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William Golding´s Lord Of The Flies: Character Analysis

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People are bad they do so many bad things. They steal and kill other people so that they get what they want. I believe that humans are bad because they kill and steal.
William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies shows that humans are bad through killing one another. In the Lord of the Flies Simon is calling out to everyone saying that the beast is not real. They are completely ignoring him. He is crawling toward them and they start to attack him. Everyone kills Simon. Some people realize oh wait that was Simon we all killed him, even if they like it or not. All the kids on the island play a part in killing Simon. When all the kids are at castle rock Roger gets the rock rolling downward and it hits Piggy and kills him. Roger had killed Piggy even if he didn’t want to, but more than likely his intention was to kill Piggy. Two people die in the Lord of the Flies and everyone …show more content…

Piggy has glasses and if you can get it just right you can start a fire. Jack the leader and a dictator of a group of boys. If he wants something he takes it, no questions asked. Jack steals Piggy’s glasses so that they can have fire. Piggy and Ralph confront Jack calling him a thief. Ralph says “We’d have given you fire if you’d asked for it” (176). Ralph goes on to say, “You could have had fire whenever you wanted. But you didn’t” (176). Jack would’ve gotten the glasses, but he had to go and steal them.
Golding’s view that society is essentially bad can be seen throughout history. For example the Holocaust during World War II. The Germans were killing a lot of Jews. Also known as the Holocaust. They would kill the Jews all sorts of ways. Most common example is the gas chambers that the Jews would be forced into and killed with a poison gas. They would keep the Jews in concentration camps and they could do basically anything they wanted to the Jews. The Germans could hurt them as much as they wanted and no one would even

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