A Lord Of The Flies: A Brief Summary

Ralph is an insufficient leader, which causes his society to greatly decline. Ralph creates the policy of only speaking when one holds the conch in their hands; only Ralph is allowed to interrupt since he is the leader. The boys are at the top of a mountain, defeated, because their fire didn’t stay lit. When Piggy tries to explain why it didn’t work, Jack interrupts him.

“We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we 're capable of” (Phil McGraw) one once said. In Lord of the Flies the characters wear a social mask that opposes their true feelings. Written by William Golding, the story revolves around a group of boys who become stranded on an island and must depend on themselves to survive. They elect a chief, a boy named Ralph. However, as the story progresses, the group become influenced by Jack, an arrogant choir chapter boy. Intriguingly, although they desire to be with Jack and join his tribe, the boys remain with Ralph for most of the story. The rhetorical triangle, which analyzes a speaker or writer based on three ideas- ethos, pathos, and logos-, helps many to better understand the children’s actions and mentality; ethos focuses on the credibility and ethics of the speaker while pathos concerns how the speaker appeals to the emotions of the audience and logos is about the speaker’s use of evidence to appeal to the audience’s sense of reason. The boys stay with Ralph because of Ralph’s use of ethos but prefer to be with Jack because of Jack’s use of pathos and ethos which shows Golding’s message- humans were masks.

In the story “Lord of the flies” by William Golding a group of prepubescent boys are brought to by a plane crash. These boys explore their new setting and begin to rebel as they find out that there are no parents on the island. One of the most significant characters is a boy named Jack. Golding emphasizes the change in Jack's character to show how conformed citizens who know right and wrong can control their savage nature; however, once these societal rules are completely lost to Jack, this demonstrates that man’s nature is evil.

Jack, their newly found “chief in truth,” is not able to start a fire without the help of a remaining piece of their civilization, Piggy’s glasses (105). In ultimate savagery, the group ambushes Piggy. Jack—“the chief” — “lead[s] them, trotting steadily, exulting in his achievement,” with “Piggy's broken glasses,”(105). “Dangling” and “broken”, they tragically misuse the glasses (105). They are no longer a symbol of reason and smarts; but instead they have morphed into a symbol of the extent of how far from civilization the boys wander. With Piggy’s value on the island stripped away, he becomes virtually useless. In the same manner, the loss of Piggy and the conch unfolds, shortly after the glasses. The conch “explode[s] into a thousand white fragments” as the water “boil[s] white and pink,” taking Piggy with the roaring waves (113). This represents the final withdrawal of reasoning, leaving Ralph utterly

Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a book set during World War 2 about a group of young boys having to fend for themselves on an island with no signs of civilization. Within the novel, there are many different themes, most conveying the ingrained evil within all human beings and the malevolent complexions of humanity. As the story advances, Golding manifests the continuous conversion of the boys from being civilized and methodical people to ferocious savages. The book can be expounded in terms of political and social allegory. Golding covers a myriad of details that evince two contrasting political factions. By analyzing the allegory of Jack and the beast it is

In the book, The Lord of the Flies, a group of boys survived a plane crash, when it was shot down and are stuck on an island by themselves. The boys voted for a guy named Ralph, who was the oldest,  to to be in charge of decisions they needed to make in order to get organized and survive. Ralph knew that food was important and chose Jack to lead some of the guys to hunt.      There were pigs on the island, that the hunters tried to capture.  Ralph and his sidekick Piggy find a large shell, called a conch shell on the beach and decide that they could use it to call out to everyone to gather around for meetings. Whoever is holding the conch shell gets to speak. Ralph decides that they should light a big fire on the top of a mountain, so that if a boat came near or plane flew by, they would see that there was life on the island.  Jack was an arrogant and stubborn guy and he volunteered the hunters to be in charge of keeping the fire lit throughout the day and night. After the first couple days the smaller kids start having nightmares from being on the island, and hearing strange sounds.  They thought there was a scary beast that hiding and walking around the island. The older kids try to comfort them and tell them there are no beasts.

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Ralph trying to keep peace within his group. To keep his boys safe, healthy, and sane. Jack's anarchy has caused a danger to the safety of his group and the other group. They had no respect for the items of Ralph's group. Raiding and trashing Ralph's camp in the night with no fear of retaliation. When hardship came over Ralph's group, Jack mockingly invited them to a bombfire and the eating of the fresh kill. During the bonfire Jack's group lost all sense and started reinacting how the furocious kill of the pig was earlier in the day. All living in a angered fear of the "monster" who supposedly lived on the island. Simon, who hadn't been apart of the bonfire, rushed to the intertwined groups to explain the falseness of the monster. Jack's group, all sense removed, attacked Simon thinking he was the monster and brutally murdered Simon. With Ralph's group thinning out and the stealing of Piggy's much needed glasses, Ralph and Piggy tried to come to an agreement with Jack so both groups could still intertwine and survive. They mocked this request and pelted them with rocks until one rolled a boulder off a ledge falling on Piggy killing him instantly. The savagry didn't end there either, instead of feeling guilty, they rallied together to hunt and kill Ralph. All sense of rules and reason have been lost. No leader is head of the group. They do what they want in a deadly

