Choose one theme from the text so far, and discuss how it has been displayed by the author Ever since the beginning of time, in every species, there has always been the process of natural selection, wether it is someone who can't run fast enough to escape a predator, or someone that is dumb enough to drink and drive then get in a car crash. Society has been trying to take away the process of natural selection, but when Golding puts these boys in a savage habitat, the separation of the weak and the strong becomes very prominent. The book puts a group of prepubescent boys in a wild setting, where mental strength matters very little, whereas physical strength is the main trait determines whether or not you survive. "So we may be here a long
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"Alright, who want Jack for chief"... "Who wants me" When this happens we notice that no one else's name really even comes up in the fight for chief. Ralph already seem to have all the power because he pretty much determined who could have been chief, and no one said anything against this. The idea of natural selection and separating the weak and the strong been almost completely removed from civilized living because of an "over-compensation", society used to treat people that were different in some aspects (skin color or religion) poorly, but people soon started to realized that this was not very good so we started trying to treat everyone the same, even the weak. When these boys get put into a savage setting, they separate the weak from the strong by calling them different names. "The smaller boys were know to the generic title of "littluns". The decreased size from Ralph down was gradual.... Nevertheless, no one had any difficulties recognizing the biguns at one end and the littluns at the other" The boys get classified into groups based on their size, and with this size, Golden mentions that they all have the same personality. "They ate most of the day, picking fruit where they could reach it, and not particular about ripeness and quality. They were now sed to stomachs and chronic diarrhea." In
"Alright, who want Jack for chief"... "Who wants me" When this happens we notice that no one else's name really even comes up in the fight for chief. Ralph already seem to have all the power because he pretty much determined who could have been chief, and no one said anything against this. The idea of natural selection and separating the weak and the strong been almost completely removed from civilized living because of an "over-compensation", society used to treat people that were different in some aspects (skin color or religion) poorly, but people soon started to realized that this was not very good so we started trying to treat everyone the same, even the weak. When these boys get put into a savage setting, they separate the weak from the strong by calling them different names. "The smaller boys were know to the generic title of "littluns". The decreased size from Ralph down was gradual.... Nevertheless, no one had any difficulties recognizing the biguns at one end and the littluns at the other" The boys get classified into groups based on their size, and with this size, Golden mentions that they all have the same personality. "They ate most of the day, picking fruit where they could reach it, and not particular about ripeness and quality. They were now sed to stomachs and chronic diarrhea." In