Use all of our exercises--notes, discussions, lectures--to accomplish this exercise. Write 200+ words, showing similarities and differences Lord of the Flies has to anything you have ever read, seen, or heard. We've begun this exercise in written and spoken form already; now, structure and expand your ideas. Jack is like the Joker, but how? In what scenes?
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Lord of the Flies is similar to the hit TV reality show, Survivor. In Survivor, different people who have never met before are thrown together and forced to live on a desert island in order to win money. In Lord of the Flies, these boys are forced to live together on this desert island and they must learn to get along and to survive the harsh conditions of the island. There are no adults to tell them what to do and how to do it. They have to use the resources from the island in order to get food, shelter and to start a fire. Just like in Survivor, these boys start to form alliances and go against each other. Now there are two separate groups that have different goals and different beliefs on how to make it through. Now, along with the harsh conditions of being stranded on an island, they have to make sure they look out for their group and make sure the other group doesn’t hurt or harm them. It’s a fight to survive and get rescued, just like in Survivor. It’s full of entertaining obstacles and fights that all lead to what happens next. Every move counts.
Good points, Jesse. You notice a lot about the novel. You connect accurately to the way "Survivor" is set up, on television and at BVHS.
However, Jack's tribe does not necessarily want to "make it through" as you put it. They just want to have a good time and do not think about the future one bit.
You bring up a great point about "resources." The adults have given them some good, some bad resources.
Good:
intelligence, strength, discipline
Bad:
lack of cooperation, lean toward savageness and warfare, emotional mismanagement
Lord of the Flies has a lot of similarities to what I have read and seen throughout my life. It is a lot like The Most Dangerous Game, in the book they hunt people and in the end of Lord of the Flies they are hunting Ralph. Rainsford is Ralph, and General Zaroff is Jack, Ralph is the hunted and Jack is the hunter. Lord of the Flies is like 1984 because all of the children are blindly following Jack just like all of the people of Oceania following Big Brother, they do exactly what they are told without questioning it. The Lord of the Flies (the pig head) is just like the “monster” called the God of the Lost in the book The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, he is hunting Trisha (the main character) down and at one point she talks to it, just like Simon does with the pig head. This book also is like “Peter Pan” it is once civilized children who become savage because of lack of structure and adults on an island. Both stories have children learning to survive on their own without any supervision, and in Peter Pan they try to look for a mom to take care of them and somewhat have a father with Peter, in LOTF Jack is the father and Ralph is the mother, they are trying to survive in the only ways they know how to. There is a lot of comparison to movies like “Castaway” and the T.V. show survivor because of the use of primal instincts to survive. We as a society are fascinated with the wilderness and things we do not understand, we have grown up civilized, or what we’d like to call civilized. We are still not fully evolved from the primal beasts we were a few thousand years ago.
There are some differences with LOTF and things I’ve seen or read. Lord of the Flies is not like Pygmalion, it does not take place in London and there are no women present. This is also not like “Mary Poppins” because these children are not civilized, they were at one point, and they are English but they are not refined and do not have a nanny like Mary Poppins to take care of them. Lord of the Flies is also not like House on Mango Street because it’s not about a young girl growing up in a rough neighborhood in Chicago, it’s about young boys trying to maintain order and survive on an island without killing each other in order to get rescued.
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You can connect Lord of the Flies to many different things in society. First off, Lord of the Flies reminds me of not only the show Survivor, but also the BVHS version of it. The boys in the book pretty much get thrown on an island and have to "fend for themselves". In the TV show Survivor the contestants get put on an island and have make it on their own (for the most part). In the TV show they have different challenges. In the book the boys also have many challenges. For example, they have to find food, make shelter, and keep the fire going (so they can get rescued). This also can relate to the BVHS version of survivor because the contestants also had to participate in different challenges. Being one of the contestants on BVHS survivor gave me a taste of what it might be like to be without your family, regular food, cell phone, and even music for a week. The boys on this island (in the book) don't have anybody or anything but themselves. They don't have parents to look after them or any supervision. That is one of many differences from Lord of the Flies and BVHS survivor. On BVHS survivor we at least had some form of supervision at all times incase things got to "intense". Lord of the Flies also reminds me of the movie, Mean Girls. In Mean Girls the main character is from Africa. She always has these little visions of her classmates at school becoming animal or savage like. This relates to Lord of the Flies in that when they are pretending Roger is the pig, or killing Simon (because they thought that he was the beast) they all become animal or savage like. Acting like they don't really care what happens to one another that this is how they will take care of things. But this scene is also different from these visions in Mean Girls. In Mean Girls she is just imagining this, it isn't really happening (until the end of the movie), but in Lord of the Flies these aren't just visions. That is what was really happening.
I really think that Lord of the Flies is highly relateable to the daycare I work at. I can honestly see the resemblences of the children from the book/movie to the actual daycare. But, also at times it is hard for me to believe certain things that happen due to my past experiences with children. I think I have learned that it was completely necessary for Golding to place young, immature boys on the island rather than older boys or any-aged girls. Young boys are the only peole with the qualities necessary to make this book convincing. Also, I can relate this book to the movie "What Happens in Vegas". In both works the couple/group are stuck together with no way out. Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher are binded by law to live together in a small apartment for six months, just as these young boys are bounded to the island. Neither group has a way out. Ultimately each group has a goal they are trying to reach, and I think the differences between these two goals can show how materialistic our world has become. In LOTF the ultimate goal is obviously to be rescued and to live, even though this goal becomes a bit hazy for some of the boys as time passes. But, In the movie "What Happens in Vegas", the ultimate goal is a check worth millions of dollars. This money means so much to hte both of them, that they literally are binded in this situation not by the law but by themselves. There is no possible why either of them can pass up the money. I think both of the situations are relateable, even though one is a materialstic, Hollywood film, while the other is about survival, humanity, and saneness.
Lord of the Flies reminds me of the movie I am legend. Will smith in the movie has to learn how to survive and fend for himself in his situation. Hes left alone in NY and has to learn how to survive since he cant leave. This is like how the boys can get off the island so they have to learn how to survive and keep alive. Both of the movies has a "beast". In lord of flies its the beast in the cave and in i am legend its the "unhuman" things that come out at night. Also this story is like the animated movie the story of 15 boys. It is about 15 boys where they get in a ship wreck and cast ashore on a deserted island. They learn how to survive and what it takes to make it till they get rescued. Also lord of the flies is like cast away because tom hanks also turns "savage" and even forgets how to speak just like one of the boys in lord of the flies forgets about his home. The plot in lord of the flies is used in many other films. The boys will find out who they want to group up with "form alliances" and how they want to survive/be rescued in the end.
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The book Lord of the Flies is similar to the television series, The Real World. The Real World is on MTV Wednesday nights at nine o’ clock. There have been many different seasons of The Real World which take place in different cities. This season The Real World takes place in Brooklyn. But why is this show so popular? All the show really is is a group of adults normally between the ages of twenty to thirty. The people who are filmed in the show are average people with everyday problems. They’re searching for jobs, dealing with family issues, and getting along with the others of the household. Usually every season starts off well with the selected group getting to know each other and sharing each others issues, relationships, and secrets. However, we all know its human nature to have disagreements and become involved in arguments. When you bring a group of people together who hardly know each other what else would you expect? This is directly similar to the book. The boys of Lord of the Flies do not know each other, with the exception of Sam and Eric. They also start off pretty well and get along with the others for the most part. Eventually in The Real World certain groups or clicks form between them, whether it’s between jocks, nerds, girls or boys, or people who’s personalities are parallel. This is also true for Lord of the Flies when Jack steps up and forms his group of hunters, and the rest of the boys are mainly littluns. However, no one in The Real World is murdered, and they’re not necessarily stranded at their home. The boys of Lord of the Flies are stuck on the island until they’re rescued. The “actors” of The Real World choose to be on the show, while the boys of Lord of the Flies are forced to be on the island.
Lord of the flies really reminds me of Cast Away. in Cast away tom hanks uses the things he has to help him survive. His hope is the package which he delivers to the sender 5 years later (he also writes a note that said how it saved his life), the picture of his wife and Wilson who is lost to sea. In lord of the flies piggy and Simon, two hopes are lost. And Ralph is rescued by his 'package' the marine. The boys also talk about making a raft and drifting off to sea just like Tom Hanks did. This book also reminds me of The Most Dangerous Game. In this short story a man decides that the most interesting thing to hunt is man because the man can think and has skills that animals do not have. As the man runs thought the forest for life i am reminded of Ralph running through the forest to save his own life. This book is also like I Am Legend. Will smith has a dog who acts as his only companion and friend against all the zombies. Ralph has piggy who represents logic and friendship against all of the boys who have turned to savages. The zombies are overcome with a illness and the boys have their own illness, their lack of judgment which causes them to turn savage.
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LoTF is very similar to the Mad Max series in a way that Golding is trying to show the world what will happen when structure and reason all explode with the nuclear bombs of war. In Mad Max the main character is a troubled wasteland drifter and doesnt have a place to call home. it ties in with Ralph and Piggy because he is good at heart and thinks beyond tomorrow. The antagonists in the series are so close to Jack and his hunters because they kill for fun and dont think of tomorrow. The two tales are different by the setting and age of the main actors. also there are no women in Lord of The Flies. The setting in LoTF is a tropical island capable of supporting life in contrast to the barren wasteland of Mad Max's universe.
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Lord of the Flies is very similar to MTV's The Real World. Obviously, on the hit TV series they are not stranded on a deserted island, but they are all forced to live and "cooperate" with each other. The way Jack leads his tribe doesn't really have a goal, just like The Real World. The seven or eight people living together in what ever city they happen to be in during that season do not have to accomplish much. They simply live together, while the directors instigate drama, much like Jack has done in the book.
Heath Ledger's "Joker", and Jack from LOTF have much in common. The Joker is a terrorist, and does not care for the feelings or well being of anyone else. He is not afraid to use fear and serious threats to get what he wants. Jack proves to be the same, when his insatiable hunger for power leads to three deaths, and causes feelings of insecurity and fear in the hearts of the rest of the survivors.
The Joker generally runs with a gang of criminals, and Jack has recruited his own gang. When Jack's gang is all together, they develop a mob-mentality, and become quite thoughtless, and very dangerous. At the end of The Dark Knight, the Joker is not completely stopped, just brought back to prison, where he has broken out before. At the end of LOTF, it is safe to say that all the boys have been scarred for life, and Jack will likely return to being the cruel, spiteful adolescent that we saw in the book. Both villains are not completely stopped, and because of their approach (terrorism), they may never be stopped.
