Lord Of The Flies Change Analysis

Changes in the Lord of the Flies

Imagine being stuck on an island at the age of 7. There is nothing more than a boy, not much older than yourself, to lead you to find help and ensure your survival. With the fear of a beast rampant in everyone's mind, how easy would it be to stay true to yourself? How clear would your morals stay? The book, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, shows that when put in a situation where the line between life and death is unclear, people start to lose their minds and change. One highly important theme in this book is the loss of the boys’ inner selves and personalities.

One of the major alterations is the boys’ appearance and how they hold themselves.The first introduction of Jack and the hunters is when they sang and marched down the beach, all in step with one another. Jack, being the chorister, led them. “The creature was a party of boys, marching approximately in two parallel

In the beginning Jack couldn’t bear to kill the living piglet. At his first encounter with the one, he held his knife up, ready to stab it, then lingered. “They knew very well why he hadn’t: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into the living flesh; because of the unbearable blood.” (31). At this point in the story, they were still young boys; they did not have it in them to kill the pigs. Even the idea of being responsible for the death of a living, breathing life-form caused them shudder. As we find later in the book, an extreme opposite occurs. As a boat goes by and Ralph goes up the mountain to check on their signal fire, Jack comes back with his hunters and a dead pig. They chant and dance around it as Jack tells Ralph the exciting details of their kill. “‘There were lashings of blood.’ said Jack, laughing and shuddering in excitement ‘You should have seen it!’” (69). The contrasting attitude of Jack and the hunters shows a dramatic change in their