William Golding, in his fictional novel Lord of the Flies, has created one of the most stunningly elaborate, captivating works of American literature. It is a straightforward story of a few shipwrecked schoolboys that dramatically turns into a multifaceted tale of endless deceit, trickery and all out jealousy. It is in this story that three boys, Ralph, Piggy, and Jack, come to play the pivotal parts of leaders to a group of children who are fighting for the right of survival.
The first boy is Ralph, a fine example of morals, compassion and friendship. He is the first person on the island to take charge and the one who hold the group together. Ralph was elected the leader as soon as the group first came together. He was recognized as one person who courage to lead them home. On the vote for chief, Ralph said,
“ ‘Who wants me?’ Every hand outside the choir except Piggy’s was raised immediately. Then Piggy, too, raised his hand grudgingly into the air. Ralph counted ‘I’m chief then’ '; (Golding 23).
Ralph is chosen as leader because in the story Lord of the Flies, he symbolizes every good quality necessary to return home. The qualities are leadership, kindness, benevolence, and most of all, friendship.
The second youth is known to the other boys as Piggy. Piggy is not like the other boys, in the fact that his sense of fun and adventure was replaced with that of worrisome and caution. He is a portly child, which brought on the name “Piggy.'; He also suffers from various ailments, such as bad eyesight and asthma. “He was shorter than the fair boy and very fat. He came forward, searching out safe lodgments for his feet, and then looked up through thick spectacles'; (Golding 7). Piggy symbolically represents every problem, every mistake that could be made, that might leave many young boys stranded on an island far out at sea.
The final young man goes by the name of Jack Merridew. Jack is a hotheaded youth with a flair for leadership, and a temper to go along with it. Jack was the boy who wanted the position of chief from the start. In response to Ralph’s election as chief, “Even the choir applauded; and the freckles on Jacks face disappeared under a blush of mortification'; (Golding 23). Jack Merridew, from then on, was different. He detested Ralph and from then on was consumed by hate and jealousy toward everyone that followed the new chief.
Title Sir William Golding has constantly been a man who sees nothing good in anything. He examined the world to be a dreadful place due to the people who has populated the Earth. In order to display how he observes the world which was around the period of the second world war, he came to the decision of producing a novel. His novel was titled “Lord of the flies”. In the novel, William Golding familiarized his audience with three groups of boys; the hunters, the younger children and the gentle boys.
Piggy is asking for their names. " The children gave him the same simple obedience that they had given to the man with megaphones"(Golding 18).The younger kids simply obey and respond to Piggy in the same way they would to an authoritative figure. The children's behavior towards piggy shows that they are still governed by civility and order. Furthermore, after blowing the conch, Ralph sees a group of boys walking in two parallel lines dressed in odd clothes. “The creature was a party of boys, marching approximately in step in two parallel lines and dressed in strangely eccentric clothing....
Firstly, a notable trait that distinguishes Ralph from the other children on the island is his ability to think more rationally. As the boys become influenced by Jack’s rule, they regress into uncivilized savages that lack discipline. Whereas, Ralph is wisely able to keep the boys under order, which is particularly apparent through the meetings that he regularly holds. It is in those meetings that circumstances can be confronted with rationality and equanimity. For example, Ralph instructs the boys with, “I’ll give the conch to the next person to speak. He can hold it when he’s speaking,” (Golding 36). By saying this, Ralph enforces his role of a leader by making rules for the boys on the island to
The article , “Malala the Powerful”, By Kristin Lewis, describes a girl who got hurt for what she stand up for in the world, so should and went through courage and challenges in the world today till for the taliban. Malala was a girl who was in a big part that affect the world the Taliban. She was a girl that fought for what she believed in she fought for girls who didn't get to go school. So when the taliban went down she still went to school but she hid herself and the other children. As she was getting on a bus one day two men walked up and asked for her and she got up they shot her. She recovered but it was hard for her but after that she became a person that could help children in the world today. Through all that her and others have been
Golding uses many symbols in the novel, Lord of the Flies, to represent good and evil in society. He uses Simon to represent the peacefulness of life and the kindness of a good heart, while Piggy represents the civilization on the island and the adult viewpoint of the children. The conch symbolizes order and also adult behavior. It is a symbol of strength and knowledge as well, as the evil of the beast represents the fear in the boys. All of these symbols change as the story goes on, some changes are less obvious and are the result of the readers new perspective while others undergo dramatic, and quite obvious, change.
Although, Malala was in the twenty-first century at the time. Malala’s life in the foreign country of Pakistan was harsh and apprehension filled, unlike Craig’s domestic and straightforward life. In Malala’s homeland, women were not given the rights they deserved. They were forced to be shrouded in clothing, they were not allowed to be independent and they did not have the privilege to gain a comprehensive education. This greatly disturbed Malala. Unlike Craig, Malala’s support of her encouraging family and culturistic beliefs, motivated her to make a difference. In the same way as Craig, Malala’s broad goal was for rights for children. In contrast, Malala’s specific focus was on education for younger females. Similarly like Craig, Malala’s cause and courageous actions were noticed, at first local then eventually global. On the path of liberation for all, Malala faced the situations of death threats and attempts of assassination, unlike Craig whose life was never put at risk. Malala is an extraordinary independent women, who is determined for women of all ages to get the rights they deserve.
At this point he restates the categorical imperative in a positive form: “Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law” (88). He then offers examples and arguments supporting this concept and its formulation before introducing two other key concepts. One is the idea of humanity as completely autonomous, not merely a means to an end but “as an end in itself” (98), and the other is the vision of rational beings engaging their reason to live out the categorical imperative and thereby compose what Kant calls a “kingdom of ends” (100), whose members autonomously choose to act dutifully as an end unto itself. He then ends with a comprehensive overview of the preceding argument before demonstrating how other approaches to morality, in his view, fall short as laws for
On the island Ralph is elected chief of the boys. One of the first things Ralph does as chief is
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Malala Yousafzai is a fifteen-year-old girl from Swat Valley in Pakistan. She was named after a Pashtun heroine, Malalai of Maiwand, who was fired down in battle after using her words and bravery to inspire her people to fight against the British in the Second Anglo-Afghan War. She and her family lived in Mingora, the largest and only city in Swat. When Malala was born, her family was poor, living off the small amount of money made from the school her father had started. Malala always liked learning, which wasn’t something everyone agreed on. The Taliban forbade girls from education, but Malala advocated for girls’ education rights. On October 9, 2012, she was on the way to school when two men stood in the middle of the road, stopping her school bus. One asked for Malala yet no one answered, only looking to her gave the man an answer. The man lifted the pistol and shot three times, one going through the left side of her head, and the other two going through two other girls. She survived major injuries and a coma, but her experience paved the way to realizing her duty
As one of history’s youngest advocates, Malala Yousafzai has made a large impact on the world with her advocacy for young girls’ rights to education. Malala managed to persevere through the violence unfolding in her home country of Pakistan, for the betterment of girls across the globe. Overcoming personal threats and attacks by one of the most violent extremist groups, Malala has come a long way on her journey of advocacy, and continues to leave her mark on the world in present day.
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