Lord of the Flies

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   mrerick Teacher
   High School - 12th Grade

   To Ralph, fire represents all the he stands for as leader: survival and rescue.  This is evident in Ralph's use of fire on top of the mountain with lots of green branches and a constant watchman in order to produce smoke that can be seen.

   To Jack, fire represents all the primal urges.  Jack makes small fires along the beach to quickly cook pigs; he isn't interested in wasting man power on a large signal fire.  Of course at the end he uses an enormous fire to attempt to kill Ralph.

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   Posted by mrerick on Tuesday October 30, 2007 at 9:06 PM
   
   

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