Dave Etter Lord Of The Flies And Brother Comparison

If you killed someone, would you feel sorrow and pain? Or would you be careless and not value the human life? In Lord of the Flies by William Golding and “Brother” by Dave Etter, characters in both of the stories committed homicide and were affected differently than the other characters in the stories. In Lord of the Flies and “Brother”, many elements of style including imagery, symbolism, and foreshadowing are shown. People will do horrendous things and it won’t affect how they think or feel.
In the first example in Lord of the Flies when Simon died, his closer friends, Ralph and Piggy, mourned his death and were heartbroken and couldn’t believe that they were partly responsible for the death of Simon. Golding states, “Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill. ‘Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in!’ The sticks fell and the mouth of the new circle crunched and screamed” (Golding 152). This is an example of a symbolism, as it relates to how Jesus died when he had valuable information to share. They were both very important characters, and the other characters in the story lost some very valuable information. An

In imagery, both authors describe something with sadness and yet there are characters that don’t seem to care about someone else of value passing away. In Lord of the Flies, characters tell that they don’t care about others, and in “Brother”, the speaker doesn’t admit to not caring, but by reading what he says and does, the reader can make an inference that he doesn’t want anything to do with his brothers death. With symbolism, they both symbolize something on a greater scale or in a broad statement, as in Jesus Christ or a major problem that the characters are having. They both also foreshadow future events for the characters, and even though it isn’t explained what happened to the speaker in “Brother”, an inference can be made based on the character's