If Jack and his hunters would have been taking care of all of their responsibilities instead of just hunting all day, if they would have just been watching the fire they could have gotten off the island before anybody could get hurt, before it was a game of life and death. Hunting continually distracts the boys from their responsibilities, and it distracts them from what should be their main priority, getting off of the island. “‘There was a ship.’… Ralph brought his arm down, fist clenched, and his voice shook. ‘There was a ship. Out there.
Ralph was probably the most influential person at the beginning of the novel since he was a leader. While everyone was concerned with having fun, Ralph was more worried about doing whatever he could to get rescued. Seen in chapter 2 when Ralph says “If a ship comes near they island they may not notice us”. “We must make a fire” (38). Ralph’s ability to persuade the boys to behave civilly was most impressive until the boys slowly began to become savage.
Piggy was Ralph to blow the conch and call a meeting but ralph was scared that no one would come and say that he is going to relinquish leadership of the group. This shows that he is a failure as a leader because he has no authority over no one and a leader without any authority is no leader at all. Furthermore he does something that he said was a waste of time he goes hunting and manages to hit a boar and gets excited and wants everyone to know. Ralph is showing us that he is a failure by doing something that he wouldn’t have done in chapter 1-4. Then Ralph gets depressed again and needs piggy to cheer him up with a good idea that might help them get rescued.
Of course then Piggy was killed. This was another mistake because of many things; first of all, Piggy was a voice of reason for all of the boys on the island, even if they never really listened to him. He was very smart and resourceful. Without him the boys just became more uncivilized and ended up setting the whole island on fire to try and kill Ralph. It is also important to realize that you don’t just kill people because you feel like it, because in a civilized culture there are consequences for those types of
At this tribe, “[Jack is] going to be chief” (136) and is located on the other end of the island. Jack’s tribe focuses on hunting pigs “and forget the beast” but “leave some of the kill for it” (136) so it does not bother his tribe. Jack’s tribe seems to be enjoying themselves, but they “wore the damp darkness of the forest like [their] old clothes” (137) showing how savage they have become. Their savageness turns into the murder of Simon and gets called an “accident” (160) because the bigguns do not want to scare the littluns or themselves, but leads to the death of Piggy and the attempted killing of Ralph. Jack not only creates his own tribe but also causes the island to become very
“Hands up,’ said Jack strongly, ‘whoever wants Ralph not to be chief?’ …… ‘I’m going off by myself. He can catch his own pigs. Anyone who wants to hunt when I do can come too’ (130). Even though no one leaves with Jack all of a sudden everyone is given a choice in what kind of society they want to be in. With Jack leaving, so does their meat which represents savagery, and the id, but Ralph’s more structured society represents the super ego, which they have been growing up with all their lives.
110683 John Abney English 10CP 9 October, 2010 I.C.E. Many people are not good writers, but many people are great readers. William Golding uses a character named Ralph, because he wants to show how much of an ego he is in the book. Golding does this by three ways, through Ralphs’ actions, traits, and motivations. In the novel, “Lord of the Flies”, by William Golding he proves that Ralph is an ego in the book by keeping everyone together.
Jack is considered as controlling because he thinks everything is to go his way. For example “His specs-use them as burning glasses.” (.38) His violence makes him seem more in control and powerful by using fear to keep the other boys under his authority. Neither does home not being voted leader stop him from being reckless and trying to change the dynamics of the island. Therefore, Jack started his own group, “…my hunters will protect you from the beast who will join my tribe?” (pg.159) All the other boys wanted to remain loyal to Ralph but they began to
Jack the Tyrant In the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Jack symbolizes control and power on the island. He clearly wants to be in control when he proclaim that he “Ought to be chief… because i can sing high C” (22), and then shows disappointed when Ralph is elected by his freckles disappearing “under the blush of mortification”(23). This symbolizes how he believed he should be chief because he can sing high C. A pointless reason but starts to show his thirst for power and his resentment of Ralph after Ralph was elected over him. Again he shows this wanting control over others when they caught the first pig, and he began to realize he had the “knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken
The many decisions and events that take place are not ones for literary purposes, but instead to show the ways of humanity. For example, the death of Simon was not for the interesting plot, but to prove the overwhelming feelings the boys have towards killing the beast and the pig. This I shown through the boys not recognizing Simon, and letting the chanting and overwhelming thoughts of the hunt take over them, proving that humans often take things to a whole new level of excitement. Many of