... It was fun but this all seems like a blur now in comparison to what happens next. I arrived home at 1:00 in the morning. I went right to the bathroom and showered off the sweaty night of dancing. I remembered that my father was away on his annual vacation down south golfing with his friends. I decided I was going to ... on my dead mother and try to bring back air into a lifeless being. Her heart no longer beat, what would my air do? "Okay, ma'am. The police are on their way. Stay calm." That is the last thing I remember the operator saying to me. Click. "Oh my God." I clenched onto my ....

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... grassland, riceland, marshland, or pastoral solitudes where few cared to go, until the big city spilled hither, replacing the uprooted reeds with split-levels, pushing noisy little streets into the heart of the solitude, and collecting here from all over the country the uprooted souls that now moan or giggle where once the carabao wallowed and the frogs croaked day and night. In very new suburbs, one feels human sorrow ... to be a grass intrusion on the labors of nature. Even barely two years ago, the talahib still rose man-high on the plot of ground on Zapote Street where now stands th...

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... within every human heart and promising to have some "fun" with him. (This "fun" foreshadows Simon's death in the following chapter.) In this way, the Lord of the Flies becomes both a physical manifestation of the beast, a symbol of the power of evil, and a kind of Satan figure who evokes the beast within each human being. Looking at the novel in the context of biblical parallels, the Lord of the Flies recalls the devil, just as ... cool air and sweet smells, and the boys are able to play happily. By afternoon, though, the sun becomes oppressively hot, and some of the boys nap, although ...

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• Grade Level: High School