Ralph And Piggy's Diary Entry

“As they [the hunters] danced, they sang. ‘Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in.’ Ralph watched them, envious and resentful. Not till they flagged and the chant died away did he speak. ‘I’m calling an assembly.” (Golding ,75). The ever-growing hunters in the community have transformed into a bloodlust group of savages, or have they? These group of boys haven’t actually transformed, but rather they have shedded off the restrictions of their reinforced civilized society. In their new place ,with no law and order, the boys can do as they please and with this grows barbaric attitudes. The voice of reason, Ralph, is starting to lose democracy in the community with Jack’s threats of the beast. These threats make the boys seek protection and they start to follow the primal orders from Jack. With the downfall of their mannerly society, the boys are in a state of nature controlled by aggression and sadistic motives.

Without cloudy days the sun wouldn’t be appreciated as much. In Lord of The Flies, the character Piggy acts as a foil to Ralph, the main character, to accentuate how great a leader he is. This is shown through their appearances, how they interact with each other, and the state they are in by the end of the novel. The relationship the two share illuminates the the meaning the book’s meaning that / a person has to be the best to survive in society or lack thereof. / a person can’t have to many flaws otherwise You need to stay civilized to survive. Only the best of the best can survive in society.

"Piggy saw the smile and misinterpreted it as friendliness. There had grown up tacitly among the biguns the opinion that Piggy was an outsider, not only by accent, which did not matter, but by fat, and ass-mar, and specs, and a certain disinclination for manual labour." (Golding 68)

After Jack and his hunters return with a dead pig what do they realize they forgot to do?

Ralph said the beast had teeth and big, black eyes. I’m kind of scared now. Jack took the conch and started blowing into it like he don’t know what he’s doing. He said that Ralph shouldn’t be the chief because he’s a coward. But we took a vote again to see who should be chief and no one voted for Jack. Then he stormed away saying that he was going to hunt by himself and you could join him. We don’t need Jack; we can do without him. I suggested we moved the fire to down here on the beach so we don’t have to go up on that mountain. We made a new fire. I noticed some boys like Maurice, Bill, and Roger left—I expect they joined Jack’s tribe. We don’t need ‘em anyways. Ralph and me had done some talking: he doesn’t know what to do and is losing faith in getting rescued. I told him we just got to move on—be like the grownups. Then Jack and some of his hunters burst out of the trees making loud noises. I thought they were after the conch so I went to protect that. He told us he was having a feast and we could join him in his tribe. His hunters stole some fire from us during their

Meat is something all the boys on the island want, and some even want it more than they want to be rescued. As originally being the leader of just the hunters, Jack leads the hunt that catches, and kills, a pig that gives the boys the meat they so desire. This success makes him more popular with the boys, and results in Jack having more pull over the boys. While not convincing anyone to vote Ralph out as chief; Jack goes on to start his own, more successful tribe. His tribe has the majority of the boys. All except Simon, Piggy, Ralph, and Samneric join his tribe willingly. Furthermore, Jack is a better leader than Ralph. While he has atrocious morals, the boys actually listen to Jack and do what he says. Opposed to Ralph, who can’t get the boys to listen to him, even with the conch. Jack has more success than Ralph, who has better morals and rules, when it comes to

Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash!"(pg. 152).This is an example of societal influences on the hunters since they were once choirboys now chanting to kill a pig is a big change in their lives knowing that they are on an island which is a life or death situation for them. Later on in the book, the leader of the tribe and the leader of the choir boys (Ralph and Jack) get in a huge argument leading to the boys splitting into two groups. The conflict of this action was that Ralph doesn’t have meat without Jack and Jack doesn’t have fire without Ralph.They both need each other in order to survive but one or the other wants to win so they feel more important than the other person.The scene played between Ralph and Jack is like social media to us knowing people want to be popular and known around the world thinking they have more power than ordinary people. Therefore one won’t stop arguing with the other person until there is only one leader on the island even if it means one person dying. This won’t benefit anyone if they are just arguing all the time because there are little kids relying on either Jack or Ralph to survive but if they end killing each other that will just make the percentage of the little kids surviving

Ralph is not only a leader, but a voice of reason within the group. Ralph’s main priority throughout the novel is to be rescued, even when it did not seem as important to the other boys in the group. Ralph creates a signal fire and consistently reminds the boys that it is imperative to their survival. Ralph explains, “Don’t you understand? Can’t you see we ought to--ought to die before we let the fire out?” (Golding 81). Ralph’s scolding to the hunters is well deserved considering that they wasted a possible opportunity to be rescued after letting the signal fire go out. As time went on, Jack and his hunters become more and more consumed with hunting and order began to turn into chaos. The hunters chant, “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in” (Golding 75). Ralph refuses to join the boys and viciously murder pigs. The boys’ hygiene habits were also worsening, to the point that the boys were defecating in the wrong areas. Ralph tries to address it at a meeting, but the boys’ find their animal-like behavior amusing. Throughout the loss of civility and order, Ralph always keeps a persistent effort to keep the signal fire going and keep order within the group. Ralph’s attitude towards the entire situation drops, however he never completely lost hope.

