Lord Of The Flies Lessons

In Lord of the Flies by, William Golding, the author displays many different lessons and, provides a good plot line. In Lord of the Flies, a group of boys crash land on a random island and are left stranded. After being stranded on an island, the boys have to come together to find a way to collect food, make shelter, find a way to make fire, and most importantly find a way off the island. All of the boys have different ways of going about things. This creates conflict between the boys, which leads to bigger problems for them. “Where does the line of “evil” truly begin on the island?” The arguing and the constant fighting on the island lead to the first act of true evil. The savages wanna kill a thing that they call the “Beast”. They get so …show more content…
This is a major act of evil because Jack had ordered all the boys to kill Simon. He feels no remorse after he had ordered his men to kill this “Beast”. Ralph felt the worst because he had just had his tribe ripped away from him, for Jack to turn around and kill one of his own with his old tribe. The next day Jack only worried about getting food and meat for his tribe instead of thinking what he had done and how it affected his people. This is a pure act of evil. For example, “Tomorrow we will hunt again. Some of you will stay here to improve the cave and defend the gates. I shall take a few hunters with me and bring back meat.”. This is proving that the only thing that Jack cared about was meat for his tribe. He didn’t not care that he just killed one of his men, and he also didn’t care that his tribe was upset about it. This true act of evil by Jack goes along with the other acts of evil he had already committed. Jack killed Simon, only cared about food after killing Simon, and he didn’t care that his tribe was …show more content…
Jack had stole all of the tribe away from Ralph and made his own leaving only Ralph, Piggy, Samneric, and some Littleluns. Some people might think this because if Jack didn’t take the throne away from Ralph the killing of Simon would’ve never occurred. Killing someone and taking away from someone are two very different things and killing someone is evil taking something away from someone isn’t evil but wrong.
Ultimately, What was the first act of “evil” in Lord of the Flies? Jack didn’t care that his boys were grieving, all he cared about was meet and the cave. Ralph didn’t know how to deal with SImon’s death so he tried to blame Simon. People might think that Jack stealing the throne from Ralph was the first act of evil, when ultimately it was Jack and his tribe killing Simon. The first true act of “Evil” was when Jack ordered his tribe to kill the so called “Beast”, who was actually Simon, and killed