William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is, or used to be, a staple of everyone’s teenage reading experience, a harrowing fable about how ordinary kids revert to savagery when they are marooned on a deserted island. The story is less poignant nowadays than it once was, if only because even...
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“High overhead, Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever,” (Golding 180). Not realizing the consequences, Roger releases a boulder toward Piggy, who stands on a cliff, just below Roger, unknowingly awaiting his death. In Lord of the Flies byWillia...
The most remarkable thing that can be said aboutUn Chien Andalouis that, although the imagery is deliberately random, and there is absolutely no underlying story, the mind still tries to rationalize that nonexistent story, organizing and creating symbolism where there is none. That’s actually hi...
“Easy Rider” comes alive while the Nicholson character is in the movie. That night around the campfire, he samples grass for the first time (“Lord have mercy, is that what that is?”) and then explains his theory that extraterrestrials walk among us. He uses a confiding tone, sharing...