... to drugs and violence; he was ignorant but not blissful. Without knowing, he was ignorant, but he was unhappy and raging out against everything and everyone. Before he was locked up he had no interest nor had he ever thought about teaching himself, or even learning at all, to improve his reading ... or writing skills. Even though his grammar was horrible, it looked like slang, and he wrote sideways and slow, it did not even bother him. At that point, to him it was ... no way happy or blissful. Soon out of frustration and not knowing what he was reading, he decided to copy the dictionar...

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... the village of St. Columb Minor on 19 September 1911. His father was a schoolmaster and his mother was a suffragette. He is considered to be one of the most important writers of the 20th century. He is famous for writing a book called "Lord of the Flies". When he was in high ... school, 18 years old, he wrote a collection of poems called "Poems". He was educated at Marlborough Grammar school and at Brasenose College in Oxford. He was studying to be a scientist but abandoned his studies in science and started studying Literature. In his spare ... Then he decided and started writing a bo...

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Schools in the 1770's Schools back in the 1770's were very different, Massachusetts and Connecticut both had laws saying every town with fifty families or more in the town must hire a teacher and build a schoolhouse. Most schools in the 1770's had only one room; witch was freezing cold in the winter. Some towns are considered very lucky to have a schoolhouse because most towns ... on the students. They wrote on birch bark for their lessons they worked on. There were no chalkboards, globes, or maps for the children to use. The puritans believed that everyone should be able to read the bible. W...

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