The Sheep-Pig

Jack, one of the main characters, is attempting to hunt this pig for sustenance. However he does not succeed and when he comes back he voices his though that “I thought I might- kill.” (Chap 3. Pg 71) Jack is still unsure of going through with these actions and the concept that he could’ve killed has been embedded…

Censorship. It’s a word that gives some the sense of protection, however others feel thatsomething important is lost. Truth is, something is lost, truth. Many great works of literaturehave suffered from censorship and others have even been banned. The Lord of the Flies is noexception, a ban slowly creeps up, like a shadow obscuring truth.The Lord of the Flies depicts children (the main ones are: Ralph, Jack, Piggy, and Simon)in a deserted island. It explores the theme of savagery and…

“What are we? Humans? Or Animals? Or Savages?” (William Golding). Everyone has questioned their existence every once and awhile. Humans come so far and some are still are not capable to stay sane. We need people around us, rules to keep us in shape, but when someone is pulled from all of that do they act out or will they try to keep that normalism they are so use to having. William Golding believed humans are truly messed up in the head. In the novel Lord of the Flies, Golding really shows in…

referring to both of them as the beast. Golding makes a connection from a motherly pig to Simon and British soldiers. The sow in “maternal bliss” on page 134 was similar to Simon in terms of his maternal caring for the littluns and the tribe. To strengthen the connection between the pig and the British, Golding carefully crafted a scenario where the savages used guerilla tactics to attack, similar to what Thailand did and the pig, unprepared for the foreign tactics, ran to the water, which is…

Lord of the Flies, was written by William Golding in 1954. The novel is about a group of boys, ages 6 - 12, who get stranded on a deserted island during a plane crash. With no adults around, the boys are left to fend and govern themselves. It started off well but as one can imagine leaving young, immature boys in charge of one another was not the best thing to have occurred. In this book Golding gives the reader a glimpse of the savagery that underlies even the most civilized human beings. Now…

Exiled from the group, Ralph attempts to survive alone and hides from the same boys that had been under his leadership just a few days ago. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a group of young British boys become stranded on an uninhabited island. Initially, a boy named Ralph is elected as the leader of the group. However, as the story progresses, the group spirals into chaos and savagery. In the beginning, Ralph serves as an effective leader through the initial stages of the boys’ time on…

Kayla Hardersen Partyka English, 7 20 August 2015 Reading Journal Chapters 1-2 Character Evaluation In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, Piggy is a self-conscious, proper schoolboy; however, he is having trouble adjusting to the island and the boys on it. Piggy wants to be heard and respected by the boys on the island, but his overweight appearance and unfortunate nickname make it difficult for the boys to take him seriously. Despite being a well-mannered boy, Piggy has outbursts of anger…

“Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.” Octavia E. Butler. Everyone needs their “place” in society: leader, hunter, builder, or even follower and securing a place in society can often lead to conflict. The need for hierarchy is evident all throughout Lord of the Flies, a novel by William Golding about a group of British boys…

amid the roar of bees in the afternoon sunlight, Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach, pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage, passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands."(3.138). during the feast of the first pig hunted simon sees that none of the boys wanted to give piggy any meat.…

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…