Lord Of The Flies Vs Reality Tv Analysis

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Entertainment can come in many forms such as reality tv or books. Although they differ in many ways, they also have similarities. Both include suspense, conflicts, and even violence. Reality tv and Lord of the Flies share all these characteristics. Lord of the Flies is a gruesome tale of young British kids on an island trying to survive and keep their sanity. However, this story has some connections with our modern reality tv. In Lord of the Flies, it depicts these young boys starving and having diarrhea but they use more competent adults in reality tv. Things on reality tv aren’t viewed the same by people from different ages. Young children shouldn’t be exposed to things on tv that they don’t have a good understanding of because it could have a negative effect on their behaviour. All the drama and violence could make them …show more content…

The book itself is hard to follow and difficult to understand at certain points. All the vocabulary in the book wouldn’t even be understood by young children, they’d have to look up many words and it would take too much time to finish reading it. Also, they wouldn't understand the symbols and the character development that takes place in the book because everything in Lord of the Flies is explained through indirect characterism. Even though children who read Lord of the Flies have the same mentality and thoughts as some of the characters from the book since they are also kids and could probably relate to them, they wouldn’t be able to follow up with the meaning of the book and how the characters develop into either positive or negative people. They simply wouldn’t be able to understand what happens in the book and why it happened because they haven’t had much experience in life with situations like that. Lord of the Flies and reality tv influence and have a great impact on many people, especially those who are still growing and developing, like young

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