The Lord of the Flies explores the facts that some children can become savages and start to kill anything blindly that can get in their way. The Lord of the Flies starts out with Ralph meeting Piggy. Their conversation started out with the background of the situation and thinking they were the only ones on the island. More boys appeared from sea. All the boys were on the same plane and crashed but made it out separately and at different times. The boys lost their innocence when they began killing the mama pig, then the little boy named Simon, and they are hunting the boy named Ralph.
In the book, The Lord of the Flies, Jack and his hunters, the boys that have gone savage and lost their innocence, have been hunting for pigs to eat for food for
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Jack and the hunters, “death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily,” don 't feel bad for killing the mama pig. “The beast struggled forward, broke the ring and fell over the steep edge of the rock to the sand by the water. At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt onto the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.” (Golding 156) Simon was the only one who was not there because he went to find the beast. When Simon came back, he drags a dead parachutist down the mountain to bring to the boys during their feast and while he was dragging him as he came out the forest, according to the boys he seemed “sketchy” and “like a beast figure,” so they all ran toward Simon and attacked him. Mainly Jack and his hunters murdered him because they were in the front of the circle. Ralph, Piggy, Sam, and Eric were towards the back of the circle so they didn’t do as much harm as the others did. When Jack and his hunters killed Simon, they realized who it was but only Ralph, Piggy, Sam, and Eric felt guilt. Jack and his hunters said he had it coming and he deserved it because of the way he came out of the …show more content…
Ralph was on his own because Jack and the hunters killed off both Simon and Piggy. Jack and the hunters were hunting down Ralph like he was a pig. “There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.” Before Jack and the hunters were hunting Ralph, Ralph said to Jack, “You 're a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!” (Golding 163) Jack has turned savage and started to attack not only Ralph, but about all of the kids on the island with him minus
Simon is in the woods and sees the pigs head on stick, it then starts talking to him. He is supposedly the “lord of the flies” and promises Simon he is going to have some fun with the boys, Simon then faints. Simon awakens and stumbles up the mountain, where he finds the beast is actually the dead parachutist. He then goes as quickly as he can to inform the others. Ralph's tribe go to Jacks tribes party.
(Golding, 61) Ralph influenced many people to also have hope. Piggy and Simon (without Ralph) would have easily just gone with Jack and nothing would have happened. Jack wouldn’t (and didn’t) even have the intellect to connect fire with rescue without Ralph. Jack could care less about the fire, unless for cooking his meat of course. Ralph keep everyone on track as long as he could.
Ralph contributed to Simon’s death when he got caught will the dance and all of the others. They were all dancing around the fire while one of them was acting like a pig, and they saw something come out of the forest and thought it was the “beast”. All of the boys went after this thing and killed it with their teeth and claws, but later they realized it was actually Simon. All of the boys contributed to this death including Ralph. Ralph was also a bad leader because he did not have the guts to fight Jack back.
The boys killed a mama pig horrifically and offered it to the Lord of the Flies. Then Simon died by being stabbed and beaten to death. At the end the boys hunted Ralph and were planning to kill him, until the officer came to the rescue. The schoolboys have lost their innocence and nothing will ever be the
they tear apart Simon with their bare hands and teeth, brutally killing him. But that isn’t the end of it. The next day, when the attempt to retrieve Piggy’s specs goes terribly wrong, resulting in the death of Piggy, Jack gives up hunting pig. His hatred for Ralph mixed with his savage thirst for blood drives him to start hunting Ralph. This leads to one of my favorite quotes in the entire book: in Chapter 12, “They were all running, all crying out madly.
Ralph is one of the oldest boys on the islands, he was elected as leader at the beginning of the book. Ralph treats all the boys with respect throughout the book even when he begins to lose sanity himself. Ralph organizes all the boys in hope to keep them alive until they get saved, he makes them build shelters, keep the fire burning, and keep them all fed. Constantly throughout the book Ralph tries to keep the boys civilized whereas Jack does the opposite.
The killings of Simon and Piggy can lead to mental issues, such as PTSD. A study by Matteo Fabris and Claudio Longobord states, “Homicide offenders have a higher frequency of PTSD than violent offenders who have not committed murder.”. Ralph, who was involved in both murders, would be greatly affected mentally and possibly develop PTSD. Another feeling Ralph felt was grief. On page 158 it says, “Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy.”
By this point every child on the island has some belief that the beast is real and it is in the jungle. Jack uses this idea to ruin any hold on civilization the boys may have left. He leaves them worried and scared and the hold that Ralph had on them in the beginning fades quickly. He is longer able to control them or keep them safe from their nightmares. By the end of this chapter the boys slowly fade into Jacks group and thin only increases his savagery and furthers him from civilization.
Once Piggy dies, Ralph is on the defense and is told to hide. Jack will stop at nothing to get Ralph’s blood and begins to pursue him throughout the jungle. Towards the end of the search, Ralph is spotted, and they try to kill him. The extent of which they try to kill him is shown in the quote: “He swerved as a spear flew past and was silent, running, all at once the lights flickering ahead of him merged together, the roar of the forest rose to a thunder and a tall bush directly in his path burst into a great fan-shaped flame”(199). They are willing to burn the island down in order to kill Ralph.
Quote: “Jack’s in charge of the choir. They can be--what do you want them to be?” asked Ralph. “Hunters,” replied Jack "I cut the pig's throat," said Jack, proudly. "I painted my face-- I stole up.
Jack’s influence among the boys has been gradually growing, and calling his own meeting grants him with more immediate power than he has ever had before. Jack instantly abuses this power by unjustly criticizing Ralph and challenging his authority, demonstrating that no one on the island can hold a position of power without quickly abusing it. Shortly after, Jack forms his own band of hunters, giving him even more power to toy around with, and it doesn’t take long for him to begin to abuse it. For what appears to be no reason, Jack decides that he’s “Going to beat Wilfred…. He got angry and made [the other boys] tie Wilfred up.”
Although Ralph may be a good leader and Piggy may be smart, they both have evil inside of them and want to be a part of Simon’s murder. Ralph and Piggy are nowhere near being savages at this point, but their love of death still shows, even if they regret it later. Their savagery is just the result of the evil human nature inside of them that is left unchecked by civil society. On the island, the boys do not have the benefit of civilization, so they revert to human nature and instinct for survival.
The boys went from proper British boys to young savages that would kill someone for their own amusement and fun. At the beginning of Lord of the Flies, Jack was very nice and even wanted to have many rules to keep peace and order on the island. But by the end of the book, peace and order didn’t matter because all Jack cared about was hunting and becoming the leader over Ralph. Every boy on the island changed, but the most dramatic change was Ralphs because at the start, he was very confident and had control of the boys, but as time goes on he lost any authority he had. Ralph lost his power because even he changed into a savage, but unlike the rest of the boys, he knew what he did was wrong and decided to stop doing wrong and focus on getting off the island.
The want for power strengthens and his hunger increases, but what he was unaware of was the fact that he was destroying his own mind. He was brainwashed by his surroundings to think that in that situation, it was acceptable. Jack’s evilness has officially broken everyone's norms on the island. These young boys have been exposed to the wild and this has destroyed the minds’ of these kids and has turned the kids into
Throughout the novel of Lord of the Flies, William Golding provides a profound insight into human nature. Golding builds on a message that all human beings have natural evil inside them. To emphasize, the innate evil is revealed when there’s lack of civilization. The boys are constantly faced with numerous fears and eventually break up into two different groups. Although the boys believe the beast lives in the jungle, Golding makes it clear that it lurks in their hearts.