SURVIVAL Part 1

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SURVIVAL Part 1

• It is approximately 10 AM in mid-August and you
  have just crash landed in the Sonora Desert in
  the southwestern United States. The flight twin
  engine plane, containing the bodies of the pilot
  and the co-pilot, has completely burned. Only
  the air frame remains. None of the rest of you
  have been injured.

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• The pilot was unable to notify anyone of your
  position before the crash.
• The immediate area is quite flat and, except for
  occasional barrel and saguaro cacti, appears to
  be rather barren. The last weather report
  indicated the temperature would reach 110 F
  today.
• You are dressed in lightweight clothing
  short-sleeve shirts, pants, socks and street
  shoes. Everyone has a handkerchief.

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Before the plane caught fire your group was able
to salvage the following 15 items

• Flashlight
• Jackknife
• Sectional air map of the area
• Plastic raincoat
• Magnetic compass
• Compress kit with gauze
• .45 caliber pistol (loaded)
• Parachute (red and white)
• Bottle of salt tablets (1000 tablets)
• 1 litre of water per person
• Book entitled Edible Animals of the Desert
• Pair of sunglasses per person
• 2 litres of 180 proof vodka
• 1 top coat per person
• Cosmetic mirror

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SURVIVAL Part 2

• You and a group of your classmates are going to
  Florida for Christmas break. The plane is
  hijacked. Without allowing the pilot to radio
  for instructions, the hijackers direct the plane
  to Australia. At the first refueling stop, the
  hijackers release everyone over thirty which
  leaves only you and your friends. During the
  flight over the Pacific, the crew attempts to
  subdue the hijackers. In the ensuing battle, all
  are killed but the pilot, who has been mortally
  wounded, and the passengers who were on the floor
  of the plane during the gunfight. Holding the
  plane on course as long as he can, the pilot
  crashes just off the shore of an island. When
  the plane cracks open on a coral reef, you and
  your friends successfully swim to shore. As all
  of you stand ashore watching the plane sink, you
  realize that no one knows where you are, that you
  have nothing with you, and that you might be on
  the island for quite some time, perhaps forever.
  The climate is tropical the island is covered
  with fruit trees, and its apparently uninhabited
  except for the twelve of you.

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• List five things from your present life that you
  will miss the most.
• Try to decide whether the possession of some of
  these things would mark you as a civilized
  person.
• What are some of the long range plans you would
  have to implement to create a new life for
  yourselves on the island?
• How would your group handle the inevitable
  personality clashes that would occur?
• What would be the biggest problem you personally
  would face?

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Lord of the Flies
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William Golding (1911-1993)

• Born in Cornwall, UK.
• His father was a science teacher and his mother
  supported the moderate campaign for female
  suffrage.
• In 1930 he attended Oxford University studying
  Natural Sciences but later transferred to English
  Literature.
• During WWII he fought in the Royal Navy and was
  briefly involved in the pursuit and sinking of
  Germanys mightiest battleship, the Bismarck.
• He achieved international fame and wide critical
  acceptance with his novel, Lord of the Flies. He
  described it as an attempt to trace the defects
  of society back to human nature.

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• Lord of the Flies is a frightening and realistic
  story about a group of English schoolboys between
  five and twelve years of age, who are cast away
  on a coral island in the Pacific.
• The boys have been brought up with the
  restrictions and disciplines of civilized life.
  For a short while they follow the orderly
  patterns of living which they have been
  accustomed to under a democratic system of
  government. Gradually, however, this way of life
  breaks down as the boys give way to their fear of
  an unknown source of evil.
• At last they turn to savagery, superstition, and
  tyranny as way of coping with their fears.

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• At an allegorical level, the central theme is the
  conflicting impulses toward civilizationlive by
  rules, peacefully and in harmonyand towards the
  will to power. Different subjects include the
  tension between groupthink and individuality,
  between rational and emotional reactions, and
  between morality and immorality.

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Characters

• Ralph
• Jack
• Piggy
• Roger
• Simon
• Sam and Eric
• The Parachuted Figure
• Littluns
• Phil
• Percival

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Views on Human Nature Sigmund Freud

• There are five themes in Freuds theory
• Humans are highly irrational in terms of their
  motivation.
• Children are not innocent Freud would even say
  children are savage-like.
• Childhood is the critical phase of life,
• Most human behavior is cause by factors unknown
  to the individual.
• The unconscious is the most important part of the
  mind it is always present in our actions.

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Title Beelzebub

• Beelzebub was a god who was worshipped far and
  wide in Palestine and adjacent countries.
• To the Jews he came to be the chief
  representative of false gods, and he held a
  prominent place in their hierarchy of demons.
• Goldings use of the title has double meaning
  Simon, the symbol of absolute good, see the pigs
  head with warming flies as the symbol of absolute
  evil. Jacks tribe has created a shrine for the
  head. They are worshipping the false god,
  Beelzebub or Lord of the Flies.

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Terms you already know

• Antagonist and Protagonist
• Character Foils
• Conflict
• Deus Ex Machina
• Dynamic, Round, Flat, Static, or Stock Character
• Dilemma
• Point of View First Person, Dramatic, Limited
  Omniscient, Objective, Omniscient
• Indeterminate, Happy or Unhappy, Surprise Ending
• Moral
• Suspense

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Other terms

• Allegory Golding employs symbolic characters,
  actions, and settings to express his belief that
  human nature is essentially evil.
• Chronological order arrangement of events
  according to time.
• Foreshadowing a hint of suggestion of events or
  characteristics yet to be revealed.
• Inherent existing as an essential part
  intrinsic, innate, inborn.
• Irony incongruity between what is expected and
  what actually occurs. Being stranded on a
  beautiful island without adults seems like a
  dream come true, but it becomes a nightmare.
• Microcosm literally small world a
  representative society intended to be typical of
  the world at large. Golding selected his
  characters for universality that could be
  expanded far beyond the tiny island.
• Motivation the reasons underlying the behavior
  of a character. In the works of a good writer,
  the characters motivation will be so skillfully
  presented that his behavior will seem not only
  possible but probable.