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Survival In Lord Of The Flies Persuasive Essay

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With every second going by, a second of life is lost. With every minute coming to an end, so does sanity. “‘The thing is-fear can't hurt you any more than a dream. There aren't any beasts to be afraid of on this island.’” (Golding 91). Yet over time, the boys of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, discover that their dreams are more than just in there heads. Throughout the novel, Golding writes about how the boys were civilized with each other when they first crashed, but became completely insane by the end of the novel. By utilizing plot, character, and setting, the time the survivors spent on this uncharted land was much more time than they anticipated, and much more than they could handle. Lord of the Flies starts off with two boys named …show more content…

Piggy, has always been civilized and was never drastically changed by the island as bad as the rest. Piggy was always known as the joke, the fatty, and the one boy out of the whole lot who couldn’t do anything correctly, “‘We could have a sundial each. Then we should know what the time was.’ ‘A fat lot that would be.’ ‘You said you wanted things done. So as we could be rescued.’ ‘Oh shut up,’” (Golding 70). Even towards the end, when no one treated the conch as a symbol of authority, and a pass to speak he still used it, “‘I got the conch!’ He shouted. ‘I tell you, I got the conch!’” (Golding 208). And since no one thought he was of use, Jack and his hunters thought there was no use of him alive Jack ordered his hunters to roll a giant boulder off of the side of a hill and end Piggy’s life. “The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.” “,the body of Piggy was gone.” (Golding 209). The character Piggy, displayed civility through the whole novel when no one else did. Piggy’s integrity as a character was tested and tried though he failed to conform with the other boys. Despite his strength, Piggy’s qualities did not save him from the brutality of the barbaric young …show more content…

“They tried the forest but it was thick and woven like a bird’s nest.” (Golding 132). After Jack and his hunters brutally murdered a pig and placed it’s decapitated head on a spear in the middle of the jungle, Simon comes across it, “There were shadows under the trees but everywhere a pearly stillness, so that what was real seemed illusive and without definition.” “, and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned.” (Golding 157). Slowly, the mysterious and wicked qualities of the island seep into all of the minds of the boys and took over. When Simon comes out from the jungle, the hunters thought he was the beast and they attacked him, “At once the crowd surged after it, poured down rock, leapt on the beast,screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.” “Simon’s dead body moved out towards the open sea.” (Golding 175-177). The isle made them do unimaginable things to one another and to themselves, and brought out the savagery when there was no civility

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