The Lord Of The Flies: A Picture Of Our Society Today

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mini-society started off peaceful. The purpose was to set a
signal fire and live off fruit until help came. The conflict came when
the fire and hunting could not be committed to at the same time. As the
fire was a 24 hour task and hunting needed the whole party, the party
started to take sides. Ralph's fire would be the sensible thing to do to
get rescued however hunting would lift the standard of living for all the
boys and would also be a luxury, recreational event. The fire was hard
work and immediate results were none even though long-term results would
be better. The hunting side wins eventually. In Australia today we are
spending beyond our ability to afford this spending. This means we have a
great influx of goods and services but as a community we are cheating
ourselves as this leads to a current account deficit and the cost of
living in this deficit must be paid plus the deficit. In this book's case,
the deficit was their morals and the interest was paid in ...

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