Lord Of The Flies Persuasive Essay

Over time, many have realized that people have the power to change others, however some believe that people cannot and will not change. One side of this argument is that though people will be the same their whole life, and never change. On the contrary, people have been changed by others over time and throughout history. It is a fact of life that people have the power to change others through their actions, perspectives, and ability to persuade their point of view.

Jack and the rest of the boys are looking around trying to contemplate all that just had happened. A naval officer had just put Jack in handcuffs and taken him away with the rest of the boys following. They are all getting on a boat and get shipped back to where they came from, all of the boys were all shocked that they were even getting saved in the first place. All of the officers were asking the boys questions but the boys were too stunned to even speak. For weeks they have dreamed of being saved, of being home, and of their family and finally now it was happening.

     When a group of children become stranded on a deserted island, the rules of society no longer apply to them. Without the supervision of their parents or of the law, the primitive nature of the boys surfaces. Consequently, the boys live without luxury that could have been obtained had they maintained a society on the island. Instead, these young boys take advantage of their freedom, and life as they knew it deteriorates. Lord of the Flies is influenced by the author's life and experiences. Golding's outlook on life changes, due to his heavy involvement in W.W.II, to his current philosophy that "The shape of society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual, and not on any political system

In the story “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, he shows how the boys lost all innocence and civilization. The boys went from having innocent child minds to taking lives of other people, acting savage, and losing all civilization due to problems on the island. The boys had forgotten where they came from and became savage in order to survive; it was the need of survival that caused the loss of innocence among the boys.

Thesis Statement: The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding portrays the theme that regardless of each person’s different background and characteristics, every individual has the ability to commit brutal acts. While this book depicts Ralph and Piggy as the most civilized characters, and Jack and his hunters as young English choir boys, their actions reveal that they all have the capability to act violently.

Finally, I am finished with middle school. Anxiously thinking about the first day of high school, I knew that it would be hectic and wild, but I was ecstatic. Of course, the night before I could not sleep. I lay awake dreaming about how my first day at John Paul II will go. How will it be meeting new people and seeing old friends from last year? Will high school be hard? Will I get lost? I kept thinking about the unknown and worst possible outcomes. My first day of high school was unexpected.

What do you picture in your mind when someone mentions a beast? Fangs? Claws? That is what the castaways believe the beast to look like on the island in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. The story follows several school boys who have crashed onto an exotic island. They elect a leader, Ralph, and they break up into groups: the hunters, the “littluns”, and the hut builders. Soon the “littluns" become frightened of a beast that no one has seen, and it becomes an obsession of the islanders. They interpret the beast in many ways, saying it comes from the water, the sky, and one of the boys even suggested that the beast was themselves. So, what is the beast? The beast could be a representation of war, fear, or human savagery.

Could civilization live a normal and stable life, without any rules and orders to obey? Could you picture, New York City, with no laws to follow and everyone doing as they please? Just imagine the disasters that we will experience. In the novel, Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, we see how each individual character reacts differently to the exposure of complete freedom from an organized society. Also, awe see how this separation from a structural society causes chaos among all these different characters.

The novel, Lord of The Flies wrote by William Golding is based on the survial of young boys stranded on a island with no adults. The tv show, Lost is based on the survial of plane members traveling after a brutal crash. Through both of the plots, it shows the brutalness of being stranded and the push to survive in the same type of conditions. In both situations the characters are battling with “something” in the jungle and also inner demons they are battling within themselves. They are forced to make disitions that humans shouldn’t have to, or have the power to. So was the deaths of some of these characters accidently ? needed? Or harshley planned?

Have you ever wondered how certain people would act in a survival setting? Well in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies that was exactly it. During wartimes a group of boys were stranded on a deserted island and left to attempt civilization. After their civilization fails, they start to turn away from society. Then, later divide into two groups with different leaders, one being the original leader, Ralph, the other to be Jack.

A large group of school aged boys are stuck on an uninhabited island and create a makeshift government. Needless to say, it did not end well. This is what happened in The Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Their government was originally a sort of democracy, where they voted for a “chief”. This can be compared to the United States’s system of voting for a president. Unlike the United States, the boys’ government collapsed and became a corrupt dictatorship. The descent into chaos was caused by the lack of consistency in leadership, the absence of real leadership skills in the “chiefs”, and the child-like belief that they’d be rescued and that it was all a game.

Humans have a monster inside of them that is subdued by society, and if society is taken away, then that “monster” will consume them. This is true for most people, but not all humans are like that. One of the most notable humans to over come the “monster” is Simon, a character from the book “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding. The story is set on an island in the Pacific Ocean. A plane full of British schoolboys crash lands on an island and they’re stranded there with no adults, no society, and no rules. Simon is one of the few characters that stay sensible and good throughout the story. He has a sixth sense about things happening around him, he is kindhearted, and he faints a lot which give the appearance of him being weak.

wanted to be leader and thought he was the best for the job. Already he had

finds nothing. They come to a part of the island that nobody had been to before

How does a person will themselves to do the right thing, and what enables them to move on to greatness? The Oxford English Dictionary defines diligence as “Careful and persistent work or effort”; it further explains that diligence comes from (via Old French and Latin) the word diligere: “to love, take delight in”. Thus, it can be said that diligence begins with a love for constant extraordinary effort. This love is exemplified in the autobiographical works Warriors Don’t Cry, Desert Exile, and Horses Don’t Fly. Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals is an autobiography of her time spent integrating Central High School, where she was continually bullied due to her race. Desert Exile is the story of Yoshiko Uchida, who spent time in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II, where she was bullied not by her peers but by her own country. She and her family made sure to stay continually diligent even in the face of persecution by her own country. Horses Don’t Fly is an autobiography by Frederick Libby, the first American to fly across German lines in World War I. He had to stay constantly diligent in order to keep his life through hundreds of hours behind enemy lines. Nonfiction literature demonstrates to the reader the importance of diligence both in everyday life and in the exceptional situations displayed in the texts.