Pig

is that after he barged into Mr. Pignati’s house while John was throwing a party inside the house, he proceeded to trash Mr. Pignati’s place by smashing all of his pigs which angered John enough which caused the two to begin fighting. This is shown as Norton is sort of the antagonist throughout the story and I feel him destroying the pigs could have been the breaking point in…

Unlike his last encounter with the pig, once Jack receives another chance to kill the pig he kills it without any hesitation. The savagery caught up onto Jack, it can be seen in his crave for power. Unlike the civilized Jack, the leader of the hunters wasn’t enough power for the savage Jack. Jack used the fear of…

Traditional heroes grace the covers of comic books, the posters for films, and come to mind first when the word hero is mentioned. Traditional heroes are the Supermen of the world, the ones who are larger than life and embody every perfect trait everyone should aspire to have. Grendel, the hero of John Gardner’s novel of the same name, is not a traditional hero by any means. Not only is he not a human, nor attractive, but he storms meadhalls and eats people for entertainment; yet he still…

Flies, the boys accidentally killed Simon in thought of the beast. And so, “Simon’s dead body moved out toward the open sea” (154). The irony of thinking their saviour was the beast is not lost on the reader. Similarly, Robert got hurt playing as a pig and the boys go wild in the circle. “The circle moved in and round. Robert squealed in mock terror, then in real pain” (154). Ralph hit the boat with his spear and, furthermore, he acts upon his feelings. He “hit him”, said Ralph again, “and the…

If you were stranded on an island, how would you survive with a conch, a pair of glasses, and fire? Would a conch help you? How would a pair of glasses be used besides to assist bad eyesight? How else can a fire help you survive besides creating a smoke signal? In the book Lord of the flies, the author, William Golding, writes about a dozen of young boys who are stranded on an island. They find what they can and do what is necessary to survive. The boys depend on a conch, a pair of glasses, and…

became chaotic. The end of innocents all started with the brutal killing of a momma pig . The boys had been stalking the pig and planning to hunt her . They had ran after her while throwing spears until she was down . “she squealed and bucked and the air was full of sweat and noise and blood and terror.” (Golding 135) The boys had kept torturing her by pushing the spear deeper into her . The momma pigs squealed almost seemed to excite the savage boys more and more because they giggled when…

for them not to go hungry. Exploring the island one day, Ralph and Jack come upon a pig. Jack immediately pulls out a knife, but instead of stabbing the pig, his innocence holds him back. The pig runs off and Ralph is confused, but jack blurts out in an embarrassed tone “I was choosing a place; I was just waiting for a moment to decide where to stab him” (Golding 31). Jack was nervous when it came to killing the pig…

In William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, a group of English boys became stranded on an unknown island. Their plane was shot down during the battles of World War II. They crash landed on the island. The pilot died, but fortunately the passengers survived. The group of boys, left to their own devices, had to sustain on the island before rescue can come. Initially the boys wanted to create their own civilization, and recreate what they were used too. They elected a leader, established rules,…

“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…

Hobbes’ belief in the inherent selfishness of human begins who desire power can clearly be seen when Jack kills his first pig and the boys miss the chance of being rescued. In his most famous work, Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes articulates his view on the selfish nature of humans when he writes, “For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they…