The Kite Runner And Lord Of The Flies Comparison Essay
You could read many books throughout your life and never notice how some books may compare to each other. The Lord of the Flies and The Kite Runner are both books that have an interesting plot and you can’t help but feel emotionally attached to both of these stories. The Lord of the Flies and The Kite Runner both experience emotional battles caused by bullying and physical wars that affect their homes but the content of their own battles are different. Both of these books have main characters that face their own battles throughout the story. These battles are usually caused by an antagonist that opposes the main characters and their ideas. In The Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, Jack questions Ralph’s authority as chief and fights
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The school boys from The Lord of the Flies are flown away from their homes to get away from the war that is happening there. However, they end up crashing onto an uninhabited island where the boys slowly start to become savages. Later in the book, they are rescued when Jack sets the whole island on fire. To get rid of their battles and struggles on the island, they want to return back home. The last sentence of the book tells us of the beginning of their adventure, “He turned away to give them time to pull themselves together; and waited, allowing his eyes to rest on the trim cruiser in the distance” (Golding 202). In The Kite Runner, Baba and Amir sneak out of their country to get away from the war that is happening around their home. Amir and Baba leave their home in Afghanistan and fly out to America, but Amir’s guilty conscious from when Hassan was raped stayed with him. Later in the book, Amir ends up going back to Afghanistan to try to let go of his guilty conscious when his trusted adult friend, Rahim Khan, tells him, “Come. There is a way to be good again” (Hosseini 202). Both Amir and most of the school boys end up traveling back home to get rid of their guilty conscious’. Wars have affected the homes of the characters in both of the
The school boys from The Lord of the Flies are flown away from their homes to get away from the war that is happening there. However, they end up crashing onto an uninhabited island where the boys slowly start to become savages. Later in the book, they are rescued when Jack sets the whole island on fire. To get rid of their battles and struggles on the island, they want to return back home. The last sentence of the book tells us of the beginning of their adventure, “He turned away to give them time to pull themselves together; and waited, allowing his eyes to rest on the trim cruiser in the distance” (Golding 202). In The Kite Runner, Baba and Amir sneak out of their country to get away from the war that is happening around their home. Amir and Baba leave their home in Afghanistan and fly out to America, but Amir’s guilty conscious from when Hassan was raped stayed with him. Later in the book, Amir ends up going back to Afghanistan to try to let go of his guilty conscious when his trusted adult friend, Rahim Khan, tells him, “Come. There is a way to be good again” (Hosseini 202). Both Amir and most of the school boys end up traveling back home to get rid of their guilty conscious’. Wars have affected the homes of the characters in both of the