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Lord of the Flies is very similar to MTV's The Real World. Obviously, on the hit TV series they are not stranded on a deserted island, but they are all forced to live and "cooperate" with each other. The way Jack leads his tribe doesn't really have a goal, just like The Real World. The seven or eight people living together in what ever city they happen to be in during that season do not have to accomplish much. They simply live together, while the directors instigate drama, much like Jack has done in the book.
Heath Ledger's "Joker", and Jack from LOTF have much in common. The Joker is a terrorist, and does not care for the feelings or well being of anyone else. He is not afraid to use fear and serious threats to get what he wants. Jack proves to be the same, when his insatiable hunger for power leads to three deaths, and causes feelings of insecurity and fear in the hearts of the rest of the survivors.
The Joker generally runs with a gang of criminals, and Jack has recruited his own gang. When Jack's gang is all together, they develop a mob-mentality, and become quite thoughtless, and very dangerous. At the end of The Dark Knight, the Joker is not completely stopped, just brought back to prison, where he has broken out before. At the end of LOTF, it is safe to say that all the boys have been scarred for life, and Jack will likely return to being the cruel, spiteful adolescent that we saw in the book. Both villains are not completely stopped, and because of their approach (terrorism), they may never be stopped.
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Lord of The flies reminds me alot of World War II, because the world was getting along for the most part(there were disagreements but they hadnt escalated yet)which is like all the different boys working together and getting along, even though they had their differences they still got along and respected eachother, but when things in Germany got rough the people looked for a leader who would promise to get them out of the situation, which is how Hitler gained power. This reminds me exactly of Jack, because when things started looking tough and they were sick of doing the logical thing and started to become more passionate and giving into their instincts they looked for a leader that would promise them a better life and give them things that they hadnt had before (pig meat). Ralph can be looked at like a Jew too because he is being exiled and all of the tribe is tryinig to kill him, the tribe doesnt know why, they just do whatever the Chief says. Roger is alot like the Gustapo because he is the enforcer of whatever the Chief says, he makes sure things get done and if they dont he will dish out the punishment.
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Lord of the Flies is similar to the movie Jumanji in a sense that both movies use small boys to accomplish their plot line. In Jumanji the little boy, Alan, is sucked into a board game and makes him spend 26 years in a jungle full of unknown dangers. He is able to adapt to his environment because he has to to be able to survive out in the wild. Just like in Jumanji, the boys in Lord of the Flies have to adapt to their environment. They might not have been on the island for 26 years but they had spent a significant amount of time on the island where they had to adapt or die. In the movie there are many boys and at first they all seem to get along but in a relatively short time the boys start to turn on each other and end up separating into two different groups. Now they not only have to survive on the island they have to survive again each other. Jack is the main leader of the savages who end up hunting the last person who will not join his tribe. This is particularly like Jumanji because Alan has to try and constantly escape from the Hunter in the board game. In both movies the good survives but it is a constant fight to victory for both of them, both of them were nearly killed. Also in Jumanji when all the animals and everything else comes through the board represents the chaos that can happen when things get out of control. In Lord of the Flies the boys most definitely got out of control. They killed two people and tried to kill the third. They were fighting and getting to be more savage and more savage as time passed. Just like in the Jumanji game as more things came out of the board the more chaotic things became to the point where it felt like nothing could be done to reverse what was happening at the time. But of course in the end everything turned out fine and everyone was rescued.
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Lord of the Flies is similar to the book Hatchet. In Hatchet, a young boy must use survival instincts to survive as do the boys in Lord of the Flies. Although in Hatchet, the young boy does not have to compete with others to survive.
Lord of the Flies is simplifying people into their human nature. We don’t see this in society because we are all surrounded by the luxuries of everyday life. The Lord of the Flies shows us what are animalistic instincts are like and that they’ll come out when we are pushed to far out of the norm of society. This may seem like the survival of the fittest but really, Jack and his tribe are the least fit out of anyone. Ralph is much more fit for this than Jack and his gang. The only reason Ralph cannot win is because he is outnumbered but uncivilized savages. This relates to real life. Some people may be right about a certain thing but as long as others disagree then that smaller group cannot win because they do not hold the power of the bigger man. This reminds me of our government trying to tell us what’s right even though we know; deep down, that it’s wrong. Our government tries to protect us but they don’t know how we actually feel about it and ultimately there most likely holding certain individuals back.
Jack doesn't have a plan for survival; he just wants to live one day at a time. Jack is similar to the Joker in this regard. The Joker doesn’t want to hurt anyone. The Joker just wants it his way. Jack never wanted to hurt Ralph, he only wanted to do as he pleased even if it meant hurting others.
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I think that Lord of the Flies is similar to parts of the movie "300". Leonitis is born a normal boy and has a normal life being a child in his village but then once he turns a certain age he is sent off to be transformed into one of the greatest warriors of all time or to die. After awhile of "training" he turns into a savage like warrior killing own boy's his age just to survive. The part when he is on his own in the winter by the fire and the giant saber tooth tiger shows up and corners him into the cave then stabs the saber tooth when it attacks him reminds me of when the "hunters" where hunting Ralph and had smoked him out and Ralph was hiding the bower and Roger is closing in on him then Ralph rushes out and stabs Roger just like Leonitis stabbed the saber tooth. Jack is like the Joker because events in his past have shaped his mind into the way it functions on the island. Every event that happens in someone’s life has a way of changing the person, the bigger the event the more the change, especially at a young age. The Joker had his face carved like a pumpkin by his father at a young ago not only leaving physical scars but "scarring" his mind and psyche for the rest of is life. While Jack on the other hand was caught stealing a car and probably was beaten or punished severely and made him into the person he is today. Both Jack and the Joker use fear as their number one source of intimidation and power. They both make the people around them scared and uncomfortable in order to get them to do what they want they use both mind games and physical pain, torture, both causing death to their opposers.
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Lord of the Flies occurs at the end of the man made world, Armageddon. Armageddon is the second coming of Jesus and the final judgment of man. All humans on the island are children. Men are god’s children. The island is a mini world for man to live in balance with. Man will be tried and judged at the end of existence. The crash, storms, mutiny, and fires are all trials of humanity. How many children can withstand the trials? Simon can be seen as Jesus. He is a loner who finds the truth and tries to tell the others and save them. Man is a wicked beast and instead of him being welcomed in and listened to, he ends up being killed by those he is trying to save. The beast is a false idol that the non-believing tribal children make offering to. The tribal children are pagan. They kill their savior and have a crude system of beliefs. When the world is engulfed in fire and the last of the faithful is about to die, a man appears almost from no where. He is dressed all in white and they stand before him in awe. He judges them based on how the handled the trials and takes them away to a different place. Does Ralph receive different treatment for staying civilized? Do the faithful go to a different place than the unfaithful? Is Jack punished for his actions? The LOTF book doesn’t say, but the bible does.
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Lord of the Flies is similar to all of the Saw movies that I have seen. In Saw V for example, Jigsaw tells all the players at the beginning of the game that all of them are able to survive; all they have to do is work together as a team and not be selfish. But of course when the game begins, they all begin to worry only about themselves and try really hard to make sure that they survive. And by acting selfishly, they don’t realize that they are killing each other slowly, and after each game, one person dies consequently. The same thing sort of happens in Lord of the Flies where panic and selfishness undeniably kills innocent boys. Jack wanted all the power to himself and the other boys being scared just joined him in his evil acts and tribe. Because Jack’s tribe was selfish and demanding, they killed Simon and Piggy without any remorse because they completely lost their minds.
Panic and insanity are the two main components that overtake the individuals in these two works. If all of them would have just kept calm and thought things through without any corruption invading them, all of them would have survived. At the end of Saw V , the last two people still living finally realized that all of them games were meant for all of them to survive because the last game demanded all five contestants to complete. But since there were only two people left, the game could not be completed because those two people lost too much blood in the final contest, thus killing them also. And in Lord of the Flies, all of them could have been saved if they would have stuck together and listened to Ralph and Piggy because those two were the only ones who symbolized structure and sanity. But since they fell into evil and selfishness, not everyone was lucky enough to be saved.
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Lord of the Flies is similar to many readings I have done throughout my high school carrer. Lord of the Flies is similar to the story The Lottery because in LOTF the boys, mainly roger, throw rocks as threat and a hazard to the other boys. In LOTF Piggy loses his life to a rock that drops on him. But, in The Lottery it is a ritual to stone somebody to death every year. Another connection is in Pygmalion but it is a reverse connection. In Pygmalion they take a street rat and make her a gorgeous proper woman. But, in LOTF it is the opposite proper British boys who lose their minds and become totally barbaric.
Lord of the Flies is similar to everyday life because in our hearts we may know what is the right and wrong things to do but we sometimes listen to our heard that leads us to give in to guilty pleasures and desires. Also, sometimes when you get scared if you know giving in will save your life you are more likely to listen to your head instead of standing up for what you think is right. One connection in LOTF is when Ralph really does stand up for what he believes is right even after Piggy is murdered he refuses to join Jack’s tribe and talks of being rescued; just as Atticus Finch does in To Kill A Mockingbird he stands up for what is right even if it could put everyone he loves at risk he doesn’t give in to what everyone else thinks just to stay out of trouble he knows what is right and sticks with it.
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Mallory was explaining to me how LOTF was similar to the Saw movies. I agree, and yet disagree. The savage nature and thirst for blood are common things in both of these films. Both films have no remorse from the killer to the killee. The differences though, would have to be in Saw, Jigsaw is torturing people to prove them a point, and all his games are solvable. In LOTF, the boys' savagry is torturing them to the point where there is no problems to solve, just pigs to kill and meat to eat. I also found that LOTF was similar to the movie Wanted. Wesley is chasing the man that is supposedly trying to kill him. He is filled with so much paranoia, that the first noise he hears, he shoots at it. Turns out it was one of his guys that he just killed. LOTF has similar paranoia and savagry when the boys kill Simon. They know nothing of what the beast looks like, yet when a human figure is coming at them, they assume its the beast. In both movies, the main character(s) seem to be running away from something. Wesley is running away from his boring life for something more exciting. Jack and his tribe are running away from the conch, order, and intelligence. Jack is like the Joker in The Dark Knight because he has no remorse. Both had troubled childhoods, and both now have the chance to do what they please. Neither thinks of the consequences or how their actions will effect the future.
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Lord of the Flies reminds me alot like Survivor, strangers thrown together to fend for themselves. They go through many different obsticals and challanges throughout the book and also the tv show. It is also like surviving BVHS. They all start to form alliances, groups with different goals and beliefs. They help one another out and look after one another. But in reality everyone is for themselves and against one another really.
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Lord of the Flies reminds me alot like Survivor, strangers thrown together to fend for themselves. They go through many different obsticals and challanges throughout the book and also the tv show. It is also like surviving BVHS. They all start to form alliances, groups with different goals and beliefs. They help one another out and look after one another. But in reality everyone is for themselves and against one another really.
