an animal. After this‚ he mentions how civilized men tend to compare themselves to each other‚

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    themselves. Being on a deserted island with no adults or supervision‚ the boys slowly start to turn more and more savage each day. The boys had some unity and order at first but as time went on the island tore them apart and turned them against each other. Ultimately‚ the characters being young school boys ends up affecting the plot‚ setting‚ and theme as the young boys begin to turn to savages and feel terror about not being saved‚ the beast‚ and also killing each other. The setting is not so much changed

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    the main group and start a new one based on hunting rather than being rescued‚ and become savages‚ throwing the society into war.

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    behavior‚ humans have the capacity to be savage ‚ whereas‚ Shelley‚ on the other hand argues that humans are born without evil rather society and experience cause humans to be savage. In Lord of the Flies‚ a group of boys are left on an

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