Summary Of The Book ' The Flies '

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.

This book review examines different ideas by William Gerald Golding in the book Lord of the Flies, which provides different kinds of experiences that readers would relate to while interacting with the book (Golding, 1954). The author introduces the readers to different characters who perform their tasks within the intended contexts, and that makes them more predictable in their respective areas. The target audiences include literature students who would borrow the ideas explored while examining the book to apply the same in their different academic paths. Therefore, this study is a significant one as it gives the readers different ways of looking at things from a literature perspective in order to comprehend the intended message by the writer.

“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.

In chapter 3 an argument breaks out between Ralph and Jack over the group's priorities. Ralph is trying to build shelters and an SOS fire while Jack and his hunters are craving some meat. I agree with Ralph wanting the priority to be on getting rescued and staying alive, but I disagree with him complaining about it because he is the leader and it's his job to get everyone working. With Jack I understand and agree that people will get tired of eating fruit and other foods similar to that, but I dislike how he's complaining when he's the one that is responsible for hunting. The argument that these two boys have are what I believe to be purely because of laziness. However if they don’t set things right, this problem is only going to

Many times there are different groups in society who fight and don’t get along real well. That is the majority of this book. Two groups of kids in which one group feels safety and rescue is the way to go. The other hunting and being uncivilized, and carefree. The civilized more organized and having rules group is Ralph’s. The group being uncivilized and thinking that hunting is going to save them is Jack’s group also known as his choir.

The theme from chapter 5 tells that Ralph is losing his innocence quickly, but gaining an understanding of natural processes not available to him in the sheltered society he came from. “With a convulsion of the mind, Ralph discovered dirt and decay”. At that moment, he began to trot toward the platform and the civilization it represents, in a physical reaction to the abstract truth newly present within him. Ralph is sick of the savagery he sees around him, but this savagery is characterized by accumulated dirt. The physical filth on the surface becomes a symbol of the metaphorical filth of evil residing in each boy, that itself will soon struggle to be unleashed on the

In chapter 3 the author is trying to show us Jack’s behavior that he is innocent. This is being Jack is not able to kill the pig. Because he is just a child, he is scared and can it see anyone getting killed. This also show us that he is trying to be strong, but in acutely he is scared and strong.

The boys are in the forest in search of more pigs to eating and the "beast". During the search, the boys find pig droppings. Jack tells them that they should hunt the pigs instead of the "beast". A pig comes out to the open and the boys see it. Ralph, who has never hunt, is excited by the chase and quickly gets caught up in the adventure. He throws his spear at the pig, but it only hits his snout. Jack gets a wound on his left arm by the boar's tusks. He proudly shows off his wound to the others and Simon tells him he should suck the wound so it will not get an infection. The hunters go back to chanting "kill the pig." While they are chanting and dancing, they are carelessly waving their spears at Robert. Robert drags himself away from the

“What wrong with that boy Doc, why’s he so afraid to be with the other children?” Inquired the captain.

The ride back to civilization was quiet and somber. The echoes of Ralph’s grief hung heavy on the boy’s minds and hearts, while the weight of their sins settling on their shoulders. The officers came and went, asking for names, serving food and water, and cleansing their wounds. Samneric were badly burned and bruised, Maurice was missing, and Jack was unharmed by the flames. “How ironic that it was your manhunt, but you come out unscathed?” Ralph suddenly questioned in the quiet. Jack kept silence, terrified by the possibility of punishment. Ralph scoffed “Nothing to say huh?” he waited for a beat. “Thought so.” The boys settled into a startled silence, and Jack, somehow, became quieter.

As the book progresses on the conflict is still there seeing who maintain a better leader of the group. In chapter 4 Jack has had no success hunting the pigs he thinks this because they can see him, not smell him. He then had an idea to paint his face when Golding says, “...then he [rubs] red over the other half of his face and slashed a black bar of charcoal across from right ear to left jaw...the mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness.”(Golding 63) Jack painting his face with clay and dirt masks his identity from the others. When he is disguised he does not have to take account for his actions. When a person wears a mask no one knows who or what they are. Jack abuses his power by doing

Section 1 1. Plot: In the middle of a war, a plane that holds a group of English boys is shot down onto an island. In order to gather everyone from the plane, a conch is blown; while everyone is gathered around the beach, a meeting is held where Ralph is appointed chief. Ralph establishes during the meeting that the pilot of the plane is dead and in order to be rescued the boys need to keep a fire going. They hunt for food, build shelter, and create rules to abide by in order to survive.

The lord of the flies was about the struggle about a group of kids that were stranded on an island after the plane there were in was shot down. the kids got together and made a little civilization. where they elected a leader, ralph, and the they split the group of kids between the little kids and the older kids and after that they made hunters and builders. after a while the head hunter, jack, started to rebel and eventually the other kids started to follow him. so jack became the leader and offered everyone that if they wanted to join they could. everyone but ralph and piggy ended up joining jack's group. rumors about a beast on the island started to come around and another plane was shot down near the island, the pilot of the plane was killed and when he fell out of the plane his dead body fell down to the island and the weather would more around his

Jem doesn 't want anything to do with Scout at school because he doesn 't want to be embarrassed with his private life at school.

Ralph lay there, wide awake as he listened to the boys he once led yelling at him from across the thick bushes. They had set fire to the area he had been resting in. He panicked, and shot up from the thicket, but it was no use. While he did try to run, believing running would be his best option in this horror he was faced with, he was unable to escape. The smoke was filling the entirety of his safe haven, where he had decided to stay in attempt to seclude himself from those who had turned their backs on him. As he watched the the leafy greens surrounding him turn to ashes, he heard the screams of the boys he once knew as a family of sorts. They too, had trapped themselves in this horrible attempt to assert dominance over Ralph.