How Did Ralph Able To Build Tension In Lord Of The Flies

Then, Big Rabbit replied to his question in a calm tone for Little Rabbit. "The Terrible Things do not need a reason. Just be glad it was not us they wanted. "In other words, this explains the whole theme of the allegory. The other creatures had fear of the Terrible Things, that is why they were never brave enough to stand up and defend themselves or their friends.

Merridew is the one character who tends to make it harder for the rest of the characters in the novel. Jack never can agree with the entire group, unless in consists with hunting or being in power, which this says a lot about his personality. In the novel Jack ends up letting the fire out. Infuriating Ralph because he seen a ship off the horizon going a different direction. The ship did not see the smoke to rescue the boys from the island because Jack was more worried about hunting a pig instead of maintaining the fire while the others worked on other things for the camp.

That line shows how restricted their society is science and technology can never advance because everyone has to understand something if they want to use or make it. Equality's light box works but they say it is not real because not everyone does not understand or agree on it. In addition when someone says the forbidden word they get burned at the stake and everyone has to watch. “ We have seen one of such men burned alive in the square of the city.”(pg49) The forbidden word is forbidden because it is a transgression to think by oneself. Equality is struggling to find the word the whole novel and when he see “I” at the end of the book he breaks down in tears on the floor.

Toward the end of the novel, Carlson is very insensitive to the fact that George had to kill Lennie, and is still in shock. He says, “Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin’ them two guys?”(107). Carlson just doesn't understand what it's like to lose a strong relationship, because he never had one. Therefore, he is extremely insensitive to George. Another example is when Carlson wanted to shoot Candy’s dog.

An incident occurred between a father and his son, where the son murdered his father for a ration of food. Also a Gypsy had attacked Elie’s father when he asked where the bathrooms were. Sadly, Elie doesn’t escape this horrific fate. When his father had grown sick, he had to stay in a cabin with others who were sick as well. Elie tried to help him, but he soon grew tired of helping his father and felt relieved when his father had died; he felt free.

Many people, including Scout, Jem, and Dill, are afraid of things Boo hasn’t done. Furthermore, Boo always stays home, which makes others think Boo’s father has been punishing him for his actions. Yet this isn’t true, as Jem states, “...when I was your age...(I thought) if there’s just one kind of folks, why can’t they get along with each other?... Scout… I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time...it’s because he wants to stay inside” (227). Boo is actually scared of the world because he knows it’s cruel and unforgiving at times.

They had lots of disscusions on the beastie and the fear towards the beatie was too immense for the boys. They were slowly forgetting about the outside world once the boy considered the dead parachutist as the beastie and not as a parachutist. Chapter 8 1. Why do the boys refuse to vote for Jack as chief but slip off to join him later? The boys were afraid to say no to Ralph.

They start worshipping the beast and giving it different thing to not make it attack them. They scapegoat the beast by saying they cannot climb the mountain because the beat is there and because they can 't climb the mountain, they cant reach civilization. The fear that the characters have compared to the fears of people in the real world are the same: they don 't want to accept their negatives. All-in-all, both the “Lord Of The Flies” and the real world relate because the evil inside humans energizes when they was power, pride or are scared. And they want to be viewed as the best by everyone else which causes

Then right after that the creature had to figure out how the world works with no help like if he was a newborn baby. The creature wonders through the woods all alone and scared but he had encounter somethings while he was wondering around. Not only that but he is set to figure out his way around with no one to help. Also, if he goes up to someone they would feared him because of his appearance and would want to kill him. So, I think that the creature is human.

i just think you’ll get back alright.” (pg.111) 8. The fire goes out because no one is tending the fire and instead they went hunting. Jack and the hunters with him seem not to care about the fire at all. Ralph on the other hand was very disappointed that the fire went out and that without the fire the ships that pass by won 't be able to notice the signal. “they let the bloody fire go out.”