Important Quotes From Lord Of The Flies

While savagery is becoming more apparent, civilization still remains with the boys. The boys using logic, have a meeting to discuss problems. The major concern being, the hunters let the rescue fire go out. Ralph, being one of the few still connecting with be rescued exclaims, “don 't you want to be rescued?”(Golding 102).

As it is known, a beast is frequently associated with fear. As the English boys are on the island that they have run away to, it is shown that they encounter things that petrify them. Found in Document A is that the boys externalize their fears into the figure of a beast. Also stated in Document A, is that a mother’s job is to “dispel the terrors of the unknown”. In other words,

They externalize these fears into the figure of a ‘beast.’” (Doc A) So, without mothers, the boys were forced to handle their fears without any comforting. According to Rosenfield, the boys had to externalize their fear. Externalize is a psychologic term that means to transfer an inside feeling onto something of oneself.

Another example was when Superman’s brakes failed on landing when they were coming back. “By the time Phil got the plane stopped, the bomber was three feet short of the runway’s end” (81). Showing us yet again where your mental state of mind is heavily assaulted and where luck is a very important asset for survival. Afterwards, when they were on a mission and one of the crews man had been severally injured when he felt that, “the urgency of the moment drove the pain into a distant place” (100).

This is about some English boys that were stuck in the uninhabited island due to their plane being shot from the sky. The boys tried to govern themselves but failed due to the unknown and fear of the beasts. There are a few key moments when the boys mention the beasts appearing on the island. But is it a real beast or something else?

He made a lot of mistakes based on arrogance. I don’t admire him at all for his courage nor his noble ideas. Really, I think he was just plain crazy,” shows that Shaun believes Chris had no common sense in his doing for leaving society for the wild. I agree with Callarman’s position of thinking “ he had no common sense” and that he was “bright and Ignorant” because Chris thinks he did not have much to offer in his society, ditched all his possessions to take a trip into the Alaskan Wilderness and did not have much common sense or survival skills. Chris McCandless was very courageous for ditching all his possessions to take a trip in the wilderness.

In Edwin Arlington Robinson’s “Richard Cory,” there are many aspects of irony in the poem. The poem is about a man, named Richard Cory, who seems to have the perfect life. He has good looks and a lot money, it sounds like he has it all. The people are not as wealthy as Richard Cory, and some are considered poor. Although Richard Cory has a higher status than everyone else, he still talks and mingles with them.

The setting of the book Hatchet is symbolic. The place that story is happening is somewhere in the Northern Canadian forest. The protagonist Brian is stranded in the Canadian woods because the plane crashes into a lake. In Canadian woods, lots of events, mostly hardship, happen to Brian.

As soon as Prince Prospero knew about the disease he immediately tried to build a wall to keep it out, because he didn’t want to face it himself. The Prince just wanted to shut it out. This is very negative because it didn’t solve any problems, it just postponed them. Readers can see that Prince Prospero is a scared and selfish man,

The story Lord of the Flies is a good representation of how people and especially young people can influence each other in many ways. This can either be positive or negative. In this case it has turned out negative as the boys have constantly tried to seek power and use fear as a tool to get that desperately wanted power. William Golding paints a very harsh picture of humanity. He shows that living under the rules of civilization is not part of our human nature.

Trying to keep a poodle groomed is a lot harder due to their curly hair, they often get things stuck in their hair along with attracting dirt easier. Tilly’s hair is smoother, straighter, and longer which is not hard to keep her looking like a beautiful puppy she is. Although they are both popular breeds, Toy Poodles are usually a little more expensive to purchase than a Maltese. To me, both breeds are worth their price. Since they are both small breeds they both have a small litter, but Maltese often have fewer puppies than a poodle.

This dehumanized the Jewish because they could see and smell people dying and they were not able to do anything to defend them. People being thrown to the flames had no clothes (they had no respect for Jewish religion). Another example of dehumanizing is when Ellie’s father is being hit to death. “ Eliezer, my son, come here… I want to tell you something… Only to you... Come don’t leave me alone… Eliezer” (p. 14) this shows how Ellie had lost respect for his father.

He got upset with them because keeping a fire burning was more important than hunting for pigs. This was more important to their survival because the smoke from the fire was a signal so they could be rescued. Ralph was mad how they hunters weren’t able to keep the fire going when the ship was near since that was an opportunity to get off the island. Ralph believed that if the fire was still burning, the ship would see them and rescue them. “Neither of the boys screamed but the grip of their arms tightened and their mouths grew peaked.”

In the novel Lord of the Flies, it is obvious that the character Jack is the savage compared to all the other boys on the island. Jack is the cause of all the arguments and death that will later occur on the island. Many of the boys on the island are scared of Jack when he acts cruel and selfish. This makes them join his group, so they don't have to worry about getting hurt. During a group meeting Jack says “We shall take fire from the others,” (Golding 161).

The context of this quote is when Jack wants to go hunt the beastie and Ralph is timid to go, because they believe that the ferocious, wild creature quite possibly exists. Jack asks if Ralph is frightened in a way that makes he himself look confident that the spears merely made of wood will be capable of protecting them. Ralph admits to being scared and they end up going on this hunt. Although the “beastie” is only a mental scare, Jack still is a completely different person when he assumes the role of the hunter.