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Description required. In this place, one character recounts a dream about "Twisty things" among trees. A "creature that bulged" like "a great ape…sitting (20[1])asleep with its head between its knees" is seen in a patch of ashes in this place. A character who is seen "expanding like a balloon" declares "I'm (0[1])the reason (0[2])why it's no go" and says "We are going to have fun" [in this place] (20[2]0[1])before (*) Simon faints. The "littluns" (10[3]0[1])are afraid of a "beast" (10[1])in this location, which turns out to be a dead parachutist. (0[1])A pig's head is mounted on (10[1])a stick in this place, where meetings are conducted with a conch shell. For 10 points, describe this location where boys like Ralph, Jack, and Piggy are stranded in a William Golding novel. ■END■ (10[4])

ANSWER: the island from Lord of the Flies [prompt on descriptions of the setting of Lord of the Flies]
<Literature - British Literature - Long Fiction>
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