Lord of The Flies essay The average amount of homicides each year in the USA is 26,031. With statistics like this, it is conceivable to believe that humans are inherently evil. The discussion surrounding human nature has often been the topic of discussion and is explored in many literary works such as, Lord of the flies, To Kill A Mockingbird, and The Hunger Games. In Golding's novel, Lord of the Flies, Golding portrays human nature as inherently evil, which is an accurate depiction of the selfishness and violence of humanity. Golding presents human nature as inherently evil through the selfishness of Jack and his hunters. Jack and his hunters had the job of looking over the fire in hope of a ship seeing the fire and saving the boys. Jack and the hunters abandoned the fire because they were bloodthirsty for a pig. …show more content…
24 children are forced to fight to the death until only one is left surviving. The tributes are forced into tubes and put into an arena with no way to get out until only one remains. When the Games start Katniss runs for a survival bag and when she arrives at the bag a boy from district nine is there as well. As they are fighting over the bag when Katniss watches “the boy slips to the ground. That’s when I see the knife in his back” from behind the boy she “can hear the blade whistling toward me and reflexively hike the pack up to protect my head” (Collins 212). As Katniss is running into the woods for shelter, she turns around to “About a dozen or so tributes are hacking away at one another at the horn. Several lie dead already on the ground” and sees others fleeing into the woods as well (Collins 213). Through the forced violence of killing to stay alive this expresses evil human nature. In the modern world people get into conflicts from an outside/ inside force and will fight until potential