Argument For Lord Of The Flies

This alternative styled essay will be comparing the beginning and the ending of the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding. The differences will be compared in the following order; emotions, goals, ways of leadership and how civil they were overall.

To start off with, at the very beginning of the book most of the boys were happy to be away from adults. They were free to do whatever they wanted and they had absolutely no rules made by said adults to follow and because of this, Ralph and many of the boys were excited for an adventure.Ralph’s feelings are hinted at in chapter one, page 18. It tells us about how he is at last in the “...imagined but never fully realized place…” We can interpret that the place he is talking about is coral island by R. M.

In the first few chapters, you will notice the at they are still holding onto the British way. Things are in order, well, as in order as they could be for a pack of young boys. Ralph and piggy attempted to keep the boys from going savage (without knowing that was what they were doing at the time) by putting down rules everyone had to follow. Despite their hard work, the majority of the boys became savage anyways and they had almost completely abandon who they used to be. They, with the exception of Ralph, forget all the order they once had when Ralph was their leader, as well as basic human morals. One surprising aspect of the book is how quickly all the boys lost their way of being civil, some characters were even showing signs of becoming savage in the beginning of the book.

The novel Lord of the Flies’ beginning and ending had their differences but they also shared slight similarities. The characters emotions, goals, ways of leadership and how civil they were over all contrasted at the two different times in the plot, but that just makes the storyline that much