Analysis Of The Book ' The ' Of The Flies '

He didn't plant any Truffula Trees in place of the ones he cut down. He only had time to run his factory and make Thneeds. He kept making more Thneeds and making more money. Slowly all the animals that depended on the Truffula Trees for food, shelter, and fresh air had to move away from the barren wasteland that was once a beautiful and clean forest. The air was full of smog and the lakes were full of gook from the factory.

“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.

Hidden meaning can be found in many different places. They can be in poems, novels, murals, paintings, and even in everyday life. Hidden meanings are there to challenge the reader, to make them think and really analyze the work. In the case of the novel “The Lord of The Flies,” by William Golding, the hidden meaning comes to us in the form many of his characters. One of them is Jack. Jack started off like everyone else equal with power or a share of the things on the island. Later on he takes a group of the kids. Now there are two groups of the kids. Showing that sooner or later a group may later split into two groups and people will have to chose a side. Jack lead his

Once they were there, the quarter-mile trek to their place had to be made. It was a small, circular clearing in the cone-bearing woods. The area around the fire pit was dirt, for safety reasons. On the outskirts of the copper-colored dirt were five large, round logs arranged in a circle for sitting. Just a few feet beyond the logs, the forest began again in copious amounts of vegetation and growth, like an untamed lion. That night’s weather was just right. The cool air was

A minute later, we were at the tree line, and after several more steps, we were out. There was a large field before us, a mostly lifeless one. The dark, damp soil was poorly concealed by thin brown stalks with shriveled leaves, long dead vegetation that was unable to survive the cold. A light covering of leaves seeped out a from the forest, the once bright colors faded and dull. The sky was overcast, the air cold, but the Risteen was behind us.

"Try not to go too deep into the woods, Viola." That's the one thing that father had dependably let me know. Every one of the grown-ups in the town said the same thing, so it appeared like a platitude told to kids who wanted to play in the woods. The wind blew, making my skirt and golden braids sway. Holding the hair out of my eyes, I turned upward. Through the holes in the green branches over my head, I could marginally see the blue sky. It was a hot summer afternoon, and there I was, in the forest. There was an incredible woodland close to Salem Town, the town I lived in. The forest, which was abundant year-round, was extremely helpful for the villagers. A prime example how it is useful to the daily life of the villagers in our modest little

Millions of years ago, humans were primitive beings. They were savage and uncivilized, but they couldn’t help it. These were the instincts that were ingrained in their brains, the instincts that kept them alive. These instincts are still inside us today, suppressed by the rules put in place by society. In William Golding’s book, The Lord of the Flies, Golding examines the conflict between these two forces in a life-or-death situation. This is modeled by various examples of symbolism and allegories throughout the book. Some of the more notable examples include, the conflict between Jack and Ralph, the conch and the beast’s shifting power, and the climax of Piggy’s death and the destruction of the conch.

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.

When we stepped in it became darker and altogether quieter, except for the rustle of squirrels and calls of birds. Walking along, I saw little chipmunks run by, and I wondered if this neighborhood sized piece of forest was the size of a city to them. A few minutes later, we got to a bridge that goes over a small creek. Judging by the size of the creek walls, I could tell that the creek used to be the width of a medium sized river at one point. Not only that, but parts of soil that had once contained tree roots had been washed away, leaving the half a tree’s roots hanging over the creek.

Suddenly, the phosphorescent glare of the sun was gone; it was dark, it was fetid and pungent (and some odd, sweet smell was present, also). The green leaves and tall trunks and brush were gone, too, and in their place were plump, black bags of trash and old pizza boxes. This must, he thought, be the end of the forest, where it met civilization again, and he must be sitting now in the industrial sized dumpster of some business’

David actually volunteered for the task and Goliath had a field day mocking the small stature boy. David responded to the mockery by saying, “You come to me equipped with a sword, spear, and javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord, the same Lord that you have been ridiculing.

“Just kill yourself Naina. You’d be better off.” The boy dove behind a thorn bush and held his breath, trying to gain any insight he could on the situation. Small feet paced back and forth through the grass, as the boy slowly crept up to the field,gaining a clear view of the thugs. Hiding behind that thorn bush, he glared at some strange boy, who seemed to be the same age as the boy. He was carrying something that was dripping red liquid, and that bore a heinous smell that could be experienced at the boy’s distance.

When the modern era’s media outputs are bombarded with morbid images of the world's current state on television, the mass shootings, nuclear war threats, and numerous amounts of injustices, society cannot help but think evil is ubiquitous. People in society often forget evil is not a mystical force but rather a factor that is located in every human. The novel, Lord of the Flies, written in 1954, deals with the dark underlying themes of human evil, violence, and the loss of innocence. The grim ending of the novel calls upon its readers to understand the recurring theme of the inert evil that lies within all humanity when societal rules are forgotten. William Golding uses the three primary characters to symbolize the negative aspects of human nature through Ralph, Jack, and piggy's experiences in Lord of the Flies.

William Golding’s allegorical novel, Lord of the flies, is about British schoolboys stranded on a deserted tropical island due to a plane crash. The beginning of the novel foreshadows what events will happen throughout the novel. However, I think the ending of the novel is more important because Golding gives us the message that we are all capable of being a savagery and it teaches us the need for civilization by showing changes in characters in a negative way at the end of the novel.

In order for any human to be civil, there has be not only rules, but, consequences to those. In The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Ralph, the chosen leader, creates certain rules that were made up by his friend but those weren’t enough or respected because Ralph himself wasn’t. Ralph should’ve created better rules such as no killing, sharing everything and being respectful to each other as well as consequences for if those weren’t followed. If he did so, all the boys would have survived and there would have been an order.