Persuasive Essay On Lord Of The Flies

“Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever” and right then, the lever released a rock which killed Piggy (Golding 180), a crucial character in William Golding’s Novel Lord of the Flies. Golding’s novel features a group of boys from about six to fifteen years old who are marooned on an island where their plane crashed. The boys all agree that they need to survive, but their ways of doing so divides them. One of the boys, Ralph, proposes that they as a group should create a signal fire so that a rescue team can spot them, an idea thought of by Piggy. On the other hand, a violent minded youngster, Jack, believes that the only way to survive is to hunt and kill wild boars. As time passes, Jack’s group becomes more comparable to savages within their rituals which separates the two packs even further. Considering the fact that Ralph’s group is being realistic about escaping the island which is consuming their sanity, they have fire which Jack’s group does not …show more content…
In New York state, a young teen killed a four year-old by dropping “two large rocks on Derrick's head, which were determined to be the young boy's cause of death” (Mauro).The teen’s homicidal actions resulted in a nine-year prison sentence. Almost a ditto to Piggy’s death, the four year-old boy was killed by stones. Most would agree that an almost a clone of a crime deserves the same consequence. Roger might have had a violent past which the teen experienced, but that is no excuse. Regardless of any past experiences or trauma, Roger’s careless actions resulted in a murder. He is responsible for the death of another human being, and by definition, qualifies his action to be a homicide. If he were to appear in front of a jury today, he would be convicted and sent away. It is possible that the jury may convict him of manslaughter, but that is still a form of murder that some have been sent away