Please help. Lord of the Flies:

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'How Does the Way in Which Ralph, Jack, Piggy and Simon, Present Their Speeches, Reveal Their Characters in the Solutions They Suggest?'

Please help improve this essay title.

In the solutions suggested by R, J, P and S, how does each person's presentation of his speech reveal his character?

What do we learn about the characters of XY and Z, form the way they present solutions to the problems presented by island survival?

There are two ideas here - solutions reveal characters, and presentations reveal characters. What do you want to know about?

Or is it the presentation of their solutions that reveals character?

How are the characters of R,J,P and S revealed by their presentation of solutions?

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Thanks for responses. It was my son's English homework. He asked me to read it for him. I thought it was all fine apart from that title which was unintelligable.

Ooo we have just done an essay on the development of the relationship of Ralph and Jack throughout the book.

DS got A- - so maybe if we get your title we could swap!!

Did you pick up that they were rampant homosexuals?

oo that is such a lovely one for pedants' corner

1. Remedial capitalisation course urgently required.
2. What Is That Comma Doing After "Simon", Eh? Eh?
3. Quite a tricky little number about "Way" when applied to several characters' respective approaches. Should it be "Ways"? should it be "Respective Ways"?
4. Another tricky one about the plural possessives. "His Respective" Speech/Character would be accurate, but does it need to be so technical?

It would be much better as an anchoring statement, followed by the question: "In Chapter [ ], each of Ralph, Jack, Piggy and Simon makes a speech about [whatever it is - problems of island, whatever] and suggesting his own solutions. How does the speech each boy chooses to make, and the way in which he makes it, reveal his character?"

That title was presumably set by an English teacher. Sigh...

Yes, set by the English teacher. I have written him an email.

OMG the English teacher set the title - I thought it had been thought up by your DS!

You could (and should, IMO) cut out "in which" altogether, and leave it as "the way Ralph, Jack..."

There are two redundant commas, one after "Present", one after "Speeches".

It's a long time since I read the book, so I'm assuming the question makes sense in terms of some special situation where they make "speeches" and offer "solutions". (Is it when they're holding the conch?) I mean, I hope he isn't using "solutions" in the same sloppy way it's used in business these days - "plumbing solutions", "investment2 solutions, "catering" solutions, etc.