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Jack seems to be similar to Tom Cruise's character in the movie "Valkyrie." Jack wants to scheme to overthrow his counterpart Hitler. In order to accomplish this task, he activates Hitler's own emergency army. Jack in a sense takes Ralph's army from under him only with much greater success than Tom Cruise on "Valkyrie." Jack's success does come to an end just like Tom's when the adults arrive on the island and narrowly save Ralph from the boys' wrath. Cruise, unlike Jack, emerged as an immediate leader, and as his plans fall apart, he is incapable of maintaining control and order. Jack gained a greater grip on the boys as the disorder increased, and is in this aspect, he is much more "Hitler-like." Like Ralph, Hitler had a brush with death as well barely avoiding an explosion at a war meeting in rural Germany.
The boys seem to have a high approval of Ralph at the beginning of the book. They diplomatically elect him as a chief because he has the prowess to lead a tribe. They are unwilling to follow his orders and as a result, they begin to struggle for food and shelter. The boys' frustration builds and they begin to take it out on their leader. Jack takes control and ensures that the boys know that Ralph is the cause of their pain and suffering. The boys burn the island and embark on a witch hunt for Ralph. This mentality is similar to "The Crucible" where Mr. Proctor is pursued because of the words of a young, misled teenager girl named Abigail. She gets the rest of the girls to follow her example because they fear being found out and endangering their own lives. They also fear Abigail's wrath and will be physically harmed if they disobey her wishes. Jack is willing to punish anyone who defies his will. Jack shows no remorse, and like Abigail, emerges as a leader despite his deceit and wretchedness.
Lord of the Flies reminds me of alot of different things. First i think this novel can be compared to everday life. If you are involved in an incident at school where you dont agree with someone and they get really upset about it, the only way it can get better is by either talking about it or for most guys, to fight about it. This is exactly what the boys are doing in LOFT, they are so annoyed by each other, found out each others differences and now they are ready to fight. Here they fight so bad, that it is leads to death. Also, I think LOFT really makes you think about what you have in life. Do you think you could live on an island, with hardly any food, no bathroom, no showers, and eat meat straight from a boar? This also reminds me of the movie The Ultimate Gift. In this movie the main character's grandpa dies and he then is set up with different tasks he needs to accomplish. Some of these things included living as a homeless person, comforting a single mom who is in debt, and needs to pay for her leukemia-stricken daughter. He knows he will recieve something if he accomplishes all the tasks his grandfather laid out for him. In the end he realizes that money is not going to get you everything you need in life. Money is not going to make people survive. In LOFT I think Jack needed to realize that killing people for fun was not going to get him anywhere in life. What was his point to it? or did he not have one? Was he just bored? Jack knew from the beginning that Piggy was needed on the island. Piggy knew everything they needed to know about survival. But Jack just watches Roger push the boulder to kill Piggy. He didnt even step up. Jack is to the joker, as facepaint is to cover up their childhoods. The joker's dad told him he needed to smile more so he slit his mouth so it looked like a smile. Jack is know free for the first time from parental control and doesnt know how to control himself.
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-After a while in the book, the whole group of boys splits up into two “tribes”. One is with Jack, and the other is with Ralph. Jack’s group is of course bigger, cause he makes promises, uses force, and intimidates the boys within his group. Eventually most of the boys leave Ralph and join Jack’s group leaving Ralph and Piggy to themselves. This type of scenario is actually seen throughout many schools. There are different cliques that run throughout or school and many others. We have to popular kids like the jocks, partiers, or the good-looking kids or some groups are the nerds, special needs, or even the “non good-looking” kids. Jack’s group could be the jocks, partiers, or the good-looking kids, those types of groups everybody wants to join in on. Piggy is, of course, in the nerd ugly group with Ralph. Also, using this same concept of two different tribes, it could relate to two different countries fighting in a war. When this book was written, it was during the time of World War II, when countries we’re fighting, just like the two tribes. This goes all the way back in history and even in the present. Fighting, in the world or between friends will never end, and always causes trouble, just like in the book, or even death (Piggy and Simon or people in fighting countries).
-Jack and Ralph could relate to a married couple, at the beginning of the book. Most couples have little quarrels or even huge fights, just like Jack and Ralph have on how to have control or who is the leader within the group of boys.
- The Joker, in The Dark Knight, is ruthless, emotionless, and careless. He doesn’t think about people’s feelings, and most likely doesn’t care. He just wants destruction and power just like how Jack turns in the middles of the book. Jack grows into a young man who just wants to be leader, and doesn’t care how he gets it. He wants to rule the island, with force and fear. He has also grown emotionless, besides showing anger or by being abusive. He doesn’t care who he hurts physically or emotionally.
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The message in Lord of the Flies is very easily applied to everyday life. The idea of civilization falling to the greed of one man, people who lose all moral standards just because one person says it’s ok. Jack does this though out the book. He promises fun and meat to those who join and obey him; as Hitler did to the weak and desperate nation of Germany. Germany eagerly took this offer as did the children in the book. The SS and Gestapo are blind followers who obey an eccentric leader. Jack has no plans, no way of getting out, just empty promises for short term pleasures. Hitler had a plan, but the plan was evil and drenched in the blood of the innocent. But, both Jack and Hitler found people to follow them. The odd thing in all this is, if no one followed these two, they would have had no power to instigate their plans, thus preventing such heinous acts. The death of Simon could be paralleled to the killing of the Jews during the holocaust. Simon was a religious-like figure amongst the boys and the Jews were persecuted solely for their religious beliefs. Piggy’s death by roger can seen as an allusion to the wrongful killing of many intellectual by the mindless SS and Gestapo. All in all the passion of one person can lead to a fire of destruction that even nature can not stop.
The book and the movie "Lord of the Flies" remind me of the movie "Mean Girls". I can see the resemblance between the two because of many different things. One of the main ones is that each boy on the island really wants to be the leader (on the inside), even though they don’t express it verbally. And in the movie, each girl from the high school secretly (or not so secretly) wants to be Regina George, the most popular girl at the school. Also toward the end of the movie Lindsey Lohan starts to absorb the way that the "plastics" act, and by just being around that group of people, she has become one of them. That is the same for Jack and his tribe. Jack acts extremely savage and taunts Piggy, and the others see him doing that so they begin to act that way too and probably don’t even realize it. Another thing that happens in both movies is that there are basically two separate cliques. In “Mean Girls” there are a lot of different cliques and at the beginning they are all elaborated upon, telling us who belongs to what groups. And in “Lord of the Flies,” they start out together, but in the end they all end up separated into separate cliques. Then after that, in both of the movies, one person gets shunned from all of the groups and is left to fend for themselves. They are very similar movies even though there are a ton of differences.
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Lord of the Flies is very similar to the show Survivor in many different ways. The boys are stranded on an island with very few supplies and they are forced to use nature in every possible way to survive. The boys endure hardships with each other, nature, and within themselves just like the contestants on survivor. They all start out as friends and then as time goes on they gradually break up and become enemies. In the beginning of the book Jack reminds me a little bit of Nicolas Cage in National Treasure because he is very adventurous and he is willing to risk his life and the lives of others for "fun". Jack doesn't need to go on dangerous hunting expeditions just like Nicolas Cage doesn't need to go on dangerous hunts to find the treasure. This movie also reminds me of a Playstation 2 game I have called Most Dangerous Hunts. In the game you can go hunting for boars with only a knife which is basically what Jack and his tribe are doing. In the game you have to sneak up on the boars and then attack them like they do in the novel. It is also possible to die while on the hunt from lack of food or from other wild animals just as Jack could be attacked by the "beast".
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Lord of the Flies is very similar to the show Survivor in many different ways. The boys are stranded on an island with very few supplies and they are forced to use nature in every possible way to survive. The boys endure hardships with each other, nature, and within themselves just like the contestants on survivor. They all start out as friends and then as time goes on they gradually break up and become enemies. In the beginning of the book Jack reminds me a little bit of Nicolas Cage in National Treasure because he is very adventurous and he is willing to risk his life and the lives of others for "fun". Jack doesn't need to go on dangerous hunting expeditions just like Nicolas Cage doesn't need to go on dangerous hunts to find the treasure. This movie also reminds me of a Playstation 2 game I have called Most Dangerous Hunts. In the game you can go hunting for boars with only a knife which is basically what Jack and his tribe are doing. In the game you have to sneak up on the boars and then attack them like they do in the novel. It is also possible to die while on the hunt from lack of food or from other wild animals just as Jack could be attacked by the "beast".
i find lord of the flies relatable to many different movies and books that i have seen and read. it might not relate to the entire book or movie but for sure to certain scenes. the main one that i think of is how it is similiar to the wizard of oz. in lord of the flies the boys are deathly afraid of this "beast" when in all actuallity they dont even know what it is. this fear runs their life as does it run the characters lives in the wizard of oz. they are so intimidated by the "Great Oz" when no one even knows that he is just a normal person standing behind a screen made to make him look larger and a voice changer to give him an intimidating voice. I also think lord of the flies is like mean girls. Roger is jack's right hand man in LOFT and does anything for jack just to be on his good side. Katy (lindsey lohan) acts the same way in mean girls by doing anything for regina george just to remain popular at her new high school. but as a whole i find lord of the flies most relatable to the tv show survivor. these strangers are forced to be together with no rescources and fend for themselves and attempt to get along.
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I think the movie Lord of the Flies is similar to the movie Castaway with Tom Hanks. I believe that these movies are similar because in both movies a plane crashes down and the survivors are stuck on an island for quite some time. The only difference is here is that in Castaway there is only one person and in Lord of the Flies there is multiple kids. In both movies they have to survive on there own, by finding food, water, making shelters to protect themselves. They make their own places to sleep at night; with branches and twigs from off the island. Tom gets rescued by a raft he made and in Lord of the Flies the kids get rescued by Jacks clan started the island on fire and coincidently get rescued by the marines. Also, I think Roger in Lord of the Flies is like Blade in the movie Blade because he kills many people but Roger only kills one person, but I'm sure Roger would kill more people if Ralph had more people in his group. I also believe the movie Lord of the Flies is similar to the movie Daddy Day Care because the littluns in the movie Lord of the Flies mess around alot and don't care what the older kids tell them to do, just like in the movie Daddy Day Care where the kids do whatever they want when their told to do something they don't want to!
