Is Law And Rescue Or Inhumane?

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In the account of the boys’ argument about whether “law and rescue” or “hunting and breaking things up” is better, the boys are slowly turning inhumane because the island is making the boys do things that they could have never imagined they would have to do.When Jack yells back at Ralph and stands tight against his hunters, the tribe is “a solid mass of menace that bristled with spears.” “Solid mass of menace,” one giant boy with no individuals, forced to bond together for protection from evil. “Mass,” composed of matter, the boys are no longer human. “Menace,” the boys are resulting in violence because the island is turning them insane. “Bristled with spears,” pointy and sharp like a porcupine, the “Spears,” used as a weapon to kill and for

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