Noah Alling
Wepfer
English 2
Lord of the Flies
5/23/16
What would life be like with no rules no parents no morales and being only 12 years old? Lord Of The Flies is a story about a plane full of british children that crashes over the pacific ocean where everyone survives besides for the pilot. The young school boys find themselves on an uninhabited island with no laws no parents and just there morales to hold on to. In lord Of The Flies by Stephen King , Piggy and Jack can be catagorized under the archetypal character roles of the Mentor and the dark side The character that most adequately fits the archetypal role as the mentor would be piggy due to his bountiful knowledge and realist attitude. Piggy shows that he is the most adequately fit for the mentor role After the Boys take his glasses to start the fire leaving him nearly blind. Piggy trys to tell them to give the back but he is overpowered by the other boys and he says “"Look, I'm goin' to say, you're stronger than I am and you haven't got asthma...But I don't ask for my glasses back, …show more content…
As the boys start to hunt more and more they become more animal like and much more brutal as shown when the boys kill this pig and are overly brutal while doing so “Here, struck down by the heat, the sow fell and the hunters hurled themselves at her. This dreadful eruption from an unknown world made her frantic; she squealed and bucked and the air was full of sweat and noise and blood and terror […]. The spear moved forward inch by inch and the terrified squealing became a high-pitched scream. Then Jack found the throat and the hot blood spouted over his hands. The sow collapsed under them […].(104)” In this quote it is shown how savage we can be if not kept in check and it demonstrates how this brutality is in all of us and we would like to eliminate it but we
Wepfer
English 2
Lord of the Flies
5/23/16
What would life be like with no rules no parents no morales and being only 12 years old? Lord Of The Flies is a story about a plane full of british children that crashes over the pacific ocean where everyone survives besides for the pilot. The young school boys find themselves on an uninhabited island with no laws no parents and just there morales to hold on to. In lord Of The Flies by Stephen King , Piggy and Jack can be catagorized under the archetypal character roles of the Mentor and the dark side The character that most adequately fits the archetypal role as the mentor would be piggy due to his bountiful knowledge and realist attitude. Piggy shows that he is the most adequately fit for the mentor role After the Boys take his glasses to start the fire leaving him nearly blind. Piggy trys to tell them to give the back but he is overpowered by the other boys and he says “"Look, I'm goin' to say, you're stronger than I am and you haven't got asthma...But I don't ask for my glasses back, …show more content…
As the boys start to hunt more and more they become more animal like and much more brutal as shown when the boys kill this pig and are overly brutal while doing so “Here, struck down by the heat, the sow fell and the hunters hurled themselves at her. This dreadful eruption from an unknown world made her frantic; she squealed and bucked and the air was full of sweat and noise and blood and terror […]. The spear moved forward inch by inch and the terrified squealing became a high-pitched scream. Then Jack found the throat and the hot blood spouted over his hands. The sow collapsed under them […].(104)” In this quote it is shown how savage we can be if not kept in check and it demonstrates how this brutality is in all of us and we would like to eliminate it but we