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Lord of the flies reminds me of alot of things in the world. Its like your high school life and the cliques that are formed and trying to weed out the middle man. The boys try to get rid of Ralph and his whole "clique" because they are threatened by them. When the most popular girls in school have competition with another clique of girls they are going to try to win them over or make them a part of there clique until their is none of them left. Its alot like the movie cast away as in the plane leaves them stranded and they have no food but its different because tom hanks is alone on this island as an adult as for the lord of the flies cast is with a ton of other people except its all little children and their is noone there to supervise them. Its basically surivival of the fittest. Who can outlast who just like the show survivor that has been on for many years. You have to outwin your opponents and hunt for food but in survivor their is challenges and you win food as for lord of the flies you have nothing and have to tend for yourself in everything.
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Lord of the Flies can easily be related to everyday life. It resembles the want to "fit it" and be with the "in crowd". No one wants to be the kid who's left out, such as Piggy, and they will do anything to fit in. Sam and Eric betray the ones who treat them well for the ones who are cooler, but treat them like slaves. Lord of the Flies is simply a popularity contest. Who's hotter, who's cooler, and who's more fun. No one cares about the safe kids who resemble parents and rules like Ralph and Piggy. Safe isn't fun. In most storylines the safe and logical ones are the ones who make it in the end, while the crazy, wild, and careless ones don't make it to the end. Not in this case. Piggy and Simon are both "behind the scenes" yet very symbolic characters. Simon is quiet and we don't know very much about him, but his death is foreshadowing what's to come to the other "good boys". Maybe it's better to just conform in this situation than try and make your point known. Just like in school it's better to conform than act out on what you believe and end up in Saturday school. No matter what everyone needs limits to their actions and words, but maybe not everyone knows those limits. Piggy crosses his line when he takes the role of Jack by blowing the conch and putting the attention on himself, instead of Jack. Every group of friends has that "geeky" one that doesn't really fit in but tags along to make sure the others don't get into too much trouble. They're the ones who are DD's at a huge party because they actually care, even if the others take advantage of the situation and don't care as much. Ralph and Piggy are the DD's to Jack and his tribes' parties. They make sure nothing goes too crazy, but every now and then someone does drive home and ends up hurting the ones they never thought they could. Jack and his tribe get too out of control for Piggy and Ralph to handle so why not join in... just for the night. Simon became the victim of the careless party goers that night.
Lord of the flies can be applied to a lot of things today. First off is the reality of the potential WWIII. Lord of the flies takes place during a supposed world war. A lot of the talk today is how to prevent another world war from happening as it did in Lord of the Flies. It also shows us under certain circumstances people will do things that normally they wouldnt do at all. You put a seemingly innocent group of boys on a island and they turn into savages trying to survive. The same way you put a staight man in prison and all of a sudden they are homosexuals. Another way Lord of the Flies is seen today is on television shows. Those shows include, Survivor, Lost, and some movies. The basic idea is to put people on a isolated area and watch the conflict. We did Survivor in our own high school and almost had issues with people wanting to fight other people. Lord of the Flies is a great example of how much a person can change when put in the right situation with the right people. When reading the book its hard to believe that anyone let alone children would behave like that. But when you truly think about it what would you do in such a situation. Thats whats good about Lord of the Flies. It makes you think of things you normally wouldnt think are possible or realistic.
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Lord of the Flies is totally realistic to real life situations. There has been many times in our worlds history where we have been on the brink of an all out total destruction. It shows that no matter how civilized we think we are, that we are all animals on the inside. It is like the tv show lost. They were in a plane crash that ended up on what they think to be a deserted island, and they have to stay together to survive, but that doesn’t work out so well because of the differences between all of the people there. Also the reality show survivor acts upon the same topic and strands people on an island and let them fight it out, and the strongest person wins. Jack is like the Joker because he knows what he is doing is wrong, but he does it anyway because he thinks it is better for society to see the flaws in the world. He also takes from the rich and gives to the needy, like when Jack gets pigs for all of the boys, because he is the only one capable of doing that. The Joker also has had a tough childhood, which Jack may have had because of his high ranking military father.
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Lord of the Flies is similar to the story we read freshman year named The Most Dangerous Game Just like in the book, Jack’s tribe chases after Ralph to kill him. You can also presume that they will eat him also. In the story The Most Dangerous Game, The hunter chases after the man that has been stranded on the island. Rainsford is Ralph, and General Zaroff is Jack. General Zaroff hunts Rainsford just like how Jack is hunting Ralph. Both are hunting for meat and they are both throwing aside all human taboo we know. In both stories the good one gets out, barely. If it wasn’t for the officer, Jack’s tribe would have gotten to Ralph and cannibalized him. Jack’s tribe would have eaten Piggy and Simon if the sea hadn’t taken them away with the tide. This shows how all human taboos can be thrown away just for survival. Jack doesn’t think of Ralph as a person, but as a pig or meat that they need. They are tired of fruit; they want meat, and any kind of meat. Jack has become primitive and savage-like. He wants to kill off the only other that is standing in his way to totally dictatorship.
Lord of the Flies is similar to survivor. Like others have already said, Survivor puts random people on an island, and tests their ability to outlast the elements. Like in Lord of the Flies, Survivor participants must deal with the dramas of the group. On the show they eliminate participants; this is the same as Lord of the Flies in the way of Simon and Piggy both being killed. A major difference of the two is that Survivor has adults, while Lord of the Flies is made up of young British boys. In the show they form alliances, the same has happened amongst the boys, separating into Ralph’s form of control with the conch, and Jack’s savage like tribe. The adults of Survivor do not always act as civilized as they should, showing that its not exactly human nature to love thy brother.
Lord of the Flies is similar to the movie I Am Legend. In the movie, Will Smith’s character Robert Neville, has to fend for himself after he sees his wife and daughter die. When a disease breaks out around New York, Robert Neville stays behind on his own to try and find a cure for the disease, but all the while, he is hunted by savages who have been infected by the disease.
Ralph is most closely related to Robert Neville. Piggy would be related the most to Robert’s dog, Sam. Jack and his tribe would definitely be compared to all the savages living in the dark and unruly city (jungle).
Jack can be compared to the Joker when he kills people.
7-The Lord of the Flies can be to lots of diffrent things in our society. It contains things in our everyday world and sybolys are everywhere. This book has sex, fire, violence, stealing, and chaos. Sex is always on our mind and we see it everywhere in our media. It is in the music we listin to, the TV we watch and even in commericals trying to sell us products. It can also be related to Pinnaple Express in many ways. For exmaple the light the whole island on fire and in the movie its the barn with all the weed. Also they kill with no mercy for simon and piggy and in the movie they kill the other gang. The whole movie is chaos just like the island was and there are really no rules for ethier the movie or book. Symbolys through out the book is the dead parachuttest, the conach, and the pigs head are all major symbols through out the book. They represent order, hope, and chaos with death. The book can also be related to the video game Blitz The League 2 because of there is no rules. In this football game you get reward for being a savage and injuring other players, jucing up, and cheating to win. It goes against what we are suppose to be yet it is a blast.
lord of the flies is like terminator, because in the movie terminator "arnold schwartznager" is a killing robot from the future sent to kill the leader of the revolution when he is a little kid. Arnold is like jack trying to kill piggy, although the leader of the revolution never is killed. It is also like the movie because arnold is killing people so he will live. Just like jack was killing pigs in the beggining so he could live. It is also like lotf because when the terminator kills the opposing robot, is like when piggy gets killed.
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This book has some similarities like survivor. It starts out with everyone together as one group, then in the show survivor they are forced to split up, but In the lord of the flies they split up on there own. Both groups compete for things in the show survivor, like a good meal, or some kind of tool, just as in the book lord of the flies they compete for fire, Piggy’s glasses, and power of the two groups. Then in survivor people get voted off for not doing well or not being liked by everyone. In the lord of the flies, instead of being voted off, Piggy was killed, since Jack’s group didn’t like him. You could also compare the end of the book to the movie Rambo. Rambo was running away from the sheriff and his people, since they were going to kill Rambo. Rambo tries to avoid everyone but ends up killing a few of the police men. Just like Jack and his tribe were trying to kill Ralph, and in self defense Ralph kills a kid as he was trying to escape them. The environment of the both the movie and the book kind of match up too. They are both in a jungle type area.
This book is very similar to the movie I am Legend starring Will Smith as the main character. In the movie, Smith is fighting against mutants who come out at night and try to devour him. He is alone except for his dog who alerts Smith when danger is approaching. This is very much like Piggy who helps Ralph make educated decisions. Piggy has reason, a quality the other boys lack. In the movie there is nothing good left. The whole world is destructed and in every direction there is a barren, desolate landscape. In LOTF Jack's group destroys the island trying to track down Ralph. Nothing is left living due to the total destruction. Smith's dog eventually dies leaving him totally abandoned. This is what Ralph feels like when Roger shoves the rock off the cliff and kills Piggy. Smith, at the end of the movie, sacrifices himself. Although Ralph doesn't literally sacrifice himself, he does sacrifice everything he has. He is kneeling on the beach crying because everything and everyone has been torn from him. He cannot believe what the situation has came to. There are considerable differences however. In LOTF the main character is a schoolboy whereas in the I am Legend the main character is an adult American. Also in the movie the problem is tied with medicine and in the book the problem deals with human nature. Since humans created the virus the problem still deals with human nature. In LOTF the boys are on a desert island whereas the film takes place in an urban setting. By critically viewing a film and comparing it to a classic novel such as Golding's, we are able to acquire a great deal of knowledge while committing a thought crime.
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One comparison I made between the Lord of the Flies and something else I’ve seen is the Real World. Iv watched this show forever and there is currently a season going on right now. There is always different type of drama on each season but it’s the basic concept every time. They pick strangers to live in a house and they have to learn how to get by with one another and either get along or have a long four months of constant battles and arguments with one another. Just like LOTF the boys all get put together and know they have to survive but they don’t realize that they need to learn to like each other and get along if it is going to work out. Just like on the Real World some people get along with someone else than they do with the others and small groups are formed and they team up on the others they don’t like as much or don’t get along with as well. The boys make their groups, though they go a little more extreme than reality TV, and don’t even try to see eye to eye. Just like there is usually always a dominant male who is arrogant and thinks he is top dog on the Real World, there is Jack on the island. Ralph and Piggy match up with that person who always seems to stay home and not go out and avoids fights and can think the most reasonably. And not that I have anything against gays, but there is always a gay who is automatically out casted and treated differently and that is Simon I think.
