He was violent in the way he treated people and the way he acted. An example of this violence was when Jim followed Edward and Kim to Edward’s house and tried to kill Edward buy shooting him. But he missed. He then started to attack Edward by hitting him with planks of wood and kicking him until Edward killed him. Jim was a bully.
As Huck escapes he leaves behind clues to mislead his father and community, “I took the axe and smashed in the door. I beat it and hacked it considerable a-doing it. I fetched the pig in, and took him back nearly to the table and hacked into his throat with the axe, and laid him down on the ground to bleed...” (33). Huck deceives his entire community, but he does it with good intention in order to escape from his harmful father. The willingness of Huck to conform to violence highlights how badly he wants to escape his community and live freely.
Stanley's animalistic personality is revealed many times throughout the play. His brutal and violent behaviour is shown through the way he treats people, through the way characters describe him, they way he intents to hurt stella and bring his sister in-law to ruins. Stanley portrays himself as a caveman rather than a civil human being. His actions are also uncouth, the first time we see him in the play he is bringing his kill home from the super market. He also yells out meat when he yells out to his wife stella.
Because Greasy Lake is an area of nature that has been corrupted by humans with broken glass and beer cans, it becomes the perfect scenery for our “bad characters” to act accordingly and “howl at the stars” the way wolves do, evoking primitive and ruthless behavior. This climaxes when conflict arises between them and the “greasy character” that they encounter at the lake. Through the narrator we see how a “murderous primal instant involving no more than 60 hyperventilating, gland flooding seconds” causes instinct to fight and kill ones attacker out of a combination of shock, rage and impotence. At one point, Jeff even bites the ear of the man, fighting the way a primitive animal would. Initially, the boys compared themselves to wolves, mentally inserting a label which enables them to embrace their primeval instincts.
This is carried on further by the different views of human beings as each writer observes different experiences during the Cold War, the time when the book was written. Firstly, both writers include a source of fear that drives the characters, and how people can be manipulated by them. For example, Jack uses fear of the ‘beast’ to get the boys on his tribe as he tells them he will hunt it down giving the boys a sense of protection and relief: ‘my hunters will protect you from the beast’. Later, even Ralph and Piggy are affected by this fear as they take part in the killing of Simon whom they mistake for the beast. Also, Bill and his group and other groups both blind and sighted are kept constantly cautious of the triffids and the spread of the unknown disease among the blind.
However, as time passes, Roger becomes more savage to the point of killing Piggy by pushing a rock off of a ledge. Golding states, “The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.” (Golding 164). The quiet Roger at the beginning has turned from civil, to messing with the littleuns, to murder. Roger’s change of mind lectures Golding’s belief that people can be pushed to such a point that their natural brutality is unveiled. Ralph, the most civilized character in the novel, finds brutality permeating through his brain.
Exposure to violence can breed violence even in those who oppose it. In the story, Lord of the Flies that is exactly what happens to the characters. Ralph loses his composure, Jack turns into a blood crazed savage and Ralph becomes part of the demented hunters. The aggressive atmosphere that thrives on that heinous island conquered the good character of the boys. Jack was the first of the boys to show signs of aggression, then it turned on his hunters, and then it took control of Ralph.
The coach accused Brian of turning his back on the team and the playoffs were cancelled because of this incident. Following this event Brian moved to a different school because of the hostile environment that came about when the Playoff games were cancelled. Brian brings about this suit under Title IX, stating that he was treated differently because he was a boy. He argues that he was told to take the locker room incident ‘like a man’ and he argues that he was given such treatment because he was a boy. Issue Did the defendant’s treat Brian differently because he was a boy claiming assault by other males?
For example some kids would want to commit suicide because they were spreading horrible rumors about them, or some kids are bullying the kid horribly. This happen at in the high school of Ohio, where a kid named Eric Mohat killed himself. He was 17 years old and he was physically harassed everyday at school, in front of teacher and they never really cared whatever happens to him. One day a kid said to him publicly in front of the class “why don’t you just go shoot yourself, no one would care” So he did. This is similar towards Matt’s situation because he was accused for bombing the school and many kids would torture him.
Postulating that indifference is a dangerous road, he wants the reader to understand that indifference can have unintended consequences that will eventually lead to atrocities. He starts putting the reader into this mind set by asking, “ what will the legacy of this vanishing century be?” (Wiesel 533). Wiesel wants to engulf the reader in a cone of tumultuous emotions so that they may be cautious and vigilant against the evils of irrelevance. He provides many examples of how indifference is dangerous and how indifference can bring about the demise of civilized society. The capacity for society to revert back into accepting atrocities is why Wiesel’s formulates his speech to caution the audience.