The boys aren’t mature enough to realize that they are stuck on an island, nobody knows where they are, and they are probably going to die there. All the boys other than Ralph, Piggy, and Simon are completely oblivious to the fact that they need to be rescued, or they will die. All the others care about is having fun, hunting, and acting like a little tribe of savages. Hunting is what’s most important to most of the boys. 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.
This is exactly what happened to the boys in Lord of the Flies. Ralph, Piggy, Jack and the other stranded students find themselves on a deserted island. When kids got to the deserted island after the plane crashed they had to survive without adult help. In the civilization vs. savagery allegory Ralph is part of civilization. He represents reason and leadership.
There is a naturally good quality about him that is innate, not taught by society. One night while Jack's tribe of hunters is performing a hunting ritual around the fire, Simon has discovered that there really is no beast at all and that the beast simply lives within the boys. "Simon became inarticulate in his efforts to express mankind's essential illness" (Golding, 89). Simon runs out through the jungle to tell the boys; however, the boys are so caught up in the ritual that they think that Simon is the beast and attack him ultimately killing him. Simon is never able to teach the boys that there is no beast.
Tarjah Faikai CP English 1 Mrs. Power 12/15/13 Lord of the Flies essay Lord of the Flies is a novel written by William Golding. Lord of the Flies tells the story of a group of schoolboys from Britain whose plane is shot down over deserted island. There are no rules or adults on the island, so the boys begin to turn to savages. Ralph’s inability to persuade the boys to behave civilly shows the potential evil in everyone. Ralph was probably the most influential person at the beginning of the novel since he was a leader.
The boys are slowly turning barbaric towards their actions and fellow companions. In the lord of the flies, the boys land on the islands as civilized young adult but as time progresses they begin to lose sight of their moral values. By the boys losing sight of morality it leads them to savage behaviors. Do we become savages when we are not under control by law & order or are we just born savages? The barbaric life style that the boys decide to portrait leads them into chaos, envy, arguments, and murder threw out the novel.
For example, they didn’t have a well thought out system for the leadership roles on the island. Also, these schoolboys allowed themselves to become savages. For instance, immediately after the boys are together for the first time on the island, they try to make
As Boo had made mistakes in his life as any other person in society has, he was never forgiven. His fate, which was decided by his dad, was to have no contact outside of the Radley house. This choice had expelled Boo from ever truly feeling any relationship of what so ever, and was always cut off if he had ever. This was displayed in chapter 7 when Boo had formed some connection between Scout and Jem such as leaving presents from them in the tree knot hole; later then Boo’s brother Nathan poured cement in the hole. This demonstrated that Boo had no connections to anyone outside his house since he was not allowed to have one which made misery rain on him.
The theme of the novel Lord of the Flies is the loss of innocence. In the beginning of the novel, the boys were stranded on the island at just the age to leave the idealism and face the reality of the real world. The boys were orderly children who were waiting for rescue, but the hunters have no desire to return back to civilization, which led into the hunters losing the sense of innocence. The deeper the novel gets we being to see the “beast” inside the children come out. As they were on the island the children started to fight but then it started to end as them torturing and killing one another.
The Characters Opposition After a plane crash in the ocean, numerous boys find themselves stranded on an island. Ralph, now becoming the leader, organizes the boys and forms a democratic society. Although, Jack, the rebel, starts to neglect all of the rules and with reason tries to steal the power from Ralph. The group ends up splitting into two groups; one under Ralph’s leadership and another under Jack’s control. They proceed by doing many things they regret.
After reading The Lord of the Flies and watching Cast Away, I know that being trapped and isolated on an island will change you. In The Lord of the Flies, the boys were stuck on the island and they lost the morals and values they learned from back home. Being trapped on an island also makes you have to adapt to your new lifestyle. The boys changed the way they dresses, how they acted, what they ate, and what they needed to do to survive. Chuck from Cast Away also needed to learn to adapt to his new lifestyle living alone on the island.