Can children behave themselves without any authority to keep them in check? Both William Golding and Michael Grant present their views in their books, Lord of the Flies and Gone, respectively in that order. In Lord of the Flies, a group of schoolboys are trapped on a deserted island with nothing but their wits and whatever they find on the island to survive. In Gone, all children younger than 15 in a small town have to survive after the mysterious disappearance of all the adults and older teenagers. Golding expresses darkness in humanity in his book when some of the Jack and his hunters leave the young to fend for themselves, the willingness to kill in exchange for respect and authority, and the hunters’ obsession of the blood from their prey. Grant expresses darkness in humanity in his book when only Sam and his friends were willing to help the young, Drake’s sadism, and Caine and his minions use their powers to bully other into submission.
The details in both books make them seem very different from each other, but in reality the have a very similar plot. An event leads the characters in both books stranded and by themselves without any help. The main characters are determined to help everyone and try to escape. Both books have an opposing group
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In Lord of the Flies it only took a few days for Jack Meridew and his hunters to become obsessed with the blood of animals, but with rising tensions they even resorted to killing fellow humans. The hunters did not kill for necessity, they killed for fun and for respect using the excuse of wanting meat so they could get away with it. Most of the older characters would’ve abandoned the young ones which would’ve condemned them to death. If it wasn’t for Ralph, the blood of the young children would’ve been on Jack and his hunters. Jack and his hunters were driven mad during the isolation revealing their true inner
In “Lord of the Flies” Ralph has the goal of getting himself and the rest of the tribe off the island. His plan to execute it is by making a signal fire that a passing ship or boat will see to rescue them. Ralph realizes that maintaining order within their tribe is crucial to their survival and chance of being saved. As chief of their group, he assigns Jack the leader of the hunters. He then puts them in charge of keeping the signal fire lit. During this process, Jack and his boys get distracted from keeping it lit as they attempt to kill a pig. After a couple of hunts, Jack and his boys finally kill a pig and return in cheers. As they get back, Ralph gets mad at Jack saying “You and your blood Jack Merridew! You and your hunting! We might have gone home” (70). Ralph is angry with Jack because he realizes as leader that he has to make sure everyone understands their main goal, and are able to focus on that by blocking out distractions. These actions that Ralph show display why he is successful as a leader and why they accomplish the goal of getting
“Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for its means that somewhere hope is alive” (Sturgeon). In the novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding and the movie, Castaway, directed by Robert Zemeckis, both stories involve a person(s) getting stranded on an island. In both the novel and the movie, a group of boys and an individual demonstrate that over time that fear and the will to survive is the only thing that is driving them to make the decisions they make. They will do things that display savagery and uncivilized behavior in order to beat nature. While some may argue that the urge to gain power is what leads one to make decisions and act upon it, it is clear that fear and the will to survive is what many people act upon
In the “Lord of the Flies” savagery gets the best of the boys. The boys have lost their humanity and let things get out of hands and ended up killing an innocent boy who they thought was a beast. “There was no laughter at all now and more grave watching. Ralph pushed both hands through his hair and looked at the little boy in mixed amusement and exasperation.”
The poem “The Man in the Dead Machine” and the novel Lord of the Flies are quite parallel one being how they echo the similar concept of civilization versuse savagery. Both pieces were written in and around World War Two, showing what life was like during the war and how it affect people. Both depict a similar scenario of civilization versuse savagery and our personal fights with inner battles. Both the poem and the novel have a similar image throughout both pieces. Whether it's the pilots struggle with PTSD in the poem, or the boys fight with civilization versus savagery, both situations paint a scene of dealing with something hard in life and how it affects you.
The basic premise of the two plots is the same. Both stories deal with the capture of a young person who is to be groomed to live in a private, controlled environment to make them happy, but where they are never able to leave.
The similarities are prolific in their presence in certain parts of the novel, the very context of both stories shows similarities, both are dealing with an oppressed factor that is set free by an outsider who teaches and challenges the system in which the oppressed are caught.
The underlying themes of the stories are l valid contrasts between the works. In some portions the themes are of the same facets, such as how in both books two men have a direct conflict between
The books Lord of the Flies and The Chocolate War both have children in that awkward spot of authority with the twists of different settings, situations, and conflicts. While there is hope for everything to work out for the children in the books, eventually it turns out to be a struggle for them in the end. Children are not mature enough to make the decisions to be in charge of their own lives, they need guidance and the wisdom from adults with life experience. Even with the presence of an adult, children with authority can cause many problems and chaos to be aroused. Coming to a conclusion, children do not deserve this authority until they have
In Lord of the Flies, a group of boys are stranded on a deserted island. It starts out fine, until one of the boys, Jack, becomes jealous that he isn’t in charge. He forms a separate tribe. One night they start a war type of dance, chanting and screaming. They mistake Simon for the beast and kill him screaming “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” (Goulding 138) After the boys realize they had killed Simon, they realized that who else would give them hope that they could survive, and keep the peace around the island. After Simon died Jack started to gain more power, because Ralph had lost a valuable member of his
The basic ideas of the two novels are also similar. They have to do with rebellion against the so-called perfect new world and the sanctuary
When placed on a deserted island, a group of strangers banded together to try to survive. They decided on a leader, problem-solved, fought off a beast, and formed their own society, even if it was somewhat flawed. This was the situation in the famous TV show, Lost. The Lord of the Flies and Lost are similar in these many different ways, with the exception that the show featured a tribe of adults instead of children. That just proves how difficult it is to maintain order in a society; even the adults struggled with keeping it peaceful and civilized. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding presents a broken society of savage boys fighting one another to suggest that man’s capacity for evil is brought out by the need for power and control.
In both books, these two gangs decide to have a rumble, a fight with all the members of the two gangs. This is one similarity between these books.
Most children are obedient and well-behaved when they are supervised by adults, but how would they be if they are left to themselves? In the novel, Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, a group of boys, all under the age of thirteen, are stranded on an island and left unsupervised. At first, the boys are innocent and civilized, but as time goes by, they turn into savages. The children in this novel turned into savages because of peer pressure, their desire have fun, and the fear and chaos that evokes from children when they are left unsupervised.
The most evident motifs in both novels are madness, nonacceptance and the concept of betrayal. that
In both novels, the main characters are isolated from any form of true civilisation. In Lord of the Flies, the boys find themselves on a desolate island which is devoid of any human life due to a plane crash, whereas in The Road the Man and Boy live in a bleak, destroyed America in which almost the entire population has been wiped out due to an unnamed natural disaster. Because of the lack of resources and essentials, it is inevitable that the main characters have to find means of surviving – in Lord of the Flies; this is mainly through hunting and building shelter and in The Road, the Man and the Boy trek along the barren landscape in search for any remaining food they can find.