Pig

soon enough, he begins to succumb to this nature. This was first seen when he wounded the pig and shouted, “I hit him all right. The spear stuck in. I wounded him” (Golding 113)! Although he was able to repress them for a while, he is no different from the other boys on the island since they are still all adolescents and are not immune to the evil that resides within them. Ralph's exhilaration of harming the pigs reveals that even he has a savage side to him and failed to recognize this instinct…

and later on is where all chaos broke loose. In the Lord Of Flies the kids innocence has been lost by the killing of a momma pig, the killing of a young boy, and a loss of innocence was even shown through their clothes. The boys loss their innocence is by tracking down a momma pig and killing her. The boys tracked and hunted a pig, and eventually came upon a female pig nursing her babies. “She squealed and bucked and the air was full of sweat and noise and blood and terror. The spear moved…

It illustrates the increasing loss of innocence by manifesting only after an act of true evil was committed- the “raping” of the sow. When Simon first discovers it, it “speaks” to him by way of a hallucination caused by his epilepsy, and introduces itself as the "Beastie" (Elliott, Joyce, Shorvon, “Delusions”). This is ironic as the Lord of the Flies is composed of a truly innocent creature- the murdered sow. That the boys are determined to kill it suggests that they are intent on destroying…

don't connect it to a dead carcass it's food nothing more. We grow up learning that even in children's books we separate cute farm animals from are food. Society makes industry animals life's no longer a life but simple a product. “we eat pork not pigs, veal not baby calfs, animals are not killed in a slaughterhouse but processed in a packaging plant” -Dana Jones. Effect on the animals. People don't see what happens to the animals in the factories. Around 27,397,260 living, thinking, animals…

need to get food for everyone to survive but he disapproves of their obsession with hunting until he joins them and has an amazing time. Ralph throws his spear at a pig and, “he stunned himself in their new respect and felt that hunting was good after all.” (Golding 124). Ralph earns the respect of all the older boys when he hits the pig because he has participated in what they like to spend all their time doing. Their praise gives Ralph the false idea that he is doing the right thing which…

addition, another theme of Lord of the Flies is determination. Determination plays a major part in the life of the boys on the island. Without it, the boys would have given up once when their plane crashed on the island, or when they let their first pig get away. They would not have had the willpower to continue surviving on the…

the boys valued it more than others. Jack, one of the older boys who gradually became more and more savage as the story unravelled, had a very consistent kill streak. He and his choir boys were in charge of keeping the signal fire going and killing pigs for meat. A relatively simple task in theory, but Jack could not handle all the power and essentially failed to care for the fire. His main focus was killing, and in doing so, he forgot about the fire completely. On one occasion, Ralph and Simon…

from spilling another’s blood. “I was going to, I was choosing a place. Next time- !” (Golding, 29). Jack is referring to killing a piglet that they found as they were walking through the jungle. He tells Ralph and Simon that he is going to kill the pig the next time. In order to keep his fearless demeanor. This gave Jack the determination to kill, which pointed Jack to the direction of savagery. Nonetheless, towards the end of the book, Jack murders Simon along with his tribe. “At once the…

hunting and while they are hunting they see a mother pig with her piglets, and they decide to kill the mother. While hunting the mother, they end up killing some of her piglets, “One piglet, with a demented shriek, rushed into the sea trailing Roger’s spear behind it. The sow gave a gasping squeal and staggered up, with two spears sticking in her fat flank.” (134) This is significant because it shows how Jack changes from not killing the first pig and being nervous of killing in the beginning to…

Jack, Ralph, and Simon explore the island in an attempt to look for help. The boys come across a pig stuck in ‘creepers’ and Jack brandishes his knife to prepare for killing the pig, however it escapes, and he tells Ralph and Simon that he was just “choosing a place [… Jack] was just waiting for a moment to decide where to stab him” (Golding 31). This proves that Jack is tentative to kill the pig, but gets a taste for hunting. While he did not perform a savage act, this situation is…