The side supporting that Jack was responsible for the deaths of Piggy and Simon presented the better argument. Tristin, the attorney for Piggy and Simon, supported his case with additional examples from the text and interrogated more witnesses with a variety of issues. For instance, while Piggy and Simon’s attorney was questioning Jack, Tristin asked, “Why did you egg on the attack against Simon?”. Jack replied that he was not alone in the violence toward Simon, and many other boys participated in the murder. However, many of the witnesses stated that Jack was the first to show his savageness and ordered his followers around. Jack started the ritual that killed Simon and promoted the turmoil, boisterous partying, and sadism. Furthermore, some

“We have our pig, we’ll wait on collecting the meat until we have killed all the pigs on the ship. We’ll save Ralph for last. On with the game!” Shouted Jack raising his knife now covered in the doctor’s blood. The savages cheered and dragged the body into a corner to be used later. Roger walked up to Jack and whispered in his ear, among the crowd of cheering boys dancing around the body as it was dragged to the corner what was said between them was incoherent to any of the other savages.

Ralph’s rationality is tested when he embarks on a hunting exhibition with Jack and the rest of the hunters. During this exhibition, Ralph is successful in sticking a pig with a spear. After sticking the pig, “Ralph was full of fright and apprehension and pride,” which is quite a variety of emotions (Golding 113). Ralph is scared of what he has done, but also proud that he, himself, accomplished what other’s speak so highly of. Although, he is also apprehensive because he can feel himself succumbing to the temptations of savagery and disregard for all law and order. However, Ralph “sunned himself in [the hunters] new respect and felt

The hunters invite the rest of the boys to a feast. In this feast, Jack invites people to his clan of hunters, proclaiming that they will have more fun than anything Ralph could offer. He tells the boys to eat as much meat as they want. “His tone conveyed a warning, given out of pride of ownership” (Golding 149). Golding is implying that Jack can control power the way he wishes to as long as he has power over what most of the boys want. He gives off a sense of hierarchy so the boys know he has more power than anyone else because he is in charge of the meat. As long as he is in the position, his instability won’t be able to be seen because of his victory over the pig. Ralph, the more sensible leader, tries to tear him down with reason. He mentions the shelters and asks him where he will sleep with no shelters to keep the rain out. “Do our dance! Come on! Dance!” (Golding 151). Ralph uses the excitement of the pig kill to stay the boys’ focus from Ralph’s reason. We see that insanity takes over here because not even reason can keep the boys from participating in the killing of

Dear daybook… It’s Monday, I think who cares. But I have woken up in some hot place sweating like crazy. I think I am alone, but I don’t know. Last I remember is being on a plane with a bunch of other boys. So far all I’ve seen is a beach, palm trees, weird plants, and the sun glaring in my eyes. I start walking around for a while, and then I heard this weird loud noise over and over again. I began to follow it with excitement thinking I wasn’t alone. As I became closer it grew louder, I started to see other boys as well. Questioning if they were on the plane or not. As we all ended up at the same spot and there were to boys standing there saying how their names were Piggy and Ralph and they made a few rules. They also stated they we need

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a group of unsupervised British schoolboys are left marooned on a desert island after their plane crashes. Left to fend for themselves, they almost immediately attempt to bring some semblance of order and civilization to their new home. One of the hallmarks of a society of course is a leader, and one of the first tasks the boys undertake is to adopt one. Of the three contenders, Jack, Piggy, and Ralph, Ralph is the one whom the boys find to be most suitable to be the chief. Those qualities that Ralph either expresses or lacks are quite telling of which people society finds most desirable to lead.

Although the boys would prefer to have fun and play games, they follow Ralph’s rules at first. This order is maintained until Ralph loses his leadership role to Jack. After providing, or bribing, the boys with juicy pig meat, Jack asks “’Who’ll join my tribe and have fun?’” (211). This lure of enjoyment along with the promise of more food sways the boys to follow Jack. With the demise of Ralph’s leadership and under the leadership of Jack, the boys begin to turn towards savagery.