Lord Of The Flies Theme Paper

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LORD OF THE FLIES THEME PAPER

Here invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the

squatting child was the protection if parents and school and policemen and

the law. (pg.62). Lord of the Flies written by William Golding is a book

showing that without restrictions (laws, rules) anything can happen. The

world could be havoc if it was just kids and no parents. Let me ask you this

if you were stranded on an island and you were 12 years old and there was

no adults would you go wild? Would you kill another kid? Would you put

on war paint before hunting? These are the questions that you should ask

yourself. In this book they could answer the questions for you or not you

decide.

Without supervision from an adult figure these kids got out of control.

They weren’t thinking about being saved except for Piggy and Ralph. All it

was about was the hunting. Just to take down a pig with a spear and then

killing it for food was their main priority. It seemed like some of them

didn’t want to go home they wanted to live on the island forever because

they liked the fact that they were free from adults telling them what to do.

Jack and his hunters weren’t thinking straight. They didn’t have

teachers or parents to set them out of their trance. No one to show the way

to being good kids. No one to punish them for wrongdoing. Since they

were free of supervision they went crazy. They didn’t care about the fire

going out. You talk. But you cant even build huts then you go off hunting

and let out the fire. (pg.71). They just wanted to hunt all the time and they

killed two other kids. One was accidental but they shouldn’t have thrown a

huge boulder on top of Piggy’s head. Know if there was an adult

supervision then the hunters wouldn’t be hunting they’d be made to watch

the fire 24 hours and they wouldn’t be killing other kids either.

Ralph and Piggy were really the only ones wanting to be saved. They

were closest to being any kind of an adult supervision. But since they

weren’t actually adults the kids wouldn’t listen to them. Piggy and Ralph

knew what had to be done to be rescued but none of the kids cared about

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