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Bullying Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

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One form of bullying that Golding expresses throughout the Lord of the Flies is physical bullying and he expresses this form much like how it is used today. Golding shows that the characters Jack and the Bigun’s are created to represent bullies throughout the book who pick on Piggy and the Littlun’s physically. When Jack lets the signal fire burn out he gets into an argument with Ralph. Piggy jumps in and adds his thoughts about the situation,”You didn’t ought to have let that fire out. You said you’d keep the smoke going.” This drove Jack to violence and he took a step and stuck his fist into Piggy’s stomach. Piggy’s glasses flew off and fell on the rocks. This shows readers that Jack bullies Piggy physically by punching him and he does …show more content…

We see this form expressed through Piggy. Towards the beginning of the book right after the first meeting on the island was held. A group of hunters formed that consists of Ralph, Jack and Simon. When Piggy wants to go along with the hunters too he is denied.”You’re no good on a job like this. Three’s enough,”(Golding, 24). Clearly Golding is foreshadowing and letting the reader know that throughout the book. Piggy will be left out of that specific group. The hunters leave out Piggy on purpose almost certainly because of his appearance. More relational bullying is between Ralph and Jack. When Ralph and Jack first get to know each other their relationship appears to be strong and they believe they can run the island by themselves. However as the story progresses readers see that Jack wants more power over the people on the island causing conflict between him and Ralph. When Jack finally has enough of Ralph being chief he calls for a meeting and asks ‘‘Who thinks Ralph oughtn’t to be chief?” (Golding, 127) and also makes Ralph look bad by say negative things about him. This shows that Jack betrays Ralph and states false things about him to embarrass him in public. This shows that all these forms of bullying is immature and these are what little kids in elementary school do when they don't get their

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