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Lord of the flies is very different than most things I have ever read or saw. But at the same time it is very similar as well. When I think of characters of movies that are alike I come up with a few different movies such as; Jack the joker from dark knight and Ralph being batman, piggy is like chunk from the goonies. And Simon’s death is resemblance to lion king that when mufsa dies everything in the pride land goes to Disney’s version of hell. When Simon is killed is when things get worse and worse until they are rescued as simba saves the pride land from his horrible uncle scar. The boys stay at the island reminds me of the book Winterdance by Gary Paulsen. In this book the sled dog racer get strained with his dogs in the middle of an Alaskan winter. All he has out there with him are his dogs as the boys only have each other. Although the racer does save himself instead of being saved by someone else. He has to live with the constant cold weather and searching for food. The boys have to live with the constant tropical weather which includes the tropical rains and find the food throughout the forest. That’s just a few of the comparisons between lord of the flies and my readings and viewings
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I think Lord of the Flies is similar to the true story that is relived in the movie "Glory Road." In "Glory Road," a coach by the name of Don Haskins quickly gathers the best talent he can find to assemble a winning basketball team. Similar to coach Haskins, Ralph assembles the group of boys, with the power of the conch, to try and create a successful environment for the boys to live in. Since coach Haskins wanted to find players who could produce a winning ball club, he had to cross the line and recruit black players. The black players in the movie are like Piggy. Piggy gets harassed like the players, but Piggy is better at some things than the other boys. The black players are better at basketball than many of the whites, similar to the way Piggy is smarter than most, if not smarter than all of them.
Texas Western University's mens basketball team in "Glory Road" is like the boars that Jack tries to kill. In the movie. Because of the racism that was going on during this time just about every team wanted to beat/(kill) them. However, only one team managed to beat them. The boars were not as lucky as Texas Western, but Ralph could be seen as the only team to beat Texas Western. Ralph was the only one to be hunted and survive.
Lord of the Flies and "Glory Road" are very different in ending. In the end Texas Western's mens basketball team is unified and they win the National Championship. In Lord of the Flies however, the boys (Jack vs. Ralph) tear each other apart and make it difficult for them to even be around each other. Hence the reason Jack wants to hunt Ralph and kill him.
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I think that LOTF is similiar to survivor BVHS, The movie Holes, and the Joker. First LOTF is like survivor because the contestants were forced to stay in the school until they were voted off just like the boys were forced to stay on the island until they were killed. In survivor there were many challenges. The boys also had to face challenges such as finding food and building shelter. One day I was talking to Dr. Talcott and he said the game was getting too serious and competitive and peoples feelings were getting hurt. Even though it was a game people took it seriously and were getting frusterated with their components. In LOTF the boys are constantly fighting. Eventually they split into two different groups and were competing against eachother.
Holes is also like LOTF, but it also differs. In this movie the boys are sent to a camp, and have to face difficult times. Holes is different form LOTF because in the movie the boys dont get along at first but then they do. At the beginning of LOTF the boys get along fairly well but towards the end they fight constantly.
The Joker and Jack are also similiar. The Joker doesnt have a heart and doesnt care what he does to other people. Jack is the same way. He is only concerned about himself and is mean to everyone. The Joker gets a thrill when he tortures and kills people, just like Jack becomes savage like and doesnt care what he does to animals or people.
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Lord of the Flies can be compared to many movies and life's events in all sorts of ways. I would have to say that I can compare this novel to high school. The way Jack's group and Ralph's group evolved, demonstrated the way groups are split up in high school. Kids like Ralph and Piggy walk the halls trying to remain sane and be nice to people. Kids are made fun of like Piggy was and just try and put up with it. Jack on the other hand likes attention and fun and does what he wants to get it. Some kids care a lot about popularity and don't care how they treat others which is similar to Jack. We are all stuck in high school, the only difference is is that we can leave at the end of the day, while the boys on the island cannot. Some choose to study and do their work, while others like to have fun. High school involves diversity and differences. The boys found this out on the island the hard way, mainly Jack, Ralph and Piggy. Differences in people can have its negative affects because of the differing goals and ideas. High school provides students of 4 grade levels with differing characteristics that can cause chaos like LOTF. Its a matter of cooaperating and living and surviving with others the best you can to make it easier.
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The Lord of the Flies is such a unique book. The combination of dialogue and description portrays the story beautifully. Each boy in this book has a double meaning; Jack and Roger can represent Hitle and the S.S. and Ralph and Piggy represent the Allies. Jack creates chaos in order to gain control by finding the solution to the boys' problems. In the beginning of the book it shows Roger throwing rocks at boys, but missing purposefully. This shows the civilization he had learned throughout his life. But with the fall of civilization and pressure from Jack (Hitler) he cecomes a murderer and doesn't think about it when he kills someone. I believe before the war begain the S.S. would never had even thought about killing just anyone. I also believe that Ralph and Jack symbolize a couple. Ralph being the woman, and Jack being the man. In this novel they fight like a married couple. In one scene they fight about Ralph favoring Piggy. This reminds me of parents fighting about one of them favoring one child more than another child. In another scene they are fighting and Simon goes off and hides to get away from them fighting. I believe this represents them as parents of all the boys on the island. There are many double meanings in this novel, making it a very interesting book to read.
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Lord of the flies reminds me of the reality TV show "Survivor." It is alot alike in many ways. The boys in Lord of the Flies have to kind of learn about the island and what they can eat what they can't eat, where they can go and where they can't go. On Survivor the group has to learn those same things, they have to use everything they can from nature to help further themselves in the game of survival. In Lord of the Flies the group eventually turns into 2 tribes and then become enemies. In Survivor the group eventually also start to be enemies because they want to win the game and get the other people out of the game. Lord of the Flies also reminds me of Castaway because of how they are stranded on an island. Tom Hanks uses the islands resources to survive alot like the boys have to do to survive. For some reason I am also a little remided of Old Yeller. I know its strange. Jack and his group turn into savages and don't act quite the same as they once were, like Yeller when he gets rabies he acts like a savage and does things he would'nt normally do.
FROM KELLI H. :
The Lord of the Flies is a very complex and interesting book. It has some very complex thoughts and criteria tied into it which leads to comparisons of other stories, songs, or experiences constantly. The start of the story begins like Hatchet by a plane crashing and a boy trying to survive on its own. It relates to Lord of the Flies by a plane crashing on an island and the boys all trying to survive. They are two different stories with good endings but in Hatchet it is only one boy and in Lord of the Flies it is multiple boys trying to survive. In both stories there are conflicts they have to struggle but unlike the struggle of other boys like in Lord of the Flies, in Hatchet the struggle is against nature.
The course of actions that the boys take in Lord of the Flies reminds me of what kids act like when they are dropped off at the babysitters but in a less vicious way. It reminds me of this because at home kids may be quite civilized but when they do not have the constant attention of parents they become savage-like just like the boys on the island. At home they are good, well-mannered children, but now with no adults they are becoming savages and trying to kill each other off. They may seem similar in ways but yet have very drastic differences like in a daycare the kids are trying to strive for attention and get to go back home eventually but in the book the boys just care for themselves in fear of never making it back home ever again.
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The Lord of the Flies is very similar to many movies and things that happen in real life. It is similar to a family in the real world where Jack and Ralph seem to have a mother father relationship. Jack is the father because all he wants to do is have fun and not worry about anything. Ralph is the mother because he is being logical by trying to build huts and keep the fire on in order to get rescued. Piggy is like a child to Ralph and Jack. He is like a son who the dad wants him to be good at everything such as sports, and he gets abused for not being good at such things just like in the LOTF when Jack treats Piggy bad and hits him for speaking his ideas. Then Ralph kind of babies Piggy around, and tells Jack not to do that to Piggy. Also LOTF relates to the book The Most Dangerous Game. In the Most Dangerous Game a guy named General Zaroff hunts another guy stranded on the island called Rainsford. Zaroff reminds me of Jack and Rainsford reminds me of Ralph because Jack hunts Ralph in the end, and in both books the hunters want to eat their targets. Ralph and Rainsford both barely get away, and Zaroff and Jack aren't punished for trying to kill their prey. The LOTF is different than the normal plot because it shows that kids can be savages like adults, and they lose their mind so much that they want to eat their own friends.
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Lord of the flies can be compared to real life and real people. Each character represents a person in society. Piggy represents the people that are ignored and made fun of for the qualities that make them look “weak.” They are the ones who have to go through being put down and persecuted for things they can not change. They are the ones with the greatest strength, but others don’t take time to see it. Jack is the person who has to have complete control over every situation and every person. These people may not have the qualities that make them a leader, so they have to put down others to satisfy their hunger for control. Ralph represents the type of people who have qualities that make them a great leader, but sometimes don’t have the confidence to stand up for what they believe in. The situation the boys are in can represent daily struggles in life. We all try to survive like the boys and sometimes we split from our normal ways and beliefs to fit in. There are times in life that we forget who we once were and in a sense lose ourselves, just like the boys. The boys feel lost and eventually lose hope, like any human can when they are taken from everything they have known and put in a place that is new. It is just like a child being put in school for the first time or a senior going off to college. You eventually change to the new setting, just like the boys change from sophisticated to savages.
I think Lord of the Flies could be related to many different things and movies depending on how you look at the movie. You could compare the characters, settings or themes. I compare the characters to the boys in the movie Sandlot. Where a bunch of boys play baseball and their ball gets hit over a fence where there is a huge dog (the beast). The boys try to work together to get their ball back because the ball is very important and this includes using team work-without adults. There is a boy who strongly reminds me of Piggy with the glasses and dorky mannerisms. Also the fight between Jack and Ralph reminds me of Mr. Cunningham and Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird. Even though everyone knows that the black man did not harm Mayella they still find him guilty when they know it isn't right and Atticus stands alone in the trial. Just as Ralph stands alone on the Island so. All the young boys follow Jack even though they know Ralph is the sensible and it would make more sense to follow Ralph as it would make more sense to be on Atticus' side.
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Lord of the Flies is the same as the movie Blood Diamond. In the Lord of the Flies, the boys burn the forest and almost destroy the island. Also there is the scar by the plane crashes. That one the same as destroying mother nature. In Blood Diamond, the men digging for gold and leave the scar too.
In Lord of the Flies, the boys are afraid so they follow Jack just as the black men work for the gang. The men are afraid that the gang will kill them and their families. In Lord of the Flies, the boys forget about their old life just as the gang stole the boys to be killers and brain washed their mind. Later, in Lord of the Flies, Jack and the boys chase Ralph and want to kill him, Ralph knew he will have to died or he will against them. Same as the gang chases Solomon because he have the big diamond and also want to destroy Danny because he did almost destroy them so the gang don't want this happen again. The Lord of the Flies and Blood Diamond are lot alike.
I think Lord of the Flie is relatable to many things. One of the movies I first thought of was Castaway. There is a plane crash and no way of getting any contact with anyone to be rescued. They both had to build a shelter and towards the end kind of go a little crazy. They find out who they can become in a certain kind of situuation. One of the obvious differences is that in LOTF there's more then one boy and in Castaway there's only Tom Hanks. Tom Hank's caracter eventually makes a friend out of the volleyball he found and even named it. The boys in LOTF eventually start killing off each other. They become careless.
