Salvation In Lord Of The Flies Essay

The boys on the island turn the necessities they needed on for survival into symbols representing the sinful nature of humans. Since Jack and Roger are the two darkest people Golding writes into the book, it only makes sense that together they prove an aspect of human’s sinful nature. Throughout the book there is only one female character, and even then she was shown to be violated in the most violent way. Roger and Jack found a nursing sow during a pig hunt and decided to stalk her down to hunt and kill. “This dreadful eruption from an unknown world made her frantic; she squealed and bucked and the air was full of sweat and noise and blood and terror. Roger ran round the heap, prodding with his spear whenever pig flesh appeared. Jack was on …show more content…
This not only shows how they were capable of making something good into something bad, but it also shows how some of the boys on the island were able to take the biggest necessity-the island- and ruin it. Jack setting the island on fire only shows how irresponsible and lustful for blood he is, because not even Jack understands that burning the island is burning their home and without the island they all can’t survive. However, the destruction of the island started way before the total regression of the boys. Within the first few chapters it is evident that the little ones are deciding to use the bathroom anywhere they can find on the island. Ralph realizes that you can use the bathroom the same place you eat and sleep and reinforces that “We’ve all got to use the rocks again. This place is getting dirty (The Lord of the Flies pg. 81).” Then comes the flies. In an area that was once dancing with butterflies was filled with the hanging shadow of death and with death comes flies. After Jack and his boys killed the sow, they cut of her head and placed it on a stick in a clearing that was one of the most beautiful places on the