Equality In Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

Equality

Do you enjoy feeling of lesser value than someone else due to something that is completely out of your own control? Of course not! No one wants to be the outsider looking in. The strive for equality is a big part of all the lives of the characters in The Book Thief, Great Expectations, and The Lord of The Flies. Fairness in the books varies from feeling as if you are a floater, to the worry of being arrested because you have a different religion and physical look from another group of people. In The Lord of The Flies, the boys deal with struggling for rights. Great Expectation is all about Pip seeking a higher status. The Book Thief has a slightly darker story, based on a real live event, with characters that are murdered for not being

Characters like Piggy have a disadvantage from the rest of the boys which is an unfortunate weakness for them. As stated by Lowry the boys talk about, “Piggy’s glasses” (Lowry 67). Piggy is not very strong to begin with and that is the begging of his separation from the other children. Piggy’s sight impairment puts the boys in an undesirable situation. They have to decide between leaving piggy practically blind and catching the boat, or retrieve his glasses with the chance of missing the boat. This is an example of how someone seen as lesser value is not given the same opportunity as someone with a higher status. If it had been Jack who needed help, there would have been a different

This story was based during the time period of World War II while the holocaust was occuring. Adolf Hitler was capturing Jewish people and sending them to concentration camps where they will eventually be killed, if they have not starved to death already. In the book young Liesel is taken in by the Memingers. In order to keep an old promise Liesel’s Papa, Mr. Meminger takes in a Jewish man and hides him in his basement. This goes to show just how severe and unequal the Jewish people were to the German people. They were unable to walk the streets, even though they are doing no harm, without the risk of being arrested. Or even worse, being sent to a concentration camp. The Memingers show that they do not agree with the rest of society about who should and should not be treated equally. They do this by risking their own lives and welcoming Max, the Jewish man, into their home. The fate of all of the Jewish people in hiding was unknown. In the book it states, “Any time now they could find us out...We don’t know what might happen. I might get caught. You might need to find that place….I’m to scared to ask anyone for help here. They might put me in.” (Zusak 194) This shows the true inescapable fear that the Jewish people felt on a daily