I can even relate LOTF to some situations in real life. Especially to surviving. We would eat all the fruit we could but we can't just survive off that. Everyone needs meat. In a group of people, there's always going to be someone that everyone doesn't like too much. There's always going to be someone like piggy who has to have their opinion in and make sure people know what he thinks. Ralph is the senseble one that everyone can count one. Then there's someone like Jack. Maybe presidential canidates?? Maybe some friends? They will say they'll get a certain something passed or they'll do something to make another thing better. But will they keep that promise? They can have more fun and what not. I truly think Lord of the Flies is comparable to almost everything one can think of. There's many symbols, different situationa, and struggles that everyone may go through or may not.
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Lord of the Flies reminds me of a couple different movies. One movie/ series that is quite the opposite is Band of Brothers. In Band of Brothers WWII paratroopers become just that, brothers, when they are in a situation not far off of what the boys in LOTF are in. They are different in how they deal with their respective situations. In Band of Brothers they help each other through and become one cohesive unit. This is an obvious difference in how the boys in LOTF split into two groups. One that comes to mind that is similar is The Prestige. Two men have a rivalry of who can perform the best magic trick. Jack and Ralph are much like these men in the way they compete to become chief. Another movie that comes to mind is 3:10 to Yuma. Ralph is just like Daniel Evans in the way they finish their respective stories. Evans is offered a lot of money and a chance to start his life over, if he gives up and lets Ben Wade off. Just like Ralph could join Jack and let him win. Evans chooses to stand up for what is right and attempt to take Wade to the train. This is exactly like Ralph deciding not to give in, but stand up against Jack and his tribe. Both choose their paths not because it is the easiest thing but because it is the right thing to do. The only difference would be that Evans dies in his efforts but is successful in getting Wade to the train. Ralph never gets to this point, but we would like to think that he would die for his beliefs before he joined Jack's tribe. We can believe this because Ralph stands for order and reason in the book. As to Jack being like the Joker in The Dark Knight I think he starts off as quite the opposite. At first Jack wants lots of rules and punishment for breaking these rules. But later, much like the Joker, Jack wants no rules and feeds off passion and chaos. This passion and chaos reminds me of what the Joker says about having a plan. He says something like he doesn’t ever have a plan and that he is like a dog chasing a car, he doesn’t know what he would do if he caught it. This quote is much like the death of Simon; Jack doesn’t really know what to do and basically just ignores it and blames it on others.
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I think Lord of the Flies reminds me of The Crucible. Everyone starts out all civilized and well mannered, just doing what they need to in order to survive. Then some even happens (Lord of the Flies it’s a plane crash/war and The Crucible it’s a potion dance in the forest) that makes people start to turn against one another or join into a separate tribe. In The Crucible, John Proctor would be the equivalent to Ralph because he knows the truth and sticks with it until everyone is against him. Also, Elizabeth is equal to Jack because she starts the lies (dictatorship in Lord of the Flies) and gets people to her side. She is supported by Mary and the other girls (Roger) to help others join. In both novels, many people die because of a lie, becoming savage, or to keep out of being killed. Both novels end in many deaths because people stop acting like real people and become savages again. They are swayed by false thoughts (the monster or the witches) and become killers because they think they are pure. In reality, no one is pure and they just hide this by killing others that pose a threat.
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I found that the book Lord of the Flies has similar ideas to the TV series Smallville. Smallville is about a guy named Clark Kent who will eventually become Superman. It shows the story of how he grew up and the problems that a superhero might encounter when they are young. One of the main characters in Smallville is Lex Luthor, a rich kid that loves his money almost as much as he loves power. Throughout the show Lex and Clark have a love-hate relationship; one episode Clark won't trust Lex and the next episode they are best buds; but overall they are friends in the beginning. Eventually they become arch rivals and Lex tries multiple times to kill Clark. I would compare Ralph to Clark and Jack to Lex. In Lord of the Flies Jack eventually feels nothing but hate towards Ralph just like Smallvilles' Lex eventually feels nothing but anger and rage toward Clark.
Lord of the Flies can also be compared to the BVHS version of survivor. All of participants started off feeling friendship toward each other. Near the end of the competition certain members started to hate and fear each other, just like it is at the end of Lord of the Flies (without the bloodshed).
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I think the book The Lord of the Flies is very similar to Fight Club. Edward Norton plays the narrator, and is similar to Ralph at first. Tyler Durden is the narrator's conscience and is like Jack in the book. Norton is a normal business man who is very sensible and "normal", Tyler Durden is like Roger because he acts on his passion not on what is necessarily the right thing to do. Later in the book Norton becomes an insomniac who goes off the deep end. He goes from being Ralph to being Jack. He starts a fight club because he feels it makes him feel better about himself. He doesn't worry about the others, at one point he is seen continuously punching an unconcious man like Jack picks on helpless Piggy. He knows he has won but finds enjoyment in torching the other. We then find out that Norton the Narrator and Tyler Durden are the same people, Tyler Durden who is played by Brad Pitt is just the narrator's conscience and he almost kills himself before he realizes this. This is just like in the book, Jack realizes he has gone crazy just before he kills Ralph when they notice the Marine standing on the beach. It took them both to there darkest moments of their lives to realize they had lost all of the good that was inside of them. There are many similarities between Fight Club and The Lord of the Flies, but these are just a few. Another similarity is like in Mark 14:26-31 when Jesus predicts Peter will betray him and he does. Peter is like Jack and Jesus is like Ralph, at first they are both friends like when the two boys met on the island they were friends at first. Jack(Peter) goes off and forms his own gang and eventually tries to kill Ralph(Jesus). Peter doesn't try to kill Jesus but denies the fact that he knows Jesus three times, and this breaks Jesus' heart. So The Lord of the Flies has some similarities in religion as well.
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Lord of the Flies reminds me of the movie aliens. People move to a new planet in hope for a second planet to survive on. But they had picked on of the worst to try and live. they Found themselve being hunted by a monster. Much like the monster that the boys had imagioned. The monster hunted them down and picked them of one by one. The boys where hunted by a monster and became one themselves. Then they went after the others.
In the end the only thing that saves the last servivor is a group of soldiers. Much like the soldiers noticing the fire and picking up the boys. Ralph is the little girl who could only survive by hiding where ever she could find. Ralph could only survive by hiding in the bushes.
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Lord of the flies is very similar to alot of movies and books that i have seen/read. A movie that i have recently seen would be the dark knight which i could relate lord of the flies to. Lord of the Flies has many symbols such as Piggy's glasses and fire, The Dark Knight has many symbols also, the main one being the bat signal. All of the symbals represent hope and survival. The joker and jack are both very hostile and very similar. The joker has one solution: kill the batman. Towards the end of lord of the flies, jack has no other solution but to kill ralph. No negotiation.
In one scene, the joker has killed a mobster named gambol in the middle of a pool game with his three associates. The three associates are left with the oppurtunity to join the joker but only one position is open. the joker then leaves the three associates with halves of a borken, sharp pool stick. they are left to fight for their lives. You either join or be killed. This is similar to the boys' situation. Either join jack's tribe or be hunted.
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I can relate Lord of the Flies to the book and movie The Outsiders. In ways where first off, the kids are by themselves and have to find a way to survive. You could go as far almost gang fighting-like the outsiders. Ralph has his gang and Jack has his. They cant find similarities or even stand each other so there ends up being violence. In that sense i see those as being related. Another thing i have noticed is that i can compare LOTF and high school with each other to an extent. In high school there is indeed groups. They do not go as far as violence but there is differences but people do pick their own paths, maybe its not their choice but where they fit in. People like Ralph is someone who is nice to everyone who is nice to him. Jack is someone who drinks and picks on people because its fun. A Jack in high school is someone who would go out of there way to pick on someone. Look at Piggy, he has done nothing to Jack and Jack and Roger and kill him.
Jack is like the Joker because he uses violence and paints his face to get noticed, or what he wants. Jack extremely reminds me of the Joker in the scene where he kills Simon. He runs after him along with his rebels and stabs Simon over and over and over. Showing no human in him. Overall pretty much just the face paint and attitude towards civilization reminds me of the Joker. Both JOker and JAck go against civilization also. Ralph is like batman, trying to contain civilization and protect his people.
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Lord of the Flies is very similar to the movie Cast Away with Tom Hanks. In the movie, Tom Hanks' plane crashes in the ocean and he ends up on a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which is alot like the story LOTF. He has to rely on his own skills to hunt and find fresh water. But, unlike the film, Tom Hanks doesn't have other people on the island with him so he nevr becomes the hunter or the hunted like in LOTF. In both stories though, the kids and Tom Hanks is found and brought back to civilization where you can tell they have a hard time readjusting especially in Cast Away. Both stories go from their lowest points to highest when they are capture. In LOTF Ralph is being hunted and sure to be killed when he stumbles upon the an army ranger. In Cast Away, Tom Hanks makes a raft and floats out to see, either to be found or starve to death.
LOTF also reminds me of I Am Legend, starring Will Smith. Ralph could be like Will Smith in the movie-the only sane one left with reason and judgement. While the infected zombie like creatures are Jack's hunters who only want meat and have turned to savages. Jack could be the leader of the zombies (nightwalkers) who you see throughout the movie leading the zombies and always giving you a deathly stare. Will Smith could represent the all the boys in the beginning of the film when they have to find food/water for themsevles and fend of any beasts just like Smith as the last human in I Am Legend.
Jack is like the Joker in the Dark Knight. The Joker is the leader of a gang in Gotham City and Jack is the leader of the hunters. The Joker kills and plays games with people for the fun and adrenaline rush. Jack also enjoys the fun and game of hunting things and the adrenaline rush it gives him. The rush of hunting eventually even leads Jack to want to hunt and kill Ralph in the end of the novel.
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Lord of the Flies is similar to many different movies and stories in many different ways. One of these similar movies is Swiss Family Robinson. In both movies, the group of people is stranded on an island for an unknown amount of time. In Lord of the Flies, Ralph is the mother figure and Jack is the father figure. Like Ralph, the mother in Swiss Family Robinson is primarily focused on building a house before anything else. They must have protection. Fritz and Ernest, the two brothers, fight and compete each other for the girl, Roberta. This is much like how Jack and Ralph compete for their followers, the big kids and littluns. Both movies also have a snake-like beast. Granted, the Swiss Family Robinson snake is a real, tangible danger, the Lord of the Flies beast is in some ways more dangerous, because it turns themselves into the beast. One other similarity between the two stories is that both of the groups are rescued by a member of the military. The Swiss Family Robinson decided to stay on the island, except Fritz and Ernest, while I assume all the boys in Lord of the Flies were returned back to their homes.
