Lord Of The Flies Identity Quotes

A child's normal routine, back at their old home, consist of going to school and hanging with their friends or siblings; however, their norms that they would usually have had been drifting away from them. Most of the boys' appearances had been wiped away with a darker version of themselves instead of their normal innocence. Golding wrote Ralph's thoughts to question "if faces were different when lit from above or below, what was a face? What was anything?" (Golding 78); furthermore, this quote is reflecting Ralph's thinking, if a face can seem different in different ways the light is cast then is it real? From the clouded minds of the young boys, they believe that if they change the way their faces look, then it would turn them into another person that isn't theirs: "the comment relates to the hunters from a sense of individual responsibility for their masked

deeds" ("lord of the flies"). Golding portrayed the boys to be bloody hungry monsters with their hunting paint and masks on but without it they are innocent boys. …show more content…
The logic and a mental state of a person correlate in many ways, as many like to rationalize through people, others go by scientific evidence. One of the main characters that determines what to do based on facts and safety is Piggy: "most characters in the story show elements of both reason and emotion; Piggy, with his interest in science and fact, may seem to represent life of reason." ("Lord of the Flies"). The author wrote his book to show a conflict between reason and emotion by "using two characters, as Ralph, the daydreamer, struggles to remember the rational ideas Piggy had" ("Lord of the Flies"). These two characters use their key element in making the island less evil; nonetheless, they balance each other out to help them