Summary Of Lord Of The Flies - 1541 Words

Kevin Luu AP Lit-B3 Ms.Anders Summer Novel Reading Questions 1.Golding,William. Lord of the Flies. Faber and Faber,1954 2.The title Lord of the Flies is referring to Beelzebub which is another name for the devil. This title is fitting for the story because typically flies surround something that is filthy or dirty,and in the story the boys on the island progressively become more dirty as the story progresses which reflects the innate evil that is in all of them. 3.The boys who are marooned on the island isolated from the rest of society split into two distinct groups,those who are civilized attempting to form a makeshift living space and those who give into their more primal instincts and form a hunter tribe. 4.Ralph is twelve years†¦show more content†¦7a.†Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man s heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy.† When all of the boys are first marooned on the island they are initially all innocent and fairly civil as opposed to towards the end once they are rescued from the island by the navy after they have grown savage as the result of all their hardships also leading to them losing their innocence B.This ending is fitting because now that Ralph has witnessed the evil within everyone’s hearts his perception of man is forever changed even as he is being rescued from the island.What he has seen on that island will remain with him for the rest of his life.†As time had come to pass,so had a sunrise,however there was no light,for all that was left was the darkness of man’s heart† 8.This novel is based upon the workings of the heart because it describes a story where a group of innocent twelve year old boys from England who couldn’t do any harm back home split into two distinct groups on the island,which were those who attempted to maintain an order and the others who followed their more primal instincts such as bloodlust and violence. As time goes on Ralph and Jack become even more cemented in their separate roles as the keeper of order and the feral hunter of the island. 9.I believe I wouldn’t identify with either Ralph orShow MoreRelatedLord of the Flies Summary1001 Words   |  5 PagesSUMMARY It is very subtly indicated that the book takes place in the midst of an unspecified nuclear war. Some are ordinary students, while others arrive as a coherent body under an established leader (a choir). Most appear never to have encountered each other before. The book portrays their descent into savagery; left to themselves in a paradisiacal country, far from modern civilization, the well-educated children regress to a primitive state. 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