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Lord of the Flies reminds me of the movie Cast Away. One of the first reasons it makes me automatically think of Castaway is the fact that they both had a plane crash onto a desserted island, and no one knows that people are there in either Lord of the Flies or in Cast Away. Another thing that Lord of the Flies reminds me of is the book The Most Dangerous Game. The main similarity in the books is that Jack and his tribe are trying to kill Ralph like in The Most Dangerous Game where they chase after the guy to kill him too. Another show that Lord of the Flies reminds me of is the reality show Survivor. In Lord of the Flies the boys have to learn how to live off the land and get along with each other and live by themselves, like in Survivor the competitors have to live off what they can find and learn to work together to stay on the show.
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Lord of the Flies can be related to almost anything, but I’m going to relate it to the movie I’m close-viewing for the film deconstruction essay-- Fight Club (1999). Specifically, Jack is like Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). He takes over Edward Norton’s life, just as Jack basically does to everyone on the island except Piggy and Ralph. They take over all aspects of their lives.. What they eat, what they wear, what they do in their life and how they do it. How does one be an individual or themselves if they are being controlled, and not just controlled, your life is taken over and is threatened if you do anything other than obey? Exactly, it’s impossible. Both Jack and Durden get “overtaken” in the end, only difference is that Norton realizes how to conquer Durden whereas the littluns, Piggy, and Ralph don’t exactly know how to conquer Jack, but end up being saved by the Naval Officer who then is their conqueror. Also, in Fightclub it’s Norton against himself, he just doesn’t realize it in the end and in LOTF, it’s others against Jack. The littluns basically give into Jack and don’t try to stick up for themselves, by needs of survival.. But who can blame them? At points in Fight Club, mainly the beginning, Norton also gives into Durden, he just doesn’t realize what he’s doing. In the beginning he’s just a quiet, self kept, vulnerable guy, where later, Durden turns him into a “barbaric,” and “savaged,” person as what happens to the kids in LOTF.
Lord of the flies is similar to the movie DOOM. They are both trapped on an "island", in doom the are in the time warping quaritine but they are sent their to attack or capture a "beast" and they whole time that they are looking for a beast some of the men become a beast while not even knowing it. Similar to lord of the flies, the boys become savages and do not even realize it becuase they have no one to show them or no real civilaztion around them anymore. Then towards the end of the movie The main character becomse a beast while his close friend also a soldier duke it out in an all out brawl for the lives. Compared to lord of the flies they are battling Ralph mainly Jack to try and kill him so that all the decency on the island is gone. Also lord of the flies is similar to the movie and real life event of Andersonville. They are both unexpectedly trapped somewhere they dont wanna be. The soldiers were captured and the boys crashed, but both ways they are trying to survive and while doing so many or some the people have become savages like the raiders in andersonville, and like Jack's group in the lord of the flies. The most ironic thing in both books/movies is that they are all like a "family" but the situation is to such a certain degree where they dont even care for each other anymore and are so selfish that they are trying to do stuff for themselves or for like the raiders, just to be able to live better and be free by doing what ever they want.
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The Lord of The Flies can relate to mostly any movie or other novels if you want it to. I am going to relate it to Schindler's List. Schindler's list is about WWII and the Holocaust. It relates to The Lord of the Flies because all the Nazis are savages killing there own kind just like in the book and they dont even have a heart to feel bad for what they are doing. Schindler's List is way more graphic than Lord of the Flies but they can easily be compared to. Hitler is the leader and he has his followers just like Jack and the hunters out to kill anything and anyone. Schindler's list is also a sign distopia like Lord of the flies on how the Government is out of control.
Lord of the Flies is, in my opinion, a lot like the novel A Separate Piece because of the two main characters being male and both having very opposite personalities. The novel is also very symbolic and is a highly recommended college novel. One of the boys is very good at sports and social charm, while the other is very smart and is an excellent student, but is very quiet. The movie Cast Away is an obvious comparison movie because of the stranded on a dessert island and the thought of never being rescued is pretty much mirrored in LOTF. The movie A Beautiful Mind reminds me of the struggles between reality and chaos. The main character in the movie is a lot like Ralph in the sense that is struggling with two very different pulls in his mind and physical world. The character in the movie is struggling with the grasp of what is really happening to him and his family and what he is picturing is happening to him in his mind. The struggle between good and evil in a sense of the schizophrenia is the evil and the real world is the good. The best comparison that I can make is between the novel and the movie of I am Legend. The humans that Will Smith is fighting are in fact humans, but are also savages, corrupt, and very blood thirsty. Will Smith is Ralph while he is fight for his sanity and tries to help the other humans to become sane by trying to find a cure for the disease that has taken over the world.
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Lord of the flies is similar to the Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet. In Romeo and Juliet, the two families are in a fight that has lasted for generations; the two different “tribes” of the boys have different motives while staying on the island which causes a lot of tension and hatred. Because of the hate, people get killed and threatened, just as it is in Lord of the Flies. Piggy is disliked so they mock him and threaten him in different ways and eventually kill him. And Simon is accidentally killed because of fear and misunderstanding, which is similar to how Romeo dies. Romeo is frightened that he has lost the love of his life when he doesn’t know that it is because he never received the message to tell him of Juliet’s plan with the potion. So because of misunderstanding Romeo kills himself. In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet would much rather die than to marry Parris, which reminds me of Ralph. Ralph would give anything and do anything to get rescued, which makes Piggy like Romeo, trying anything he can to get rescued, or in Juliet’s case to not get married to Parris yet the difference is that Romeo eventually kills Parris… when Piggy is actually the one getting killed. I found it interesting how much alike the two were because Romeo and Juliet is my favorite Shakespearean play and LOTF is definitely very good also.
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I think that the Lord of the Flies is like almost any game show ever created. It has emotion between the characters/contestants. It has challenges that the people have to over come to survive in the game or in the Lord of the Flies case, survive in real life. It also has clear cut leaders or people who everyone listens to or follows. In the Lord of the Flies, Ralph and Piggy are very emotional characters which I think is like survivor or any game show because both Ralph and Piggy get into what’s going on, just like people in game shows that get into the game and that’s all they think about. It is again like survivor in that both survivor and Lord of the Flies have challenges for the contestants to complete whether it’s a physical or social challenge like most of the challenges in Lord of the Flies. And once again Lord of the Flies is like survivor because both the book and the game show have clear cut leaders that everyone seems to look towards for guidance or advice. So I’d say that Lord of the Flies is most like survivor because just like in Lord of the Flies people in survivor revert to their primal instincts to try to survive.
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I think LOTF can be compared with highschool. You have Jacks, Ralphs, Piggys, Simons, Rogers, and people who just fade into the crowd. Nearly everyone can see the characters in this book because they have meet someone just like that in school. Those who lead through aggresion, or maybe someone shy and quiet. And it is an environment similar to that of the island. Adults are present, and there are cosequences to breaking rules, but students always form their own groups with their own rules and punishments. We may be older than the boys on the island, but relatively we are all still kids.
LOTF is similar to many things but also has many differences. It is easy to find themes from LOTF in everyday life, in a way we sort of live it. Especially with the age most of us are at now, we are constantly fighting against what is responsible and what we want to instinctivly do. I like LOTF because it takes a huge topic and puts it into a perspective that people can understand. Its hard to take on the whole concept of humanity and not offend essentially everybody but I think LOTF accomplishes this. I think LOTF is different from anything I have ever read because it can be read literally and symbolically. I think that there are so many symbols in this book that we may not even be aware of all of them. Over all I learned a lot from reading LOTF. It makes me wonder about my own choices and where I would fit in on the island. I think that it makes us take a step back and look at ourselves as individuals and humanity as a whole. By narrowing down such a large topic into one that we can wrap our minds around, LOTF shows us that although we have become more "civilized" it doesn't mean that we have become more "human".
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The Lord of the Flies is similar to the show Lost. This show, Lost, is about a group of people that are lost on a deserted island without knowing any sense of direction. The boys, in Lord of the Flies, also have no sense of direction of where they have crashed on that deserted island as well. In the show Lost, there are a few different groups. On group is similar to Jack’s clan because the act as savages and have little emotion. The other group is similar to Ralph, Piggy, and Simon because they are maintained and well behaved and also try to find a way to escape from this deserted island. Jack is similar to the Joker in the movie the Dark Knight because they both are blood thirsty villains that show little or no emotion. Maybe they both have had a past problem in their lives that have lead up to the way they act and treat people now. Their minds are distorted and possible just confused people who take out their problems on the world instead of dealing with it and working it out themselves. The Joker shows little remorse when he kills or sees someone die just like how Jack sees Piggy get crushed and helps kill Simon and showing no remorse.
LOTF reminds me of many movies, tv shows and books. To start with it really reminds me of the book animal farm by george orwell (author of 1984). In this book the pigs want to rebel from the horrible treatment of the humans, and so they do and succeed. Now on their own the animals start to have a fight for power between two pigs, one who is very intellectual and has great ideas to better the farm, and one who leads with power and fear. As the two begin to struggle the dictator like one ends up chasing out the other and starts his dictatorship by fear! He has followers, the sheep, who chant and chant but don't even know what they are saying. He has a fierce pack of dogs who install fear and only he can stop them from reaking havoc on the farm. And in the end the new dictator ends up being just as what the humans were and what the animals had wanted to escape. Now in the book it is similar because the boys flee the horrible adult world of war and chaos. Then on the island there is a fight of power between two, one and intellectual the other a dictator. In the book the dictator wins as well and rules with fear and has followers that chant and sing and dance without knowing why. He uses the beast for fear and that only he can protect from the beast. And as he becomes so savage and beast like, he is becoming more and more like what the kids were escaping in the beginning just as in animal farm. The scenery of the book reminds me of castaway with this vast huge island that they have to control and figure out on their own. The kids remind me of the outsiders, just kids trying to survive on their own being put in an awful situation. Jack is kind of like the joker in sense that he is just doing what is natural. The adults aren't thinking either and at times they don't mean the worse but they are putting havoc on the world. He is power hungry though and he reminds me of books about hitler or stalin. The one's who find their people in hard times and are able to promise them to lift them out of depression and promise great things to get them power. And when they have it they wrongly use it to install fear, and allow no one else to threaten their power.
