Lord Of The Flies Adaptation Analysis

Adaptation is a way that an animal’s body adjusts to help it survive in its environment; rapid adaptation usually taking place when there is a sudden change in location or lifestyle for an animal. It’s been scientifically proven that humans, being mammals, also have this occur to them on both small and large scales. Night and Lord of the Flies are both tremendous examples of humans reverting to their primal instincts in order to survive, and both stories fixate on inexperienced children as children cannot properly converse or support themselves, causing them to risk their survival and pressuring them to make extreme decisions. Both of these pieces of literature include examples of physiological changes in humans in order to keep them healthy, emotional contagion amongst the group of characters so as to form a community, and a large focus on the natural fight or flight response when subjected to immense stress. Accordingly, all are adaptations that help the …show more content…
Their fight or flight reactions save them from almost certain death in both stories. In Lord of the Flies it is written, “the ferns and the grass were near. That was the place to be in, hidden, and next to the thicket that would serve for tomorrow’s hideout” (Golding 191). This is an example of Ralph’s flight instinct, when he hides from his enemies it is another second that he stays alive. Also, in Night it says, “ I was thinking not about death but about not wanting to be separated from my father. We had already suffered so much, endured so much together. This was not the moment to separate” (Wiesel 82). This is an example of Elie’s strong fight instinct. His instincts are what keeps him going and is one of the main reasons why he survives as long as he does. Both stories have characters that seem to gravitate towards different sides of the fight or flight reflex, but in their respective stories, it is one of the things that keep them