Analysis: Lord of the Flies Chapter 6,7 and 8

In Lord of the Flies by John Steinback a group of young boys are stranded on an island. To survive the boys decided to vote who should be their leader, Ralph or Jack. Piggy is a smart, fat boy who is not respected by the boys. Ralph is the face of leadership but not the best for the job compared to Piggy. Piggy is the brains behind Ralph who gives the essential idea to further progress the island.

Write an analysis of the opening chapter of the novel. How successfully does Golding convey the positive and negative aspects of the island and mans impact on it?

The writer continues to use descriptive phrases for the monster, she does this to lure readers into the main section of the chapter, because the readers can't help but read the phrases to get an image of the monster themselves in their heads, this effect is created by such phrases as “His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of arteries and muscles beneath”.

As the initial path of conflict between snake and man is developed, literary devices such as imagery allow the reader to more easily visualize and connect to the story. Descriptive imagery is the first literary device used in “The Rattler”. The use of “ Light was thinning; the scrub’s dry savory odors were sweet on the cooler air. In this, the first pleasant moment for a walk after long blazing hours” (The Rattler 1) in the opening of the piece encourages the reader to delve into the narrator’s life and experience what he feels. After the narrator abruptly sees the snake, the imagery changes from the peaceful rural life to a dark, intense description of the snake, “a six-foot black snake thick as my wrist, capable of long-range attack and armed with powerful fangs” (The Rattler 2), changing to the viewpoint of the snake for the reader. The switch in the use of imagery takes the reader through a completely different path and alters their emotional response to the story. The snake’s presence illustrates the narrator’s obvious fear and anxiety while allowing the reader to feel the same emotions

Jack still wants the others to believe the beast still exists in order to keep fear in the boys and have power over all the boys.Moreover, due to the beast Jack is in power and the boys turn into savages.The boys on the island believe in Jacks rituals and look for some “protection” from Jack.Jack performs rituals and dances to influence the boys into believing he is keeping the boys safe.The boys believe Jack since none of the boys have been killed or harmed ever since Jack began to protect them.Jack wants to be the leader since the beginning. In the beginning, when boys chose Ralph based on his looks, Jack is not pleased.Therefore, Jack is able to scare the boys with the beast and keep control over the boys.Moreover, Jack believes in savagery

“When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed”(Rand). This was stated by Russian-American novelist Ayn Rand; the extract relates to the novel William Golding wrote called Lord of the Flies. Golding wrote about a group of schoolboys trapped on an island from a plane crash. The boys had to figure out how to survive without grownups. Trying to survive was difficult because they had to have common sense and order. They lose those traits throughout the book which resulted in selfishness and corrupt behaviors.

What went wrong in the Lord of the Flies? Some may say Jack and some may say Roger, but what are the real reasons for the downfall of the boys? They are, the loss of hope, the loss of order, and the passing of time.

“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.

Stranded on an island, a group of boys have the choice to be civil or savage. In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, British schoolboys are marooned on an island. They voted Ralph to be the leader in an effort to remake the culture that they had left behind, accompanied by the intelligent Piggy as counselor. But Jack wants to be the leader too, and he individually lures all of the boys away from civility to the brutal survivalism of hunters. The conch symbolizes power, respect, and social order. Within the Lord of the Flies, Golding provides a brief look at the savagery that controls even the most civilized human beings. William Golding mirrors our modern day society by

Ralph is a good leader but most of the boys follow Jacks lead because of a few reasonings and one of them being that he can hunt and he provided them with food. Even though it was uncooked meat at least it was protein that needed. At this point in the book William Golding has been foreshadowing how the boys split into two “tribes”. One of them being Ralph and the other of course being Jack. Ralph is the nice and kind leader who wants to get off the island. Jack is the type of leader who rules with fear and power. His power as being able to provide meat for his people.

Ralph and Jack get into a quarrel over whether hunting or building shelters is the priority. Ralph rapidly notices the tension and pauses to avoid a rift. Readers see from this incident that Ralph is the ego of the island. He holds back his impulsiveness but ensures to convey his notion. Ultimately he succeeds in winning Jack’s acknowledging.

Many themes are expressed in the novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding because the novel conveys many ideas toward society. Lord of the Flies is about order in society turning to chaos and the evil side of a group of boys stranded on an island. Critics feel that Golding conveys that there is no hope for humankind and evil is an inborn trait of people because of many events that play out on the island.

Tense, she fixed her eyes upon the clock, listening. There were two winds: the wind in flight, and the wind that pursued. The one sought refuge in the eaves, whimpering, in fear; the other assailed it there, and shook the eaves apart to make it flee again. Once as she listened this first wind sprang inside the room, distraught like a bird that has felt the graze of talons on its wing; while furious the other wind shook the walls…only to return—to return and quake among the feeble eaves, as if in all this dust-mad wilderness it knew no other sanctuary. (Ross, 423)

seem to see Jack as their leader. This is the beginning of the struggle of power that both Ralph and Jack face. The quote said by Ralph “seems to me we ought to have a chief to decide

“Isolation is a dream killer” (Barbara Sher). In the novel Lord of the Flies written by William Golding, kids stranded on an island must figure out how to survive. By hunting pigs and building shelters the kids tried to subsist on the island. Through the process of hunting, the kids became cruel, evolving to the point of being barbaric. Thus, through the barbaric actions of the boys and the outside world, Golding shows that savagery exists in all people.