The Lord Of The Flies: Character Analysis

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Have you ever said something to someone, then realize that it was very mean and hurtful? All humans are evil by instinct, but are just raised to be good. In the Lord of the Flies, it starts out with a group of civilized group of boys stranded on an island with no adults due to a plane crash. These boys elect the oldest boys to be the leaders. The actual leader is Ralph, who is the best looking boy in the group. Jack, the tallest and oldest boy is the hunter leader, which is still a kind of honor. Throughout the book, The boys start to lose their civilization, and it ends up being Ralph and Piggy against the whole group of boys, who turned into savages. Jack was the main cause that the boys turned to savages. Humans are naturally bad, just raise to be good by parent and other influences in their life.
Kids are very evil when left alone with other children.One point in the book, Jack and Ralph get in a fight over the fire that was made as a signal to get rescued. Ralphs ideas where to try to get rescued while Jack just wants to hunt and have fun. The narrator says “The bolting look came into his blue eyes. He took a step, and able at last to hit someone, stuck his first into piggys stomach.” (Golding 71). It shows that when people
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At one point, Jack held a massive buffet that all the boys went to, including Ralph and Piggy. After the fact, All of the boys started a dance around the fire, and started chanting “Kill the Beast, Cut his throat, Spill its blood.” Golding 152. This got the boys into their evil state of mind. Then Simon comes out of the woods to see what all of the commotion was about, not only to be attacked by all the boys, including the good ones. Simon was killed as he got stabbed with spears, and Jack and his tribe felt no guilt. This shows that humans can not control himself and the evil comes out no matter