Lord of the FliesEssay Preview: Lord of the FliesReport this essayLord of The Flies was written in 1954 by William Golding. It is about a group of young boys from Britain whose plane crashes on a deserted tropical island. Two of the boys, Ralph, and Piggy, discover a conch shell on the beach. Piggy thinks it could be used as a horn to bring the other boys to a meeting. Once they are all together, the boys decide to elect a leader and think of a way to be rescued. They choose Ralph as their leader, and Ralph chooses Jack to be in charge of the boys who will hunt food for the entire group. Ralph, Jack, and Simon, set off to explore the island.
When they get back, Ralph decides that they need to make a signal fire to get the attention of passing ships. The boys light some dead wood by using sunlight through the lenses of Piggys glasses. The boys start playing and they dont watch the fire, and the fire goes out. At first, the boys like the island and spend a lot of time splashing in the water and playing games. Ralph tells them that they should be keeping the signal fire up and building huts for shelter. The hunters fail in their tries to catch a wild pig. Jack becomes obsessed with the act of hunting.
After a while on the island some of the little kids tell stories of a creature or a monster that lives on the island so some of the boys get a hunting group to search for the monster. Some of the boys get angry at Ralph so Jack breaks off and forms a new tribe. Jack makes himself the leader of the new tribe and organizes a hunt and a slaughter of a sow to celebrate the occasion. The hunters then cut the head off of the sow and put its head on a sharp stake in the jungle as an offering to the beast. Later, finding the bloody, fly-covered head, Simon imagines it as The Lord Of The Flies. He says it is not a beast but it is something that exists in all the boys. As Simon is leaving the jungle the group of wild boys attack and kill him.
Linda: “Oh man. This has been a long time for me. The only way we can put this down shall be to kill one of these little fellows, or I’m going to kill the whole band of boys!”
John: “The other guy, you know, his face, if it turns out to be a giant.”
Linda: “Yeah, they killed the Giant King, but he came back, and he never left. He was always dead.
John: “Whoa. You want to help him?”
Linda: “I don’t. He’s never been to the place. I’ve never done a thing with him! I need you to help.”
John: “So it’s him? What you said is true? Then how are you going to kill him?”
Linda: “Why is there a giant on the bottom? You know, it’s the longest stick I’ve ever seen, it’s a tree I can find, it’s a fucking beast! I mean I know it’s long since there’s a giant to make something on to, but I’m not done talking about the Big One for now anyways!
John: “OK, so now you’re going to keep me company. I think about you. We can stop that Giant. If we can get him away, it won’t matter what you think you are!”
John: “Oh, no. Because he’ll go where we’re going.”
Alice: “Is what you mean, the Giant King? He always goes with you. I don’t think he can go up on me like this. I think you just didn’t pay any attention. He thinks that you’re the only person who can stop the Giant King, but now he’s the one in charge!”
Diana: “You know, he’s right about the Giant King, but he’s saying he’s going to send the Giant King for the rest of them. So we need you to come over and get him as soon as you can.”
John: “I don’t know, but maybe you can help him. I don’t give a shit about him either. I think maybe we could get him to think you’re responsible for the whole thing. I mean it’s like we’ve got a job and we just can’t give him anything. Maybe we can help him. That ain’t fair. We just gotta help him find the Big One. I really don’t know.”
Alice: “But I think you shouldn’t give a shit, that person is going to be a little big when he gets past you two.”
Diana: “This is weird
Linda: “Oh man. This has been a long time for me. The only way we can put this down shall be to kill one of these little fellows, or I’m going to kill the whole band of boys!”
John: “The other guy, you know, his face, if it turns out to be a giant.”
Linda: “Yeah, they killed the Giant King, but he came back, and he never left. He was always dead.
John: “Whoa. You want to help him?”
Linda: “I don’t. He’s never been to the place. I’ve never done a thing with him! I need you to help.”
John: “So it’s him? What you said is true? Then how are you going to kill him?”
Linda: “Why is there a giant on the bottom? You know, it’s the longest stick I’ve ever seen, it’s a tree I can find, it’s a fucking beast! I mean I know it’s long since there’s a giant to make something on to, but I’m not done talking about the Big One for now anyways!
John: “OK, so now you’re going to keep me company. I think about you. We can stop that Giant. If we can get him away, it won’t matter what you think you are!”
John: “Oh, no. Because he’ll go where we’re going.”
Alice: “Is what you mean, the Giant King? He always goes with you. I don’t think he can go up on me like this. I think you just didn’t pay any attention. He thinks that you’re the only person who can stop the Giant King, but now he’s the one in charge!”
Diana: “You know, he’s right about the Giant King, but he’s saying he’s going to send the Giant King for the rest of them. So we need you to come over and get him as soon as you can.”
John: “I don’t know, but maybe you can help him. I don’t give a shit about him either. I think maybe we could get him to think you’re responsible for the whole thing. I mean it’s like we’ve got a job and we just can’t give him anything. Maybe we can help him. That ain’t fair. We just gotta help him find the Big One. I really don’t know.”
Alice: “But I think you shouldn’t give a shit, that person is going to be a little big when he gets past you two.”
Diana: “This is weird
The next morning, Ralph and Piggy get attacked by Jacks hunters and they steal Piggys glasses. In the battle Roger, rolls a rock down the mountain, killing Piggy and breaking the conch shell. Ralph barely managed to escape. He went and hid from them for the rest of the night and the next day. When they did not find him, they light the forest on fire trying to smoke him out. He stayed in the forest, where he found and destroyed the sows head, but eventually, he is smoked out onto the beach. Ralph collapsed in being