Harrison Bergeron Lord Of The Flies Society Analysis

The novel Lord Of The Flies by William Golding was the first book we looked at as a class. We talked about how the book was allegorical novel and discussed Golding’s interpretation of society through his characters and major conflict. This book was the most helpful to answering our essential questions about individuals and society. Society is made up of many individuals and each person has a role in it. Usually, a leader is put in charge to guide the other individuals of society. Ralph in Lord Of The Flies, plays this role at first as they elect him as leader and he uses the conch to symbolize his position. Then under the leader there are other groups of individuals, like Jack’s hunters who provide food. All the individuals of society are …show more content…
In this units, we looked at Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,” Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron,” and the social contract theory of Rousseau, Locke, and Hobbes. This unit was most helpful in answering the essential question, how do people become who/what they are? The type of person that we end becoming is shaped by our surrounding and interaction with others. This is shown in “Harrison Bergeron,” when Harrison rebels against his society because of the pain they inflict upon him. Harrison became a rebel to his society because his society treated him as an outcast and tortured him. Since Harrison was not surrounded by positive energy, he grows up hating the society he is in. This same idea is demonstrated in Rousseau’s theory of human beings. Rousseau points out that people are born naturally kind and that civilization and their surrounding turns them into “beasts.” The way society treats its individuals dictates the type of person they will …show more content…
In this unit my group and I read the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and we did a social action project based of its injustice. In the book the Brave New World, it is set in a dystopian society where people are conditioned to believe in one way of life, but we meet characters from outside this society that disagrees. John and Bernard are two characters that disagrees with the society’s norms, John more so than Bernard as he was raised outside of their world. The social injustice that was seen in the book was the violation of freedom of expression. Our social action project helped answer the question, What is my role and responsibility as global citizen? From the research portion of the project I learned that I could advocate for human rights by educating others. That was what our social action was based off of, we created stickers which advocates for human rights. We also created a website that would further help educate others about their rights which is the responsibility of a global citizen. The other question that this unit help answer is how can we be the change we wish to see in the world? In the book Everybody Sees The Ants by A.S King, Lucky is constantly bullied, but he goes to his uncle’s house and becomes the change he wanted to see. Once he returned to Pennsylvania, he confronts his bully Nadar and his family overall becomes stronger from their experiences. This teaches me that in