Ridge Olson 2nd Period 10-27-16 Sanity and learning from mistakes are very consequential for survival While situations in castaway and lord of the flies are fictional, both stories take the reader deeper into learning and sanity aspect of survival. In lord of the flies the kids lose there sanity and all of them almost die. While in castaway he keeps his sanity and gets off the island. In survival situations learning is very crucial. In the story lord of the flies as well as in the movie castaway a lot of learning is portrayed. For instance at the beginning of the story the boys cannot think of a way to start a fire. But by learning they find out that they can use piggy's glasses as a type of fire starter. When the boys first …show more content…
start out on the island they want to hunt but do not know where to start or what to do. After a little bit on the island they learn how to hunt pigs and make spears out of sticks. In the lord of the flies simon sees a pig's head that is planted on a stick into the earthly soil. Simon then begins to hear the pig talk to him. Now we all know dead animals cannot talk but simon is probably undergoing a mental hallucination. Simon is not in the right mind at this moment. His sanity has passed into oblivion. He is not sane anymore and it is very preeminent to stay sane in survival situation. Also in lord of the flies when they first arrive on the island they get a fire brewing and then they let the fire get out of hand and a huge fire starts burning the island but eventually gets put out. Then towards the end of the book the kids light the entire island on fire on purpose so they obviously do not learn from their mistakes. The kids are not smart enough to learn from the idiotic mistakes they made and it almost cost them their life. Furthermore, in castaway chuck uses many ways to keep his sanity and learn from his mistakes.
There is one part in the movie where chuck is on the island and is trying to catch fish with a spear he sharpened. He can not hit a single fish, but with trial and error he learns from his mistakes and after a while he is killing fish like nobody's business and it helps him survive longer. Also, there is a part in the movie where chuck is trying to peel and crack a coconut by slamming it on a rock. Well while performing this tasks he happens to receive a large laceration on his hand. He yells and screams and uses his shirt to stop the bleeding. After that he learns and goes much slower when he is slamming it and controls his positioning when slamming the coconut on the rock. The last crucial scene in this movie is when the packages from the crash show up on the shore of the beach. He opens the packages to find a volleyball and on this volleybal it says wilson. Well when he opens it he uses his blood to make a face on it. He talks to this volleyball as if it is a real human being. This helps so that he can't keep keen with his english and not end up a crazed lunatic when he gets saved. Chuck also keeps track of the days that he has been on the island and does math with those numbers to also keep his mind keen so he isnt
crazy. In conclusion, this book and this movie differ in the results of what can happen when your mind isn't keen and when you don't learn from your mistakes. In lord of the flies the kids never learned from the wrongs that they did and they suffered for it and some people died. While in castaway chuck kept his sanity and learned from his mistakes and survived on an island for 4 years by himself. He also battled with depression and almost killed himself. But by using the methods that he did he survived. Points Formatting (6 pts. each) 6 Final Paper in correct format (typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12 pt) 5 Few to no errors (GRUMPS) (4 = -1; 6 = -2; 8 = -3; etc) Paragraph 1 (5 pts. each) 5 Thesis statement in first paragraph 0 Introduction using one of methods stated (anecdote, example, question, quotation, dialectic, image, statistic) 4 Argument presented in first paragraph Body Paragraphs (3 pts. each) 3 Contains applicable topic sentences 3 Contains appropriate transitions 0 Contains logical, insightful supporting quotes or examples (total of 3 quotes required from LOTF) and 3 examples from movie/other book 0 Sets up and explains quotes and ties information back to the thesis Conclusion (5 pts.) 5 Extends essay’s parameters or demonstrates significance of subject in larger context Style Issues (2 pts. each) 1 Intriguing, appropriate title 2 Meaningfully varied sentence structure and length 2 Consistently, appropriately elevated vocabulary 50 pts. + ____36________ = ______86________
In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies and Tina Fey’s Mean Girls, both authors reveal similar symbolism and settings that can relate to reality and todays society. Golding and Fey show symbolism through the lack of clothing and how it can guide another being to make assumptions of another’s personality. They unravel setting through the world of teenagers and children that create trouble amongst the places they inhabit and their surrounding areas alongside explaining how it can heavily impact the direction in which society travels. So, this exposes how clothing tells about another’s personality and how a world with teenagers and children governing themselves can lead to a corrupt and destructive society.
