Pig iron

understand what it feels like to be in an unknown premise without adult supervision. The protagonist, Ralph, tries to civilize the boys by establishing rules. However, the demanding Jack disregards Ralph’s rules and establishes those of his own—killing pigs. Soon, the boys slowly lose their innocence as they become attracted towards Jack’s regulations. The modern day readers can understand that the desire for power, lack of civilization and violence all lead to the loss of innocence, which…

“The way to have power is to take it.” Unacceptable things are done to gain supremacy over society. Power attracts the inferiors of all mankind and corrupts the finest. Either society kills to gain the upper hand or they get killed. Power knows how to manipulate mankind and gain dominance over it. Power makes society do atrocious things. In the book “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, the island sees survivors from a plane crash so dreadful that no one would have been alive, but…

increase, so did the severity of their crimes. The first instance of violence can be traced to Jack and his devotion to hunting pigs. Upon returning from the hunt the group of hunters are heard reciting an obscene chant, “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood” (72). This chant becomes a ritual for the boys and is repeated whenever the boys partake in the killing of pigs. In a controlled society and environment, it is highly unlikely that the boys would be able to recite this chant,…

gratify his primal impulses. Jack acts like this because he does not care about the consequences and views the island as a place that he can do whatever he desires. His savagery is shown when he often methodically chants; "'Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!'" and says to the boys; “'Fear can't hurt you any more than a dream. There aren't any beasts to be afraid of on this island....Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!’. It is important…

extreme lust of power. In the beginning Jack accepts the rules and want to work together but gradually his innate evil urges him to make new tribe against Ralph where he sets his rules and protects his followers from unseen beast, they eat pig and color their faces with pig blood. Golding attempts to call every human being is a savage, somehow he is right but it depends on human himself, how much he deals with this idea. 4.2EVIL IN JACK This chapter review character of Jack in “Lord of the…

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Have you ever been terrified by a beast that might be yourself? In the book Lord of the Flies there are a group of boys that are on an island and they had to evacuate from their school because there was a war going on. Their plane ended up crashing at this island and now they are stuck there. The boys started to hear things at night and see things at night and they thought that there was a beast around. The boys all thought different things about the beast; they thought there was a snake thing,…

“Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.” - Matthew Lesko. In the novel Lord of the flies by William Golding, it tells us a story of a group of school boys getting their plane shot down in world war || and invading a tropical island. Without any adults or rules, most of the young boys slipped into the scary abyss of savagery. They had to figure out the ways of a good government. That’s when they discovered the conch shell. The conch shell…

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“Through the Tunnel” In Doris Lessing’s short story, “Through the Tunnel”, the author teaches the reader about setting goals and achieving them. “Through the Tunnel” tells the story of a young English boy named Jerry who’s mother lets him go and allows him to explore the bay. While on the bay, he meets a group of boys who he ends up swimming with. While swimming with the boys, Jerry discovers that the boys are swimming through a tunnel underwater. Eventually, the boys go off somewhere else…