Lord of the flies is similar to the movie "The Invisible." In the movie there are two main characters, Nick Powell and Annie Newton. Nick is a good student that follows the rules and functions solely on his thoughts, where-as Annie is the exact opposite and is constantly in trouble with the law and acts mainly on her emotion...she never stops and thinks. Like Ralph, Nick only trys to do good and help people out. While Annie, like Jack is focused only on herself and what affects her directly. In the movie Annie at her whim has her goons beat up Nick for something he didn't do while walking home from a party, but Annie takes it to far and kicks him in the face and they thought he had died. The only reason this happened was because there was a misunderstanding due to coersion and nick's friend said he sold Annie out to the police about some jewelry that she stole. This is like lord of the flys because Jack has his goons do anything he wants at his command, and the fact that all of Ralphs followers betrayed him, like Nicks friend did when he sold him out, and when Nick is being beaten and chased it is in a forest... just like how ralph was being chased except Ralph wasn"t caught.
Lord of the flies is similar to the movie "The Invisible." In the movie there are two main characters, Nick Powell and Annie Newton. Nick is a good student that follows the rules and functions solely on his thoughts, where-as Annie is the exact opposite and is constantly in trouble with the law and acts mainly on her emotion...she never stops and thinks. Like Ralph, Nick only trys to do good and help people out. While Annie, like Jack is focused only on herself and what affects her directly. In the movie Annie at her whim has her goons beat up Nick for something he didn't do while walking home from a party, but Annie takes it to far and kicks him in the face and they thought he had died. The only reason this happened was because there was a misunderstanding due to coersion and nick's friend said he sold Annie out to the police about some jewelry that she stole. This is like lord of the flys because Jack has his goons do anything he wants at his command, and the fact that all of Ralphs followers betrayed him, like Nicks friend did when he sold him out, and when Nick is being beaten and chased it is in a forest... just like how ralph was being chased except Ralph wasn"t caught.
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lord of the flies is similar to the show lost. at first everyone is super nice and kind and tries helping the other people out. they start a "tribe" and jack is the leader.. jack is the docter. they later then cant find food so they hunt and make shelter. they find pigs on the island as well. then later they find a storage unit from the 'others'. the others are the people who were on the island before oceanic flight came down and started living. in lost there is love though which is not in lord of the flies. later the group splits into two tribes. jacks tribe and loch s tribe. Ralph is like jack in the show because jack is only trying to find a way off the island and he also wants order , but loch is like jack becaus he wants to hunt and to kill th e others . in the group the others ben is like a mix between jack and ralph and piggy . ben is a coward . but he is also a good leader. and he wants to kill off jack .
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"Lord of the Flies" is similar to Fight Club. Like LOTF, Fight Club is made up of group of males who are castaways, in a sense. They are literally castaways in LOTF, but figuratively in Fight Club. All the men in Fight Club are living fake lives. They are bored with their daily routines and need something more in life. The main character, who's name is never mentioned, probably to support the idea that he represents everybody in society, is played by Edward Norton. He can be compared to Ralph in LOTF. The person who turns out to be the antagonist is Tyler Durden, who is a second personality of the schizophrenic Edward Norton. He can be compared to Jack. One of the main disciples of the Fight Club (which turns into a cult) is Bob Paulson, played by Meat Loaf. He can be compared to Piggy, given the fact that he is obese and is Edward Norton's best friend. Also, Meat Loaf is killed by a mission done by the cult. All the missions are like the huntings that Jack's tribe does. Edward Norton is opposed to doing these runs, while Tyler Durden, played by Brad Pitt, is the gang leader. Lastly, the final scene in Fight Club shows bombs going off under skyscrapers with mass chaos and fire. This is like the last part of LOTF. Also, you could say Edward Norton is rescued at the moment he hold's Marla Singer's hand, who could be compared to the adults of the world. At this point in Fight Club. It seems Norton is done with his disease.
Sorry this is so late. I forgot about it for Thursday and I worked all weekend. I know it's a poor excuse, I just hope I can get some credit.
Thanks.
tina L
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(Sorry about the tardiness of this blog. I was gone all weekend at camp. I hope to get credit for doing it! ^^)
LOTF is similar to the Chunin Exam Arc in Naruto. Team 7 is made to survive in the Forest of Death, like in LOTF the boys had to survive in the wilderness. In Naruto, they have to get to the tower in the middle. However, they have to beat other ninja to get there and not get killed! Beasts live in the forest that can eat them and or crush them. Also, the other ninja who take the exam can kill them too.
There is leadership problems in both. In LOTF, Jack wants control to have fun and hunt, not thinking ahead like Ralph. In Naruto, Naruto just wants to rush ahead to finish the exam in the forest, while Sasuke on the other hand, wants to think and get to the tower in do time. Also, Naruto and Sasuke don't get along, which makes teamwork impossible just like in LOTF! Jack and Ralph don't get along. There are differences though. LOTF is on a stranded island, while in Naruto, they are in a thick forest training ground. In literal terms, LOTF is a movie with real people in it. Naruto is just an anime show with lots of violence.
Therefore, both show that humans can turn savage in the right conditions and that we need to stay civalized or we will be eaten by a giant snake like Naruto. (Not really. He does get out though. He's the main character, can't have him die). ^^ Being civialized is the way to survive! If we lose ourselves, it's the end of the world or we'll end up in a scenro of Naruto or LOTF.
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In a way, Lord of the Flies reminds me of V for Vendetta. In the movie a masked antihero plans to destroy parliament and make the people of England “free thinking”. The reason it reminds me of Lord of the Flies is that it is a power struggle between two very commanding figures. This relates to Jack and Ralph in that they both think they are “right” but really neither is right. V represents both Ralph and Jack in that he wants to be able to think for himself and wishes everyone has the same right (Ralph), but in getting that right and power, he is almost shown as a savage who only cares about one thing (Jack). I would also compare it to 1984 because the people follow Big Brother because he controls the province of Oceania just like Jack controls the island. Piggy reminds me of Winston in the way that he thinks and acts, he notices what is wrong with society and would like to change it but he is such an outcast that he cant change things into what he would like them to be. It made me wonder if one person could really change the world….?
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Lord of the Flies is similar and can be compared to “I am Legend.” Both movies discuss and confront our fear of isolation. In “I am Legend” Will Smith believes he is the sole survivor of a horrible virus outbreak that pushes humanity to near extinction. In the novel Lord of the Flies the boys are the only survivors on their island with no hope of rescue, or salvation. At the very end of the novel Ralph is hunted by that what used to be human, but has now been transformed through body paint, fear, and Jack into savages. This is similar to “I am Legend” in the way that Will Smith is being hunted by the remains of humanity. The zombies that hunt Will Smith’s Character can be compared to Jack’s tribe that hunts Ralph. The Zombies in “I am Legend” have been infected with the virus KV. The virus turns regular people into “dark seekers” that have lost all ties to humanity and civility. Dr. Nevil (Will’s Character) in his log book states “Social de-evolution appears complete.” In my comparison I compared the virus to Jack. Jack has a virus like effect, he spreads from person to person through his actions and total disregard for the rules. In “I am Legend” Dr. Nevil tells the audience the virus has become air born. Jack’s infectious demeanor is air born and caught by everyone who isn’t immune. Ralph is immune to Jack’s behavior and tries to show everyone else that Jack’s behavior is wrong. This is exactly like the virus in the movie, Dr. Nevil is immune and devoted his life to finding a cure, once again a parallel to Ralph in Lord of the Flies. The cure that Dr. Nevil uses is derived from his own immunity to the virus, which is similar to the way Ralph “cures” the island and the boys. Ralph’s immunity is order and civility that is the only thing that prevents Ralph from turning into one of the savages. When the navel officer rescues Ralph and the boys he represents the life they lost- order, rules, punishments, civilization. This “cures” the boys and stops them from killing ralph.
Lord of the Flies really reminds me of The Most Dangerous Game. One reason being that the hunter reminds me of Jacks tribe when they are hunting Ralph. Also there are three "prey" humans for the hunter, they symbolize Simon, Piggy, and Ralph. The huts and water jugs symboloze the traps the prey uses to get away from the hunter. Also the dogs seem like Roger, he's Jacks dog. The man at the end of the book is the boat in the end they get away in the Most Dangerous Game movie. Also Dangerous Game movie is in black and white too along with the 1963 version of Lord of the Flies. Ralph is the prey that survives and he becomes a pacifist to savagery and the man to guns. Also i might mention that in the beginning of both books and movies the survivers are stranded on an island and they hunters and prey are nice to each other, kinda of like the beginning of Genesis too.
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I found Jack from LOTF and Daniel Plainview from There Will Be Blood to be similar in their aggression towards those who pose a threat or oppose them. Jack becomes maniacal upon arriving on the island and eventually becomes a blood-drunk hunter who is hell bent on killing any boy who threatens his power and control. While Daniel destroys his competetors with business tactics (although he too commits murder) and threats. I found this similarity to be interesting considering the age gap between the two men/boys, not to mention the 40-50 year gap their stories take place.
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Lord of the Flies is similar to a few things that I have read, seen, and heard before. The battle between a corrupt, organized society and a total free and a relatively unorganized society is like the movies Equilibrium and V for Vendetta. In Equilibrium, Jack would be like the government that uses force and drugs to make sure the people would not revolt and that they would have no emotions. Ralph would then be the main character and the other people who just want to have peace and total fairness in the whole city where the movie takes place. Piggy would be the women in the movie that gets put to death for trying to rationalize to the government that something isn't the way it should be. Lord of the Flies is different from anything I have ever heard of because it involves the struggle between young adults and children only. Most of the films and books I have seen and heard usually involve survival conflicts between adults, or an assortment of people that involve adults. Also, Lord of the Flies does not have a direct reason for why everything was in disarray. In most movies and books, there is a background to why the world has gone down the tube, and there was no direct reason given in the book to why the world was messed up.
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The Lord of the Flies and The Dark Knight are very popular subjects, both have been based on some sort of reading material and been adapted to film more than one occasion. The difference of that is Lord of the Flies is one book, while batman is a series of graphic novels, one is meant to challenge the reader and the other is to entertain the reader. Although the type of book is different they both have similarities such as both having a protagonist and an antagonist, we have Ralph and Batman, and Jack and the Joker. Ralph and Batman do what is best for its people, Ralph fights for the children while Batman fights for the city of Gotham. On the other hand Jack fights for total power while Joker fights not to be a dictator but for his own sick pleasure until he finds another way to torture someone. Now Jack and Ralph are kids while Batman and Joker are full grown adults, plus Ralph and Jack are on the same side in the beginning but in midway Jack becomes one with the mask and face paint and transforms himself to the beast. Joker has always been a freak since day one, he has worn the clown make up for a long time, he doesn’t mind that he torments women and children as long as he turns people against each other. The movies and books are both similar and are different enough to be appreciated by all.
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lord of the flies can relate to so many different things in this world. One thing being the show survivor. They are on an island, no way of knowing whats happening with the nuclear war and whatever else. The boys turn saviage. Most of them do not want to go back home. They like being out in the wild and do not want to be back wiht their parents and go back to a strict life that they had.
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