Term Papers on Lord Of The Flies

Term Paper Title	Lord Of The Flies
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# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	2.86

Lord Of The Flies

In Lord of the Flies, a novel by William Golding, an airplane load of school-age boys are stranded on a deserted tropical island after their plane is accidentally shot down during World War II.  Since there are no adults, the boys try to organize themselves with a chief, hunters, and a few people to watch a signal fire for any ships that might pass.  Factions develop with the original group and the hunters.  The child who is chosen to be the chief is Ralph.  As the leader of the hunters, Jack, creates his own group, Ralph grows and matures as a result of his internal conflicts.
At the start of the novel, Ralph is very immature.  Like most children, he is excited to find out that there are no adults to watch him and tell him he couldn't do something.  At the moment Ralph was told this information from his friend Piggy, he takes off all of his clothes and starts to swim in a pool of water on the beach.  When Ralph does this, he is like a child left alone to play his favorite games.  He does not care about anything at first because he has a strong belief that his father, who is in the navy, will send someone to rescue them.
In the meantime, Ralph and Piggy find a conch shell.  If you blow into a conch shell a certain way, in makes a loud, low-pitched sound.  Piggy tells Ralph about this, and Ralph uses the sound from the conch to call an assembly.  All different aged boys appear on the shore where Ralph blows the conch.  When it is thought that all of the boys are there, they begin to have a meeting.  First, they elect a chief.  They choose Ralph as their leader over a boy who was in the choir and his old school named Jack.  After Jack losses, Ralph makes Jack the leader of the hunters.  As Ralph tries to make law and build his society, all of the others seem to loose interest in helping one another and go off on their own and play.   This happens when Ralph tries to build...

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