![]() Ralph ends up running for his life, finds out that they’re planning on killing him as well, and makes it to the shore of the island where he runs into an officer of the British Navy. When Ralph and Piggy decide they want to calmly discuss the situation with the hunters, Roger pushes a huge boulder off a cliff, killing Piggy. Soon after, Jack's crew attacks Ralph and Piggy and steals Piggy's eyeglasses to make fire on their own. They throw Simon’s body into the ocean, while Ralph and Piggy convince themselves that they didn't murder Simon. Simon shows up to the feast, still covered in blood, and tries to tell them about the beast, but he is unrecognizable and the boys stab him until he's dead. At this point in the story, Ralph and Piggy are attending a feast that Jack planned. Despite all this, he decides to continue up the mountain to face the “beast”. Simon passes out, gets a bloody nose, and wakes up covered in sweat and blood. Simon stares at the head, which he calls "the Lord of the Flies" as it tells him that it is the beast and that it is part of him. They decide to slaughter the pig and cut off her head, and jam it onto a stick in the ground. Most of the older kids go with him, and Simon, hiding, watches Jack and his new crew hunt a pig. He decides to separate and invites whoever wants to come with him and kill. He goes off into the woods to contemplate the situation while Jack and Ralph try to find the beast but don't stick around long enough to see that it is in fact only a dead man.īack in the group, Jack decides Ralph shouldn't be chief anymore. Only Simon is skeptical, believing instead they're really just afraid of themselves. The man is mistaken for the beast, and the boys begin a massive hunt to kill it. Throughout the same period of time, a dead man attached to a parachute lands on the island. Jack has also managed to punch Piggy in the face and break one lens of his glasses. While they were out hunting, they realize that the fire went out and a ship passed by without noticing them. ![]() Also occurring, the boys who are supposed to be tending the fire skip out on their duties to kill a pig. Meanwhile, a wise and philosophical boy named Simon, works with Ralph to build shelters. The longer they're on the island, the more savage he becomes. Jack decides the boys should devote their energies to hunting food instead of maintaining the fire. They're afraid of a "beast" somewhere on the island, and then they decide to build a signal fire using the glasses of a boy named Piggy. Fights begun to erupt as duties are not being completed. The boys soon develop into a daily pattern of life, where the little boys spend most of the day searching for food and the rest hunt. Jack, who was the leader of the hunter group, convinced the rest of the group to join this civilized manner. However, he had to make sure they all stayed on task. It is apparent that Ralph adores the island when, “…he laughed delightedly again and stood on his head” (Golding, 4). At first, everyone is excited about living on such a fantastic island filled with flowers, fruit, and swimming pools. Ralph, the charismatic and newly elected leader of the young boys’ parliament, is absolutely committed to civilization and morality, and is determined to make sure the boys survive and be rescued. In the beginning, human influence was starting to affect this uninhabited “Garden of Eden”. Lord of the Flies has remained a very controversial novel to this day with its startling, brutal, and truthful picture of the human nature. ![]() A contemporary issue that is currently ongoing would be the constant wars in the world that are focused on gaining power or religion, yet we still claim to be a civilized society. The major theme presented in Lord of the Flies by William Golding, is the battle between civilization vs savagery, shown through Ralph, who represents law and order, and Jack, who represents savagery and violence. The children in the Lord of the Flies represent two opposing sides in the format of the peaceful, intelligent and "sane" against the wild, rough and insane children. We each choose to live by one or the other depending on how we feel is the correct way to live. Our civilized will has been to live morally by law and order, and our savage will has been to act out for our own selfish needs. The human mind is made of up two instincts that constantly have conflict: the instinct to live by society’s rules and the instinct to live by your own rules. Without laws, society would crumble and mass destruction would occur like in the book. It conveys that laws are needed to provide guidance and provide a systematic way of life. Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, shows how children would act if placed in an environment without any rules or guidance.
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