Suspense In Lord Of The Flies

The intensity and suspense in William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies is amazing; it is one of the most erratic books ever written. There is a plane full of boys that have evacuated their boarding school to avoid an atom bomb. The plane soon crash landed on a deserted island, and they are now left to fend for themselves. Throughout this book there are some similarities with the settlement of America and the type of situations that were encountered while establishing order in Lord of The Flies.
During the settlement of America there was a little misunderstanding about where the Europeans and Indians stood which can be related to when Jack and Ralph both wanted to be the main man that ran everything. When the Europeans came over to the Indians’

territory in America to settle, they disagreed on which ethnicity stands as the strongest and the weakest. (Kupperman The American Historical Review) This is like when Ralph has the conch and he seems to be the leader in the beginning like the Indians were, but when Jack came over he wanted to be the leader which is similar to when the Europeans came over to the Indians and wanted to be the stronger people with the most power. “I’m chief then.”... “Jack’s in charge of the choir” (Golding 23). In the text from Karen Kupperman, “Often the debate deteriorates into a competition over who was innately worse: the Indian or the European” (Kupperman 4). The sites found are clearly related to the sections in the Lord of the Flies novel.
In addition to the points made earlier in this paper, another similarity is when the Indians had to get used to the new things they encountered with the Europeans and how they worked.

This is quite similar to when Jack had to get used to killing animals in the woods, because it was very new to him considering he is from a home, with a mom or dad that goes out and buys food from stores like normal. In The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History they say that the Natives struggled with getting used to new economic and social challenges, because that was new to them. (Wesson 6) In The Lord of the Flies Jack goes to kill a pig, and he could not do it and had to let the pig go. He did this because he was not used to doing something so different then what he usually does. “...Jack drew his knife again with a flourish. He raised his arm in the air. There came a pause...The pause was only long enough for them to understand what an enormity the downward stroke would be. Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.” (Golding 31). All examples for my claim have been closely related to my book, and how the settlement of America and how they settled on the deserted island in my book are

alike.
Pointing out these specific quotes, and comparing them together does give more of a clear understanding of why the claim is correct. There is a lot more similarities between these two topics that can be explored these were just two of them. The examples of why my thesis is correct are significant, because once you encounter something different than what you are used you are going to have to get used to different things, you can not just go through your life not being able to adjust to specific aspects in life that could make you uncomfortable living like that. Also one person or persons wanting to be more superior than the other is common in life. Think about the presidential election, there are different people who go against each other to prove that they are the best to run the country. All of this ties into the fact that the beginning of America, and the book Lord of the Flies do have similarities