Lord of the flies: When Merridew finds out there are no adults on the island why does he reject the name Jack?
Because all that was know was know through the eyes of an adult. Now, there is no need to follow what was considered to belong to the grownups...freedom reigns now. As in all cases where the walls are lifted and encasements come donw, the civil unrest begins. While children are often right about many issues the only thing they cannot do is to forcast results of action due to their lack of experience. Some times the end justifies the means.
Lord of the Flies Questions?
Okay, so i have some questions... 1. what role did the adults have in the boys lives? 2. what chapter/page has any mention of sheep or goats? 3. ralph tries to lead the boys with info, and jack with power. how are these bad ways of being a leader but good? 4. when did jack ever twist the rules to the conch shell to get what he wanted? 5. what really is the lord of the flies? (this one really confuses me cuz it doesnt really specifically say?) 6. whats the difference between roger and jack's power? 7. how did roger get away with elbowing jack out of the way? (when jack was scaring samneric) please help. these were really confusing to me!
Quote from Lord of the Flies ...?
I flipped as much as I could through the book. I found: "What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What's grownups going to think? Going off - hunting pigs - letting fires out - and now!" Lord of the Flies, Chapter Five - Beast from Water, page 91. -------- "Grownups know things," said Piggy. "They ain't afraid of the dark. They'd meet and have tea and discuss. Then things 'ud be all right--" "They wouldn't set fire to the island. Or lose--" "They'd build a ship--" The three boys stood in the darkness, striving unsuccessfully to convey the majesty of adult life. "They wouldn't quarrel--" "Or break my specs--" "Or talk about a beast--" "If only they could get a message to us," cried Ralph desperately. "If only they could send us something grownup ... a sign or something." Lord of the Flies, Chapter Five - Beast from Water, page 94. I'm afraid that's all I could find. I hope I've helped!
What would 'Lord of the Flies' have been like if it was a group of only girls rather than boys?
I think there are a couple different perspectives on this. Golding himself said in a speech once that, “women are far superior to men.” Whether or not that means he feels they would have not regressed into the savageness that the boys did is unclear though. It could mean that he simply feels they would have stood a better chance at creating a society than all men.If you look into the story however, there are a couple different pieces that show no group is safe from that savage instinct. In the book, the boys continually say how much better things would be if adults were there on the island. At one point in the book (and this isn’t an exact quote) Piggy or Ralph says they wish grown ups were on the island because grown ups wouldn’t let this happen. “They would sit and have tea, and work things out.” However the boys are on the island because they were shot down by adults who are at war. So adults (which include women) are not sitting down and working things out. The other piece is that when they ask that answer, it comes in the form of a dead fighter pilot- reiterating that earlier answer.
What is the answer to this Lord of the Flies question?
In Lord of the Flies, what is ironic about the fact that the adult who saves the band of boys from their own savagery is a naval commander? what is ironic about the narrator's description of the "semicircle of little boys" that the officer sees? what is ironic about his comment, "fun and games"?
Lord of the flies question: what role do the adults fill in the boys lives? ?
The adults represent civility, reason, and conforming to the rules of society. Once they are absent the boys have no control or order in their lives. They become ritualistic and animalistic and lose all sight of order and civility and fall back to chaos and murder.
What is it about The Lord of the Flies that makes it an easy novel to assign in English classes?
It’s not only about kids who are roughly the same age as the ones reading it, it’s about them acting on their own without adult supervision. I think this idea fascinates young people.This is also an age when youngsters question things like religion and social structures. How did these things come to be? How might they develop if starting from scratch? The novel does touch on such questions.The story involves conflict, cruelty, and the forming of rival cliques or gangs. You may have noticed that these things are a part of childhood and adolescence. This also makes the book relatable.Finally — and unlike the 19th century novels kids may be forced to read — “Lord of the Flies” is written as a modern novel. The action moves along without a lot of unnecessary description or convoluted sentence structure to bog it down.
Who are the best lords, the Hawklords, the Lord of the Flies, or the Lord of the Rings?
I haven’t even heard of the Hawklords, but Lord of the Flies and Lord of the Rings are such totally different things I don’t see how their can be any comparison. Lord of the Rings is an epic fantasy that’s nonetheless written so well and concretely that it scarcely seems like fantasy at all.Lord of the Flies is a powerful but very unpleasant story of a microcosm of society where 2 or 3 groups of schoolboys, isolated by an accident from any adults or adult society, laws, or morals, have to manage entirely on their own. I’ve read it once and don’t want to read it again. Not because it’s badly written, it’s certainly not badly written — but one experience with it was enough.
Lord of the Flies , principal conflict?
Identifying the principal conflict in Lord of the Flies may require a bit of careful consideration. Listed here are three explanations. Type the one that you think best expresses the principal conflict; then, explain your decision. • The principal conflict is person-versus-person. It's essentially Ralph's vision versus Jack's vision of how the boys are to survive. • The principal conflict is person-versus-self. It's all about Ralph's internal struggle against the evil forces that he feels at work within himself. • The principal conflict is person-versus-environment. The boys, including Ralph, the protagonist, are marooned on an island and must survive until they can be rescued. They may fight among themselves, but at heart the story is about the survival of castaways. 2. You were told earlier that a great turning point in the story occurs when the hunters stick a pig's head on a stick and offer it to the beast as a sacrifice. This marks the total capitulation to barbarism among some of the boys. But thinking solely of the plot and the struggle of the protagonist, this isn't the climax of the story. When does the climax occur? Be sure to explain your response. PLZ HELP , THAAANK YOOU USERNAME APPLES FOR ALL THE HELP YOUR TRULY A GOOD PERSON AND FEEL FOR EVERYONE. NOW PLEASE CAN SOME HELP ME WITH THIS.
How is human nature depicted in "Lord of the Flies"?
The human nature depicted in "Lord of the Flies" is that of adolescent and pre-adolescent boys. Adults are depicted only fleetingly, and all the characters are male.At the time that Golding wrote there were many books and magazines telling stories of boys having adventures, often without adult supervision, and how virtues like honesty, cooperation and fair play would bring the protagonist(s) to victory. These stories were heavily inspired by Ballantyne's "The Coral Island", which was written a century before."Lord of the Flies" is a deconstruction of this genre. What Golding pointed out is that real children are not like this. The instincts of an adult human encourage cooperation, since that is where our strengths lie as a species, but the immature human is supported by the efforts of their parents. So the immature human's best advantage is to compete for what is given by adults. Without parents to support them real children do not have the ability to support themselves. Without parents to set limits to their behaviour their competition with other children can get very ugly.The thing that takes Golding's work from being a deconstruction to being a classic of literature is how well he observed the real behaviour of boys. Although it is obvious to anyone who watches a playground to see how boys behave in groups when there are no adults to supervise, nobody really believed it until Golding wrote his book. That kind of observation is part of the author's talent.But the observations are only about boys. Applying them to the rest of humanity is problematic, and there is no evidence in the text that the author intended us to apply it like this.