I Hope To Survive “I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best” as Benjamin Disraeli says. In the novel Lord of The Flies by William Golding, A group of boys get trapped on an island during WWII and they have to figure out a way to survive on their own, inevitably they end up killing two of the audience’s favorite characters, and become savage until they get rescued. The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, is about a boy who never loses hope and goes on his personal journey to find treasure in the Egyptian Pyramids. In both books, there is a visible recurring theme of survival and hope, though they may be used in different ways. Both of the books explore how the characters survive.
Initially in both stories there is an incident that traps a group of males in a secluded, unknown location. They are forced to work together to survive. As the stories progress we see an instance in each where someone threatens to kill another person. For example, in The 33, one man threatens to murder another man because he uses his iPod. One of the main differences we see is the outcome of the situations. In The 33, no on dies or is murdered. However, in Lord of the Flies, two murders are committed, with one of those confirmed as intentional. In Lord of the Flies Roger purposefully pushes a boulder that strikes Piggy’s head, “The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee, “ which killed him stone dead. Their situations are also similar in the way that they are stuck in a location unknown by the outside world. (Transition word) These situations are different because in The 33 the outside world eventually discovers the groups whereabouts and the challenge is extracting them from the underground cavity. On the other hand, in Lord of the Flies the group is stranded on an island and their location isn’t discovered until the end of the story. Therefore we can see many similarities in the groups’ situations, but several differences in the
The context behind the author of Lord of the Flies is significant to the meaning of the novel, it shapes the decisions behind what occurs in the text, Willian Goudlings’s participation in World War One, conflicted his feelings towards human kind and their destructive and evil notions.
Many works of literature inspire new works to be made every day. From things as old as beowulf to the many shakespeare plays, current day writers keep pulling ideas from the classics to create their own stories. Because of this, many older works of literature are still relevant today. The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is more current than ever with allusion from Popular television shows, music that is heard on the radio and the newest blockbuster movie. The many allusions in modern day literature and works of art to lord of the flies are too numerous to count.
In Fahrenheit 451 and Lord of the Flies, the characters are alike in some ways. In Fahrenheit 451 the characters are Montag, Faber, Clarisse, and Beatty. In Lord of the Flies the characters are Ralph, Piggy, Simon and Jack. Jack and Beatty, Ralph and Montag, Simon and Clarisse, and Piggy and Faber all have some similarities. Jack and beatty both want to take control over everyone and sells fear. Ralph and Montag want to move on and find a better plan to make everything work. Simon and Clarisse are Christ-figures. Piggy and Faber are very intellectual and are wise men. The books may contain different story lines but have very similar types of characters.
Two of the most engaging, thrilling and Insidious novels of all time. Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a powerful story about a group of young boys whom are hoisted in a situation of harsh survival with no adult assistance after their plane crashes in the middle of an ocean. The group of boys vacillating from around ages 6-12 although the exact years are not confirmed. The boys begin to reconstruct a society, a leader is quickly named, Ralph, he is a good leader and is one of the older boys in the group. They set up a system in which only the person with the conch shell may speak. That rule was quickly demolished when the rebel of the group, Jack, breaks off from the group with a large amount following. The boys quickly turn on each other and what started as a successful society turned into a corrupt, and destructive society. Jack’s group is called the hunter, they pick off the other boys one by one. First Simon, an innocent young boy, then a cruel death to a boy named Piggy. Piggy was one of the few boys that had morals. Then as Jack’s hunting assembly were in pursuit for the final man of the more ethical group, Ralph, help comes, just in time to save Ralphs life. Now Life of Pi by Yann Martel, is also an extremely powerful novel that is creatively wrote. It is a story told in first person by a man named Pi Patel. The story is about a horrific situation that occurs on the Pacific Ocean. As Pi and his family were on a large ship they carried many animals from their zoo. The voyage turn wrong quickly. The ship sank and Pi’s family died in the wreck, but Pi, Richard Parker and a few animals managed to make it to the lifeboat. The journey began for Pi. He must overcome many obstacles, taming a tiger, fighting off mental beasts...
