Hannah McLellan
Mrs. Odolphy
ENG2D1-01
17 January 2018
The Loss Of Civilization:
Comparing Ralph And Jack’s Change Throughout A group of young British boys in the time period may seem that boys stranded on an island would create a perfect community, the Lord of the flies says they wouldn't. William Golding's Lord of the flies is a story about a time of war where a plane is carrying a group of British schoolboys that gets shot down over the Pacific. The pilot of the plane is killed, but many of the boys survive the crash and find themselves deserted on an uninhabited island, where they are alone without adult supervision and natural human nature arises.The boys are from the ages nine to twelve and have not been left alone without adult supervision
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In the beginning of the novel we are introduced to two boys, Ralph and Jack, who both are english school boys. The boys both come from tightly wound civilization and have always had adult supervision. From the beginning it is clear the boys both have different personalities, where Ralph is a leader because he is obligated to be and Jack is not but fights for power. In the third chapter Ralph, along with the help of Simon, is building huts on the beach for survival. This shows Ralph wants to have civilization on the island and doesn't want to live like savages. It is evident Ralph wants civilization when he says “And another thing. We can't have everybody talking at once. We’ll have to have ‘Hands up’ like at school. [...] That's what this thing is called. I’ll give the conch to the next person to speak. He can hold it when he's speaking”(Golding 31). This shows that Ralph has a sense of rules and order. He is the chief and decides that speaking freely may cause problems so he makes his rules and enforces them to the best of his abilities. He uses the conch because he knows the boys look up to it as a sacred object because it brought them all together. Making rules is a good example of Ralphs ties to