Fear In Lord Of The Flies Persuasive Essay

The Fear of Not Surviving

The feeling of adrenaline rushing through you body, as your palm start to sweat, causing you to make quick decisions based on how much you fear. That feeling you felt as a child as you were in the dark hiding under your covers. Staying still as the panic and anxiety flowed through your blood. People fear all different type of things which are called phobias. Phobias will cause people to make drastic decisions based on relieving the pressure of fear they are have at the moment. Fear was a major theme in the book Lord of the Flies and the movie The Hunger Games. Every character in both of these stories feared something causing them to react differently. The fear that allowed the characters to decent into savagery and

the fear of loneliness and death brought us closer to the emotion that the characters where feeling.

Fear caused the characters to decent into to world of savagery. The characters felt as thought they had to protect themselves which caused them to turn. Fear triggered the characters in Lord of the Flies to have a huge separation between reality and fantasy. The boys started to imagine this creature that they called the “beast.” The “beast” was described as a furry monster with wings, teeth and sharp claws and followed them, almost touching Sam and Eric. The reason why this caused them to decent into savagery is because they ended up killing Simon, who they though was the “beast”. All because of their change of perception when it came to reality and fantasy of the “beast”, they killed the Godly figure of the book and did not feel remorse. At the start of the novel the boys realized that the only food they had at the moment were berries. The fact that the boys did not have meat caused them slowly to turn into savages. At the beginning the boys were not able to kill the pig, feeling bad for it whereas at the end of the book the boys were killing without having that sense of doing anything wrong. By the fear of not having enough food and having to killing the pig it was the start of the boys

loosing their sense of innocence. Lastly, the fear of not being noticed shows us that Katniss in The Hunger Games quick process of thought allows her to turn from being calm, to showing everyone how fierce she really is. Being noticed is something that bring people to doing actions that make them stand out. This was shown when Katniss grabbed the bow and arrow and missed her first try. Everyone seems to laugh and turn around but when she actually makes it nobody notices it. This is when the fear of not being notice is shown causing her to pick up another arrow and shoot it at the judges, where it hits the apple that is in the pigs mouth. We see the difference between how the characters in The Lord of the Flies more or less loss their sense of innocence and turned to a world of fantasy whereas in The Hunger Games the characters just try to be noticed.
The condition mono-phobia is more commonly known as the fear of loneliness.

Loneliness was significantly shown in both The Lord of the Flies and The Hunger Games. When the characters had developed a fear to be lonely and by themselves. The idea of trying to surviving alone scared both the characters in the movie and in the book. When Peta realized he was weak, he gained the courage to make friends, joining groups so that he would not be lonely and he would be reassured he is feeling okay. The feeling of weakness scared Peta and he knew if he wasn't lonely and made friends then it would allow the rest of them to gain trust in him in order for them to not kill him. The fear of loneliness was also shown when Katniss needed help. She connected with the crowed which she thought would also her to get more sponsors during The Hunger Games. Without feeling the fear of loneliness, Katniss wouldn't have realized she needed help from the sponsors. In The Hunger Games both the main characters realized they needed some form of relationship to go into The Hunger Games. Peta needed to gain his confidence by using other people as for Katniss needed the sense of help and reassurance that everything was going to be okay. Loneliness was shown in The Lord of the Flies a little differently. Unlike The Hunger Games where they needed help and reassurance the boys in The Lord of the Flies realized they were alone from the start. Even though they have each other they didn't have a sense of parental

figure. This caused them to start imagining different figure which could be a cause of loneliness. When the boy with the mulberry birthmark told everyone about the “beast” it was the first sign shown to the reader that they were lonely. Both characters from The Lord of the Flies and The Hunger Games got a little taste of what it was like to be lonley. They experienced loneliness different as the character from The Hunger Games felt as thought they need to create new relationships as for in The Lord of the Flies they needed to imagine their relationship.
Many people fear the thought of death but it comes down to a life or death situation it cause people to make irrational decisions. One of the best examples of this was shown in The Hunger Games. The fear of loosing someone you love causes you to make illogical thoughts and actions.
When Peta was slowly dying at the end of the book Katniss knew she had to do something about it. The fear of death upon someone she truly loved brought her to almost killing herself in the process of saving him. Another example to wanting to protect someone from death and fearing it, would be at the beginning of the book when Katniss nominated herself to go to The Hunger Games instead of her sister. In the movie trying not to be killed was a major task to uphold. Peta knew he has a greater chance of dying and feared it the most. This caused Peta to betray Katniss even though they knew each other for years. Betrayal is one of the illogical things you think of when it comes to a life or death situation. When you think about death it causes you to want to protect yourself from what is trying to kill you but your brain isn't fully functioning properly in order to make rational choices. The fear of death was shown drastically in The Lord of the Flies when they were trying to get people to kill the pigs so that they had food to eat. They didn't want to die of starvation and needed meat for energy and protein. The fear of death clearly shows that people will do anything to avoid it. In The Hunger Games it was shown that they trying to protect themselves and others. In The Lord of the Flies they were trying to think of long solutions on how to stay alive longer to avoid death.