People can do anything that involves fear including turning on someone and attempting to kill them. William Golding wrote Lord of the Flies in 1952 during the cold war. This affects the novel because children were often killed during war.This novel is important because the novel shows how the boys communicate and survive on the island. Lord of the Flies is about a group of boys on an island without any adults. In order to survive, they will have to work as a team. In the essay, I will talk about how Jack and Ralph comparison, how they have changed, and there purpose in the novel.
In the novel, Lord of the Flies, The boys have just landed on the island are have gathered together. They talk about what they need to survive and how they will be rescued, when the meeting comes to an end Ralph mentions that, “there’s another thing. [They] can help them find [them]. If a ship comes near the island they may not notice [them]. So [they] must make smoke on top of the mountain. [They] must make a fire” (Golding 38). In the quote, the first assembly is happening right after the crash. They all group together and decide what their priorities are so they can get rescued. They all decided that they need fire, shelters, and food. It is in this very quote that survival is what drives one’s decisions because even after a plane crash, the surviving boys gather up and decide what they need to survive with. No matter what has happened, they all had the will to overpower the traumatic experience and decide and act upon their decisions. Along the same lines, in the movie, Castaway, Chuck Noland also demonstrates that survival is what influence one’s decisions. In movie Castaway, Chuck is seen doing many things that show how the will to survive impacts his decisions and actions. This is demonstrated when it is his first few days on the island, he
When placed on a deserted island, a group of strangers banded together to try to survive. They decided on a leader, problem-solved, fought off a beast, and formed their own society, even if it was somewhat flawed. This was the situation in the famous TV show, Lost. The Lord of the Flies and Lost are similar in these many different ways, with the exception that the show featured a tribe of adults instead of children. That just proves how difficult it is to maintain order in a society; even the adults struggled with keeping it peaceful and civilized. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding presents a broken society of savage boys fighting one another to suggest that man’s capacity for evil is brought out by the need for power and control.
In his novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding describes Jack as someone who promotes unity, someone who is skilled at manipulating people, and someone who idolizes violent actions. Jack has a lot in common with the World War II German dictator, Adolf Hitler, who had also demonstrated desires for unity, the manipulation of others and increased violence. All these similarities between them led to them destroying their society.
When the doors to the port-a-potty washed up on the shore and Chuck began organizing his escape one would argue that this was Chuck’s self-actualization moment. He eventually finishes the raft and sets off into the ocean. One morning a storm hits, sending Wilson off the raft. With the majority of his raft destroyed, his food gone along with Wilson gone, Chuck falls back down the hierarchy. Luckily he was found and nursed back to health. The movie leaves off with Chuck standing in the middle of a crossroad deciding what he wants to do with his new found freedom and having yet to reach self-actualization again.
In both novels, the main characters are isolated from any form of true civilisation. In Lord of the Flies, the boys find themselves on a desolate island which is devoid of any human life due to a plane crash, whereas in The Road the Man and Boy live in a bleak, destroyed America in which almost the entire population has been wiped out due to an unnamed natural disaster. Because of the lack of resources and essentials, it is inevitable that the main characters have to find means of surviving – in Lord of the Flies; this is mainly through hunting and building shelter and in The Road, the Man and the Boy trek along the barren landscape in search for any remaining food they can find.
Andy was on a side walk bleeding for less than an hour giving him not much time to think. Where as chuck was on an island castaway from human life and had four years to do a whole lot of thinking. In on the side walk bleeding andy would have done anything to live or be seen he didn’t have a chance and he knew is as he said “ hey, im alive! Hey, look at me! Im alive don’t you know im alive?
Another similarity between the two novels is that the parallels between the protagonists and the antagonists are quite similar. Both the novels have a character who willingly gives into his heart of darkness, and a character who sees the savagery of those who are consumed and fights to return to civilization. For example, in the Heart of Darkness Kurtz gave into his heart of darkness and let his evil tendencies take over. He was a one point a man who values morals but gave into his evil side when removed from civilization. Marlow on the other hand also journeys away from civilization but he does not let his values deteriorate such as Kurtz. In Lord of the Flies Jack gave into his evil side and becomes savage like, and begins turning against the ones who were his friends. Ralph on the other hand was not as easily consumed by his evil side. Until his death, Ralph realized the savagery of the others especially Jack.