When a plane crashed into the ocean, and the boy’s swam to an island, fear hadn’t kicked in yet. Ralph seemed to be very excited in fact, to realize that there were no adults. On the other hand, Piggy was a bit scared. ““Perhaps there aren’t any grownups anywhere.” The fat boy looked startled.” (Golding 8) But little did they know that their point of view on an island without adults would change. After all the boys met up, there were stories about a “beast”. The little kids were scared of this “beast”, and they had nightmares. The older boys too had moments where they were scared that they might come across it while traveling across the huge island. The fear in their minds began to change them from who they were when they arrived on the island. Simon, had …show more content…
He started his own tribe, and wanted to hunt Ralph, Piggy and the twins. Mass amounts of fear can completely change the way someone acts. They may not act like their usual selves. In “Harrison Bergeron”, Harrison busted a door open, and arrived in the middle of a television broadcast. Proceeding to take off all of his handicaps and throw them onto the floor, he claimed, “I am the Emperor! Everybody must do what I say at once!””(Vonnegut Jr. 8) He asked for one of the ballerinas in the room to stand up. ““Let the first woman who dares rise to her feet claim her mate and her throne!”(Vonnegut Jr. 8) She was scared, so she stood up, knowing that something bad may happen, and she could possibly save herself. Harrison scared people so much that everyone seemed to be frozen, and he removed their masks to reveal their identities. Their fear caused them not to fight back, or reject what was happening, and they all cowered down. Fear can control people to do good things as well. In “The Most Dangerous Game”, by Richard Connell, Rainsford falls off of a ship into the