Compare and Contrast of Gilligan s Island and Lord of The Flies
Compare and Contrast of Gilligan’s Island and Lord of The Flies
The television show Gilligan’s Island is a comedy just for general entertainment, part of why it’s humorous is Gilligan is always acting goofy and messing things up. The novel Lord of The Flies is a serious book where the children are in a grave situation. Lord of The Flies is about survival, lives are at stake, that is what makes the novel serious. Lord of the Flies and Gilligan’s Island were made around the same time period with the novels birth in 1954 and the television series premier in the 1960’s. The novel Lord of The Flies and the television show Gilligan’s Island are similar in the way they both involve a conch shell and had a vote to elect a leader and different because both works made a fire using a different technique and are also different in how they ended up on the island.
The television show Gilligan’s Island and the novel Lord of The Flies have many similarities that include that both works had a conch shell and both had a vote for a leader. In Lord of The Flies, at the beginning, the conch shell was used to call other possible people on the island. When Ralph and Piggy ended up on the island they were all alone, though they knew there were other people. So their solution to find them was to blow through the conch shell, the sound was said to be very loud as it states in the book “ He laid the conch against his lips, took a deep breath and blew once more. The note boomed again: and then at his firmer pressure, the note, fluking up an octave, became a strident blare more penetrating than before.” A minute or so later a child appeared out of the dense forest. In a fairly short amount of time, everybody would be gathered together. In Gilligan’s Island there were multiple conch shells that were also used for communication. They were specifically used to signal if one were in danger. The conch came in handy one time against the “tribe” when the characters thought they were being
The television show Gilligan’s Island is a comedy just for general entertainment, part of why it’s humorous is Gilligan is always acting goofy and messing things up. The novel Lord of The Flies is a serious book where the children are in a grave situation. Lord of The Flies is about survival, lives are at stake, that is what makes the novel serious. Lord of the Flies and Gilligan’s Island were made around the same time period with the novels birth in 1954 and the television series premier in the 1960’s. The novel Lord of The Flies and the television show Gilligan’s Island are similar in the way they both involve a conch shell and had a vote to elect a leader and different because both works made a fire using a different technique and are also different in how they ended up on the island.
The television show Gilligan’s Island and the novel Lord of The Flies have many similarities that include that both works had a conch shell and both had a vote for a leader. In Lord of The Flies, at the beginning, the conch shell was used to call other possible people on the island. When Ralph and Piggy ended up on the island they were all alone, though they knew there were other people. So their solution to find them was to blow through the conch shell, the sound was said to be very loud as it states in the book “ He laid the conch against his lips, took a deep breath and blew once more. The note boomed again: and then at his firmer pressure, the note, fluking up an octave, became a strident blare more penetrating than before.” A minute or so later a child appeared out of the dense forest. In a fairly short amount of time, everybody would be gathered together. In Gilligan’s Island there were multiple conch shells that were also used for communication. They were specifically used to signal if one were in danger. The conch came in handy one time against the “tribe” when the characters thought they were being