Evil In Lord Of The Flies Research Paper
Martin Luther King Jr. once said “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” Evil comes in many forms resembling events like terrorist attacks and crimes such as burglaries, rapes, hit and runs, plus more. No matter how small the evil may seem it always has its companion, fear. Fear is able to consume even the smallest of children and make evil seem much more extreme than it has to be. Evil is something that you can overpower or it can overpower you no matter the age in the novels Lord of the Flies, I am Malala, and the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, numerous littluns were frightened on the island especially in a place with no adults. It might seem like freedom to them but was also an alarming feeling. On the island, the boys made up a beast
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The book came out in October of 2012 which is around the time the Taliban had taken over many Pakistan cities including her home. The Taliban was a type of evil that only wanted a dictatorship where they run the countries in fear. “‘If we did not change our ways and introduce shariat or islamic law, they shouted in their thundering voices, more severe punishment would come’” (Yousafzai 57). Malala grew up in this environment and claims to hear the bombs go off every night near her own window but although this was happening in her life, she wanted females to be learning how to read, write, and fend for themselves in this time of war. She stood up for women's education which got her shot on a bus on her way to school. Most people would like the evil sink in, let the will to live die, but she healed and told her story instead to help and inspire the people in Pakistan plus around the
The book came out in October of 2012 which is around the time the Taliban had taken over many Pakistan cities including her home. The Taliban was a type of evil that only wanted a dictatorship where they run the countries in fear. “‘If we did not change our ways and introduce shariat or islamic law, they shouted in their thundering voices, more severe punishment would come’” (Yousafzai 57). Malala grew up in this environment and claims to hear the bombs go off every night near her own window but although this was happening in her life, she wanted females to be learning how to read, write, and fend for themselves in this time of war. She stood up for women's education which got her shot on a bus on her way to school. Most people would like the evil sink in, let the will to live die, but she healed and told her story instead to help and inspire the people in Pakistan plus around the