Ralph blew the conch to bring to announce that they were having a meeting. In the meeting Ralph told the boys what they discovered on their journey. He addressed that in order to be civilized they have to set some rules, which was whoever had the conch should be the only one speaking. Someone ask Ralph who knows where they are and Piggy announced that nobody knows where they are. Ralph quickly address that the island is a good one so no one would freak out. After that was said a little boy came up and told the boys that he saw a beast in the dark. Ralph and Jack quickly assured everyone that there isn’t a beast on the island and the boy just had a dream about one. When that topic was over Ralph told the boys that they need to make a fire on

The younger boys had not done much while on the island so Ralph directed them to slowly start forming housing as well as scavenging for fruit to eat. Piggy comes into conflict with Jack when he realized a ship had past but did not stop mostly likely because Jack and the hunters had not kept the fire going. Jack becomes enraged and punches piggy, breaking his glasses while chanting “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in”. As the story goes on, two boys named Sam and Eric come across a pilot who had parachuted and got stuck in a tree, but mistook him for the beast that some of the other boys believed in.

As I fell to my knees in front of my rescuer I started to cry. My eyes are burned by the sight of what I have seen on this island. As I got lifted to the chopper we flew off back to London, I got to see my parents again. It's been a long time since they have seen me last since my hair has grown over time. I've had cuts and gashes that have been stitched up along with a broken nose and missing some teeth. But nevertheless my parents were thrilled to see me alive.

“Ralph….Ralph...wake up I think you're having one of those bad dreams again,” said Ralph's mother. Ralph had just been awaken from a recurring dream he has been having for the last few months. The dream was an extremely horrifying one, with a vivid picture of a cruise ship colored with the spots of a deep, dark red stain, like blood. These dreams had occurred ever since he found out that he was going on a cruise. Ralph jumped up and fell out of his bed as his body didn’t have to time to wake up. His body still tingling from the shock, made way as he walked to the bathroom to prepare for his last day of school. Splash! As the cold water hit his face he began to recall the day hed would have as Ronald the school bully, had been picking on him. Ralph

The book, The Lord of the Flies, covers a lot of topics about human nature. The book shows what life would be like if humans were reverted back to their savage-like ways, after a corruption of society. The boys on the island started out with a sense of civilization and order, but society broke down and the boys resorted to murder. Civilization broke down due to, what I see as, three key reasons, which are fear, acceptance, and respect for leadership. Fear causes the children to form groups in order for survival, because it is evolutionarily advantageous to be in groups. In order to be in a group, you must be accepted by the group. Then, in order for the group to function properly, there must be a leader that is respected. Instead of this civilization, the boys on the island were corrupted by “the beast”, which symbolizes the darkness inside of man. Fear caused the boys to form groups, but there was conflict. The boys didn’t get along so there was minimal acceptance, and due to two leaders fighting for supremacy, the tribe split and there was a lack of respect and cohabitation.

Ralph lay there, wide awake as he listened to the boys he once led yelling at him from across the thick bushes. They had set fire to the area he had been resting in. He panicked, and shot up from the thicket, but it was no use. While he did try to run, believing running would be his best option in this horror he was faced with, he was unable to escape. The smoke was filling the entirety of his safe haven, where he had decided to stay in attempt to seclude himself from those who had turned their backs on him. As he watched the the leafy greens surrounding him turn to ashes, he heard the screams of the boys he once knew as a family of sorts. They too, had trapped themselves in this horrible attempt to assert dominance over Ralph.

Simon, a part of Ralph's tribe, who had "cracked" and went off looking for the beast by himself, finds the head of the hunters' dead pig on a stick, left as an offering to the beast. Simon envisions the pig head, swarming with scavenging flies, as the "Lord of the Flies" and believes that it is talking to him. Simon hears the pig identifying itself as the real "Beast" and disclosing the truth about itself—that the boys themselves "created" the beast, and that the real beast was inside them all. Simon also locates the dead parachutist who had been mistaken for the beast, and is the sole member of the group to recognize that it is a cadaver instead of a sleeping monster. Simon attempts to alert Jack's tribe that the "beast" is nothing more than a cadaver. While trying to tell Jack's tribe of this fact, Simon is caught in a ring during a primal dance and Jack's tribe beats him to death, with Ralph, Piggy, Sam, and Eric in the ring also. Ralph, Piggy, Sam, and Eric later try to convince themselves that they did not take part in the murder.