... about the boys themselves. The Lord of the Flies is an English translation of the Hebrew term "Beelzebub-, which is the personification of evil in the Judaic and Christian traditions. (Dick, Bernard F, William Golding, Twayne Publishers, New York, 1967, page 27). Golding uses the Lord of the Flies to symbolize the theme of man's inner evil. The Lord of the Flies ... also be translated as "Lord of Dung-. It is therefore not the same Satan, who tempted Christ, but rather a much more primitive, vile form of evil found inside all humans. (Dick, Bernard F. page 28) This is Golding's goal, to...

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... told his story of that fateful day. Author Graeme Culliford of the Sunday Mirror recorded his first-hand accounts. Dutch noted that after the bomb detonated, "...our radio operator Dick Nelson said something like 'We know this war is over.' We couldn't see how the Japanese would continue fighting after the power we had unleashed" (Culliford 33). Even ... ...

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