Lord Of The Flies Literary Analysis

Jack and his tribe attack Piggy, Samneric, and Ralph in order to get fire. “... and he made stabbing motions with his spear. From his left hand dangled Piggy’s broken glasses”(168). For the need of fire, the boys would go to war with each other. Even though the fire is a useful tool, it leads to a war between the two groups that ends with Piggy’s death and almost Ralph’s.

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

In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, insanity is depicted throughout the novel by Jack and his followers which later become known as “The Tribe”. Insanity is a form of mental illness which causes the inhabitant to be overcome with madness. In chapter 10 Golding tells of a horrendous attack against Ralph, Piggy, and the twins Sam and Eric. The attack was led by none other than Jack and the tribe to steal Piggy’s glasses for a fire to roast a pig that was hunted earlier. Ralph later confronts Jack at the “Castle Rock” to inform him that if he needed fire all he had to do was ask.

They also steal Piggy’s glasses, for making fire, and when Ralph and Piggy ask for the glasses back, Roger, a member of Jack’s tribe, rolls a giant rock right onto Piggy, resulting in killing Piggy. Roger is innocent in this act because of the situation he is put

The socs had tackled Ponyboy to the ground and pulled a knife on him. The book says, “It occurred to me then that they could kill me.” (Hinton 6 PDF). If the greasers hadn’t come to save Ponyboy, the socs might’ve badly hurt Ponyboy. Another time people were violent was during the rumble.

A quote that shows how the use the conch to prevent the boys from going to savage is when Piggy, “ Lifted the white, magic shell. “Piggy shouted again. “Which is better to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?” Again the clamor and again “Zup!” Ralph shouted against the noise.

In a pursuit to tell the others, he is mistaken as the beast by the tribe and is beaten by bare hands and teeth to death. Piggy is the only character that does not take part in this event. Later on, only three boys are present in Ralph’s camp, including Piggy. Jack’s hunting tribe steals Piggy’s glasses in order to start cooking fires, which leaves Ralph unable to keep

After killing the pig Jack becomes a rebel and goes away from the group. He makes his own group and rules by fear and controls everyone who is in his group. He and his group kill simon because they think he is the beast,He makes a friendship with Roger and trains him to be evil and become a torturer. Roger eventually murders piggy which impacts Ralph. At the end of the story he chases Ralph and we do not know what happens to him.

We was scared!” (156) Simon knew the truth about the beast, he had the potential to rescue the boys from themselves yet they escalated the situation and killed him for trying to spread the good news. The death of Simon was a real turning point in the novel. When the once pure, almost Godly boy is furiously executed is when the decline of the conch truly

Right away, the owner of the truck came running out of his with a loaded shotgun. He yelled out into the crater that the crashed saucer had created asking the intruders to show themselves. Unexpectedly, this very deep voice spoke telling him to drop his weapon, resulting in the owner pulling the pump on his weapon to show he meant business. Out of nowhere, this giant brown claw proceeds to grab him and pull him straight into the crater. All I could her was screaming and the sound of a ‘gulp’ before things went silent.

The author describes this action as "...with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever... the rock struck Piggy... (Golding 181). This shows Roger, a callow and feckless boy, shoving an enormous rock at Piggy and bringing him to his death. A enormous rock can symbolise strength and power and the rock is also red, which can represent violence.

When Simon comes down from the mountain to the boys that the beast is just a dead body, the boys are too enraged by the thrill of reacting the hunt that they turn on Simon and end up killing him. Piggy tries to come up with a reasonable reason of why they killed Simon while Ralph states that was murder. Simon’s foreshadowing is proven when Jack and his hunters attack Ralph tribe camp and steal the fire and Piggy specs. ”You’re a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief.” (177).

Savagery has overtaken Roger and his murder of Piggy symbolized savagery destroying civilization.

Minh Nguyen murdered his ex-wife’s new husband, Corey Mattison, in front of his children for one simple issue. Envy turns us into monsters. It is an incurable disease that cannot be controlled.

Spill his blood,” (Golding 152). The “steady pulse” of the circle they created gathered around Simon, and they all took turns “[striking], bit[ing], and [tearing]” at him, not even realizing that the “beast” they thought they were killing was one of their own, and the literal beast they were looking for was living inside them, driving them to do horrible things (Golding 153). Jack leads this murder. He influences the boys to hurt their friend, all because he is too wrapped up in hunting the nonexistent