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As the boys spent more time on the island they began to show more beast like behaviors as time went on and the behaviors started small then start to intensify as time went on. It started with them simply undressing and running around the island nearly naked then slowly escalated into the boys stealing from each other. Such as how “Jack snatched the glasses off” Piggy’s face without asking showing how uncivilized the boys were and how different they treated each other compared to when they were civilized in England (Golding 40). Then this behavior was followed by how they did not listen to what others had to say like how the boys repeatedly told Piggy to “shut up” (44).Closely following behind was the uncivilized behavior of how “they just scattered everywhere” and “ran away” without thinking everything through like a person with civilized behavior would do (46).Then the boys begin to ignore the rules they came up with as a group like where to use the bathroom and where to bath. But most importantly by doing this they ignored their leaders and hierarchy even though they were getting advice about the best things to do to survive which shows how in England they would follow what the adults in charge and leaders say.
As a result of them not listening to a leader they began to focus more on themselves like how Jack said “I went on, I let them go, I had to go on, I” repeatedly focusing the conversation on himself not on the other boys (51). This is reinforced as they begin to deny the weaker boys simple things like food because they “didn’t hunt” which leads to more problems (74).such as how not long after they stop agreeing with each other resulting in fighting among the group to the point they don’t care if others get hurt like Simon ...

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...to survive. Such as how Jack did not feel guilty when he would not let Piggy eat because he “didn't hunt” and how none of the boys felt bad about telling Piggy to “shut up”(74,44).Another effect is how they did not think before making important decisions and run when they feel danger because they only rely on their senses. Such as when Sam and Eric saw the parachute they did not know what it was but their senses told them it was scary and dangerous so they ran. But both things happen as a defense mechanism that slowly develops over time to the point they will react to all things that they are unsure of using the fight or flight. So if we can’t separate our civilized selves from our savage side the savage side will take over because if you are civilized while surrounded by danger you adapt to the situation and many defense mechanisms develop without your knowledge.

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