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               Order and organization collapse on the island due to the savages and their obsession with hunting. Chapter 3, page 51.                 The madness came into his eyes again.                "I thought I might kill."                "But you didn't." [...]                "You wouldn't care to help with the shelters, I suppose?"                "We want meat--" The context of this quotation is when Jack gets back from trying to kill a pig, but he does not succeed at killing the pig. Ralph is upset because he was working hard all day trying to keep order by building the shelter that the boys needed. Ralph sees that Jack's obsession with killing pigs has the potential to destroy them, and eventually does.

               My Thanksgiving Break was not all that eventful. A friend and I both took Drivers Ed. We started Saturday and through to Wednesday. We both passed, even though we stressed for hours that we wouldn't.                On Thanksgiving Day, I went over to my sister's house in Plaquemine. My brother-in-law, Blake, and his whole family joined our family to celebrate the day. The next day I went to see a movie and hang out with some friends, and then I went to a soccer practice. That weekend, my family and I started decorating our house for Christmas.

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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.  Once there was this and that; and now--and the ship had gone. [... Jack refusing to give Piggy the floor when he has the conch...] "The rules!" shouted Ralph.  "You're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?" Ralph summoned his wits. "Because the rules are the only thing we've got!" But Jack was shouting against him. "Bollocks to the rules!  We're strong--we hunt!  If there's a beast, we'll hunt it down!  We'll close in and beat and beat and beat--!" (91)                This paragraph shows that the boys were forgetting the organized society that they knew before they were deserted on the island. The boys civilization was breaking apart. As the civilization was breaking apart, the boys lost organization and order. This is significant because this breaking apart of the society leads to Piggy and Simon's deaths and the ultimate shift of power from ...

               Henry had just found out his father died. His father was in the air force; he was deployed for 4 months. Henry was getting so excited to finally see his dad after 4 months. The night Henry's father was supposed to come home, Henry's mother, Mary, got a phone call. Mary was hysterical and could not control her sobs. Through the river of tears coming down her face, she had to explain to her son that his father would not be coming home.                Henry slammed his door, then locked it shut. He did not want to be bothered by anyone. Henry looked out the window, his nose almost touching the glass. He watched as the sky grew darker. Raindrops started slowly but progressively began to rain down harder. Henry couldn't believe he was never to see his father again. Symbolism: The sky growing darker symbolizes Henry's emotion of sadness and his growing depression. The rain symbolizes Henry's tea...

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               This weekend was really fun. I started it off with a trip to the movies with some of my friends. Of course, I had to ask for my mom's countenance first, to which she replied: "Yes, of course!" The movie, overall, was not that great. I could not really follow the plot.                 Right after the movies, I went to a friend's house to go ice skating. We all got dressed in our warm leggings and sweatshirts, even though it was about eighty degrees out, and we headed to the ice skating rink. Once we got on the ice, it was really cold and a few of us were vulnerable to toppling over because of our inexperience with ice skating. When we finally finished our ice skating, we went back to my friend's house and watched movies all night until we fell asleep.

               My reading focus follows the relationship between Jack and Ralph. Throughout the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding their relationship has been quite the dynamic one. Jack and Ralph have moments of utmost hatred for each other, for example when Jack abandons the group in Chapter Eight because all the kids took Ralph's side. But Golding still allows for little scenes that shine a light on their friendship. For example, when Jack offers to explore the cave with Ralph on page 106.                Jack and Raph start out as friends. Their relationship is sort of built on their annoyance with Piggy. As the book progresses, though, Ralph and Jack start competing more with leadership roles. Jack is a bit jealous of Ralph and Ralph's chief status. This is expressed in Chapter Eight when Jack abandons the group of kids to hunt and survive on his own because no one voted him to be chief. ...