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1. stories are world imagined to see what could habe been, or what could happen. or they could be imagening alternative worlds, not just paths. they can prepare us for how we should react when this or that happen.
2. your skills in building up a story, making the framin on whichyou build the house so to speak.
3. I've always thought that parents are the people who have an obligation to teach their children right and wrong. and Lord of the flies just strenghten this, and with no adults around the children go feral.
4. most to teach either about other cultures or to teach some moral point.
5. The thought that for B to be able to happen, A must have happeed beforehand.
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7. JFK prevented more catastophies like the By of pigs.
8. Stories can help rationalize the "fault lines of reality".
9. You can imagine what could have been, You can become more rational in your thinking,

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How important is cultural or historical context to the production and reception of a text? - I would say it's very important, as different works will be recieved differently depending on where it is published. For example: the book Angels and demons (Dan Brown) will probably be recieved differently in Iraq and Spain or Lebanon and Greece.

How do we approach texts from different times and cultures to our own? -depends on the purpose of the reading, if you read for enjoyment you may not think to much about it.

To what extent do texts offer insight into another culture? -angain, this will depend of the text, for example the girl who saved the swedish king (jonas jonasson. great read!) would show how it is in the poorer parts of South Africa compared to Sweden.

How does the meaning and impact of a text change over time? -

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The book was written in 1954 by William Golding. Golding was born in 1911 in Cornwall, England.
Golding served in WW2, where he served in command of a rocket-launcher in the royal navy and participated in the invasion of Normandy.

Lord of the Flies tells the story of a group of English schoolboys marooned on a tropical island after their plane is shot down during some sort of war. Despite the fact that the novel is a work of fiction, it is based on Golding's personal experience with the violence and brutality of World War II.
This is represented with  the boys on the island resort to savagery because they are neither laws, institutions nor society.

Many interpretations of Lord of the Flies in the 1950s and 1960s claimed that the novel dramatizes the history of civilization. Some people thought the book dealt with basic moral problems like original sin and the essence of good and evil.

Others believed Golding wrote the novel as a critique of Western political and social institutions.
In the end, each of these various readings and interpretations of Lord of the Flies has some validity.

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The central conflict in Lord of the Flies is the conflict between two opposing instincts that all humans have: the instinct to live by law, behave peacefully, obey moral orders, and value the good of the community versus the instinct to satisfy one's immediate desires, act aggressively to gain control over others, and impose one's will.
Civilization vs. savagery, order vs. disorder, rationality vs. instinct, law vs. anarchy, or the wider heading of good vs. evil are all examples of this rivalry.

what did the characters leran?
how did they grow and change?
why did the characters act the way they did?
what is different at the end of the story?
what stays with you after the story is over?

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The setting is established through descriptions of the island.
The tone is mild but serious.

The novel is set on an unidentified, uninhabited tropical island in the Pacific Ocean, during a fictional worldwide war in the 1950s.

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Ralph- He is the protagonist of the novel, Ralph is a twelve-year-old English boy who is elected leader of a group of the boys stranded on the island. Ralph tries to organize the boys' efforts on the island to build a miniature civilization before they can be rescued. Ralph represents the civilizing instinct in humans, while Jack represents the savage instinct.

Jack- Jack is the novel’s antagonist, and one of the older boys stranded on the island. As the novel progresses, Jack rises to become the hunters' leader, but he yearns for complete dominance, and he becomes increasingly wild, barbaric, and cruel. Jack, who is skilled at manipulating the other boys, represents the savage instinct in humans, as opposed to Ralph's civilizing instinct.

Piggy- He is Ralph’s “lieutenant”. Piggy is a whiny, intelligent boy whose ingenuity always leads to creativity, such as the boys' makeshift sundial for telling time. Piggy reflects civilization's science and logical side.

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color meanings:
black - power and elegance
red- leadership and willpower
turqouise- emotional balance
white- perfection
gold- courage
conch- same as "national" flag

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color meanings:
blue- the ocean
green- the nature of the island
light brown/beige/sand- the sand on the island
yellow- sun
white- moon
conch- the conch used by ralph to call everyone

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The story is told through a third person perspective. this puts the reader in an "outside, looking in" potition.