Persuasive Essay On Lord Of The Flies Survival

Fear and intimidation play a significant role in the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, just as a coercion and fear played a large role in the lives of the people ruled by the Axis powers in WWII.

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.

Throughout Lord of the Flies, Golding shows his views of the inherent evil of humans. He shows how humans can be in such a savage state, practically mimicking the way of life of their prehistoric ancestors. He exemplifies this with acts of carnage carried on by the young stranded children. It all started with a slight urge to hunt down a pig and then continued on to murdering another human being. Golding shows his views best at the end of the book with the boys being rescued by a Navy crew, which would go on to war it self.

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.

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.

Survival, for some, comes naturally. Most people don’t spend their days pondering whether they will live to the next day. Yet, for others, it as a challenge and a struggle that requires wit and instinct. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of young boys have to rely on their instincts after they crash-land on an uninhabited island. With no grownups around, they have to learn to live on their own and guide themselves.

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, towards the end you see a lot of harsh name calling and violence. For instance when Jack took Piggy’s glasses and Ralph and Piggy went to get the glasses back. Jack called Piggy and Ralph awful names and wounded up even killing Piggy and hurting Ralph. These boys couldn’t have been taught this at home for their parents weren’t home from working to pay for the boarding school. They only were taught at school for they didn’t have an influence in their home. This still happens now-a-days, students will only learn at school. Schools should be the ones to teach the students what is respectful and how bully hurts

Throughout history humans have shown to be both wonderful and awful. There are many examples of wonderful humans that changed the world for the better like Gandhi. There are some examples of awful humans that made the world worse like Adolf Hitler. Many people think that humans are generally good and are lead to do good things. I believe that humans are bad because they give power to those that abuse it

Lord of the Flies won a Nobel Prize in literature in 1983. The story talks about the problems with people trying to build societies and how corrupt people can get. These people building the society are children no more than 12. The Nobel Prize is nothing they just give out, the book got it for a reason. He won the Nobel Prize “for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today." Not only did it win a Nobel Prize but it is also banned in several hundred schools. You might be asking “How would a Nobel Prize winning book be banned?” Well, it’s considered a “challenging book,” it has violent phrases and sentences, but it also starts

From the ruins of civilization To an island no one could see Children create their own nation With promise to turn to debris Brought together by a conch’s cry A chief was elected to lead Jack still bothered by a pig’s demise Couldn’t commit the foul deed Ralph’s superiority meant no more Insight lost along the way Enticed by fun they abandon their chore Evil led them far astray

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.