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paints his face to disguise himself from the pigs. Jack was obsessed with the idea of hunting and killing his own food, so he spends a large amount of time hunting pigs over the course of the novel. When Jack was first presented with the opportunity to kill a pig, he was unable to do it due to his sense of civilization and humanity. He vows that the next time he sees one, he will finally kill it. This causes Jack to paint his face to hide himself from a pig (Golding 62-63). Jack painting his face shows

Choosing power is always difficult; for example, in America choosing a president is difficult because there are always two different ideas, the Democrat and the Republican. It depends on the need for survival, intellectual or strong. An example is Barack Obama, a president that was intellectual and thought ahead, while many supported that way of thinking others did not, so the next term Donald Trump, an aggressive candidate, was elected president which some thrived on as if America was in need of

instinct to be civil and just. The boys voted for a leader, Ralph, and established rules and jobs for the boys to do and follow. This courtesy among the children can be seen deteriorating throughout the six hunts. Jack, who was obsessed with hunting pigs to prove himself as a hunter, is the leader of this decline. This deterioration began first when the three children were on an expedition to look for signs of other people on the island. The three children found a piglet trapped in the brush, but Jack

significant because Simon was slaughtered by his own clan. He was about to explain the misconception about the beast, but before he could do so, he was thought to be the beast and was attacked by the rest of the boys. Throughout the novel, face paint, pig killings, and disrespect towards one another show the diminishing innocence among the kids. The traditional idea of innocent children is not present in this novel. Therefore, as the boys turn to savageness, they lose their innocence and display evil

The Hopeless Island In the novel Lord Of The Flies by William Golding the three boys, Ralph, Jack, and Simon show the reader the two sides of humans. One side of the human being the calm, civilized, and organized. The other side being savage, selfish, and careless. During the entire novel the audience sees these two sides being in conflict with one another. The fact that the two sides of the humans on the island are in conflict throughout the novel shows the reader that all humans have a form of

story following a set of young boys facing their inner savagery. As time progresses through the novel most of the boys shift back into their natural state of savagery while few still remain on the side of civilization. Through the rich symbolism of the pig head and Jack, Golding shows that savagery is at the heart of mankind and it bubbles to the surface when society loses its influence. Golding applies the essence of time to illustrate Jack’s spiraling descent into savagery. He first introduces

going to need to find food to eat. Jack, chief of the hunters, begins to go on the lookout for pigs to hunt and kill. As the hunters and Jack went on their first adventure to find food, they came across a pig. Jack was chief so it was his job to strike the pig first before the rest of the hunters finish it off. As Jack approached the pig he cut the pig's leg with his knife. Instead of the boys killing the pig they just hurt it and then let it escape them. Jack later on says

“Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life” (Alfred North Whitehead). Throughout life, individuals unknowingly symbolize objects and even other individuals who affiliate with them. Over time, they will begin to see other individuals as what they represent rather than who they are, which becomes an important aspect throughout the rest of their lives. In the novel, The Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, the characters of Ralph

without violence, but it did not happen because of destruction being a natural tendency of mankind. The scar foreshadowed the destruction the island. During the children’s stay, the island suffered through the children’s wrath. The children slaughtered pigs, picked the bushes dry of fruit, and also started forest fires. What

Bella Itnyre Ms. Tantlinger Honors English 10 2 January 2018 War Leads to Destruction In William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, a group of young British boys fight for their survival after a plane crash. The longer the boys are stranded on the island, the more of their humanity they lose. They decide to split into two seperate groups, not help each other, and instead fight it out. The boys began to become more self centered and only worried about their own survival. The more self centered