His fearlessness shines through and reveals that he is not afraid of the beast. The fear the others have does not hold Simon back from doing the right thing. Simon goes off by himself and sees Jack kill the sow and put the head on the stick as an offering to the beast, after this he has a vision that the pig’s head is talking to him as the Lord of the
“We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are the best at everything.” Jack wants some rules so that the boys can behave while he focuses on himself and so that he can hunt. “I painted my face, I stole up. Now you eat, all of you, and I.” Jack wants everyone to appreciate him for his kill.
At first the conch was what brought the boys together, and it was what made them vote for Ralph to be chief. Everybody was perfectly fine and happy with Ralph as their leader until Jack started challenging his authority. Jack caused everybody to drift away from the civilization associated with Ralph and the conch, and push them towards the savageness associated with the beast and the “fun” of hunting and killing. ”’Seems to me we ought to have a chief to decide things.’… This toy of voting was almost as pleasing as the conch…’Him with the shell.’…’Let him be chief, with the trumpet thing.’” (Golding p. 24) Everybody voted Ralph for chief, other than Jack and the choir. The only reason they voted for Ralph was because he had the conch.
Simon holds a separate persona from the other castaways in the story because he not only is the depicted “goody-goody” of the group, in that he always follows humane morals and is usually a sin-free, secluded person, he remains neutral in the conflict of civilization vs. savagery, and his bright eyes (besides Piggy’s glasses), also show an example of vision and truth. “’You’ve noticed, haven’t you?’ Jack put down his spear and squatted. ‘Noticed what?’ ‘Well. They’re frightened’ He rolled over and peered into Jack’s fierce, dirty face. ‘I mean the way things are.
It is evident when he and his men were instructed by Captain Leather to go to the crater. Robert tried to explain to his captain the dangers of going to the crater but Captain Leather didn’t bother to hear his opinion and said “Just so...” (Findley 129) Being a lower ranked soldier, Robert followed the orders and did what was told whether he considered it iniquitous. Robert’s obedience was first seen when he was put in charge to kill the wounded horse, he hesitated at first then eventually dealt with the difficulty of killing it. The tasks given to Robert caused his violent side to emerge. In the beginning, it was apparent that Robert couldn’t harm anyone, even a rabbit and “Robert had never aimed a gun at anything.”(Findley 24) As the story proceeded, Robert was then aware of the war and learned how to kill.
Wes did not feel badly about this and went on doing his job – the job his father had handpicked for him. Julian was totally racist towards the Indians. They were nothing to him and he treated them lower than animals. He couldn’t see anything wrong with Frank’s activities and tried to excuse it saying he always had a preference ‘red meat’. He was a brute and a bully and all of his relationships with others were shallow as a
Ralph seems to know what needs to be done to be able to get rescued and knows that leadership is required. Ralph is the natural choice to the boys is to be the leader. While the other boys are concerned with avoiding work and having
He has a lot of patience for him, because he knows that nobody else would want to take care of him, they’ll put Lennie in a cage and lock him up, like a wild animal and George he will feel the guilt if he lets that happen. But at times George gets frustrated at Lennie and snaps because of what Lennie commits. It is clearly stated “Listen you crazy bastard,” he said fiercely” Don’t you even take a look at that bitch’ ” (Steinbeck, 32). Even though he is caught up in these tight situations he still holds on to their bond because he knows that he is there for Lennie and Lennie is there for him. The relationship he has with Lennie is not an equal relationship, due to t he fact that George is always protecting Lennie from the dangers he is exposed to and causes a huge negative impact on
It is here that Ralph best demonstrates his superiority for leadership, displaying the most calm of any of the characters and encouraging the others to be confident in their rescue. Ralph is established here not only as a political leader but also as a parental figure whose job is to reassure the scared boys and protect them from their own fears and doubts. Golding continues to present Ralph as a calming, authoritative presence among the boys. When fear sets in among some of the younger boys, only Ralph has the presence to restore order and hope. Despite Piggy's clear thinking and appraisal of their situation, his contentious manner and rude dismissal of the younger boys unfortunately causes his ideas to be dismissed.
The great Gatsby homework: Chapter 1: 1. My respond to Nick Carraway’s quote in chapter one is that we shouldn’t judge people. As how his father once told him “Just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” His father gave Nick this wise advice to let him know that judging others only is a scandalous thing to do , how can you judge someone if you don’t know what they been through. He is mainly saying you don’t know anything about that person’s life how can you assume stuff and compare it with yours and criticize. I fully agree with Nick’s father point of view on this situation due to the fact that he has all reasoning to make this statement it’s foolish of people to criticize one whom you don’t know anything about.