Although he is quite typical of a 12-year-old boy, Ralph also displays flashes of maturity and common sense which make him seem older. He has qualities of natural leadership such as bravery ...

in direct contrast with the boys of Lord of the Flies, whose infighting led to their signal fire dying out. But it was more than just a fire that separated the Tongan schoolboys from Ralph ...

When we read Lord of the Flies at 12 or 13, we are told it is an allegory about power. If we want to put it bluntly — and we’re 12, so of course we do — we might say that Ralph represents ...

Like Ralph, Jack has the will to lead ... swarming with winged insects, which he dubs the Lord of the Flies. (In case you didn’t know, the Hebrew translation of “lord of the flies” is ...

Lord of the Flies is an iconic 1950s story from William ... In an attempt to remain civil, the boys organise themselves, led by Ralph and supported by the group’s intellectual, Piggy.

The novel Lord of the Flies attempts to interpret man ... He combines the simple narration of a boy's adventure story ("Ralph inspected the whole thirty yards carefully and then plunged in ...