The boys split up and it’s just Ralph, Piggy, and SamnEric so Ralph has lost his leadership through the whole pack of kids. In the beginning there was order and somewhat civilization. Order is what kept the boys in line and when Ralph lost leadership and respect with the boys; order was lost and things started to get very disorienting. Piggy brought the conch to a quarrel between two boy s and in the end it was shattered which means all sanity is lost there is no hope. The boys were heading down a destructive path and their morals; what morals they have
Gene recalls Leper saying, “‘Like a savage underneath. Like,’ now there was the blind confusion in his eyes again, a wild slyness around his mouth, ‘like that time you knocked Finny out of the tree,”’ (145). Leper knows Gene’s deepest, darkest secret that, if it got back to the boys at Devon, could ruin his life there, and throw Gene into bitter isolation. Similar to jouncing Finny off the limb, this is an accident. It was a reflex, a “survival of the fittest” reaction that Gene did out of anger, fear, and confusion.
Ralph, unlike Simon, has not figured out that he is fighting not only Jack, but the evil inside all mankind. Simon had figured that out when he had his "conversation" with the pig's head. The head told Simon "I'm part of you." Since Simon's conversation was part of an epileptic hallucination, the realization that the evil is inside of man must have come from Simon himself. Unfortunately Ralph, has been so focused on trying to lead the boys, thinking they would follow him simply because he was chief.
Paragraph 1 – Language Jacks language and feelings at the beginning of the book foreshadows his violent behaviour that occurs later on in the novel. At the beginning of the novel Jack is humiliated by Ralph when Ralph is elected to be chief, suggesting that there might be tension between the boys later in the novel. This is implied when “Jacks face disappeared under a blush of mortification”. The word mortification means a feeling of humiliation or shame, as through some injury to one's pride or self-respect. This shows that Jack was hurt that the other boys did not choose him to be chief as he was leader of the choir boys.
The battle was between the only good left on the island (represented by Ralph) and the evil of dictatorship. The boys had turned into lawless animals, and were going crazy. The boys were so uncivilized, one boy forgot his own name. “Percival Wemys Madison sought in his head for an incantation that had faded clean away”. Ralph had tried to have a list of names, but Jack didn’t even bother.
[David] flinched back and he [Carl] grabbed the back of [David’s] neck with fingers like a vise. ‘You’re nothing but a lazy brat. I’m going to beat some industry into you if I have to kill you to do it.”’ (Gould, 3) David’s earlier years have been hard, resulting him being unpopular, and being unsatisfied. David begins to feel sick and tired of the abuse from his father and decides to run away from home. David starts to develop hatred towards his father, wanting to hurt and give him the pain he has felt over the years.
They lose sight that this “beast” is really Simon. The savagery that the boys have converted to is driving the boys to the point of
Sing!” (Gardner, 171) Instead of killing Grendel immediately for what trouble he has caused to Hrothgar, he decides to embarrass him and torture him because he was given the upper hand. This part of the novel probably makes the reader feel sorry for Grendel, because the excessive force Beowulf was using on him. The way Beowulf handled the situation in the novel, suggest to the reader that he is indeed not a hero. Excessive force can be seen when Grendel says, “And the bleeding sinews deep in his shoulder snapped, muscle and bone split and broke. The battle was over, Beowulf had been granted new glory: Grendel escaped, but wounded as he was could flee to his den, his miserable hole at the bottom of the marsh, only to die, to wait for the end” (Raffel, 50).
“Let’s be moving,” “we’re wasting time.” (Golding, 101). He begins to think to himself that he can lead. Jack has littluns, who are now savages, and they all think Jack can destroy everyone. These boys don’t know what they are doing, so they begin to follow in whoever’s foot steps. They all start to loose respect for one another and begin to become uncivilized
It appears that he is shouting at the boy, making the boy feel intimidated. At this point, I felt sorry for the boy as he is being put under imense pressure by Green Beret to give him the information he wants. Green Beret also says: “You’ve got one minute kid. Tell us where or we kill father... tell us where or your father – dead.” Green Beret speaks to the boy incorrectly, as you would speak to a foreigner to make sure the boy understood him. Even though, Green Beret is speaking to him using simple and easy to understand English, the boy may not have understood him, so this makes his father’s death even more shocking.