We were all sitting around the lunch table, and then suddenly my two friends Briaden and Joel started fighting each other. I tried to see why they were fighting when I noticed a bag of chips between their clashing bodies. They were fighting for a bag of chips! Both of them looked like barbarics de-evolutionised back to their primal instincts to fulfill their one craving, hunger. The need to fulfill a hunger for something brings out the darkest in all of us. This correlation is what can cause a society to turn bad and against one another.
In the novel The Lord Of The Flies, the kids stranded on the island do not know it, but they hunger to be part of society, and each one slowly over time takes different paths to cope with the fact that they might be saved or might not. Jack in the novel, The Lord Of The Flies gets assigned the position of the hunter. When Jack gets the first opportunity to kill a wild boar he hesitates. “Jack drew his knife again with a flourish. He raised his arm in the air. There came a pause, a hiatus, the pig continued to scream and the creepers to jerk, and the blade continued to flash at the end of a bony arm. The pause was only long enough for them to understand what an enormity the downward stroke would
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Moreover on that statement, he is also shown as the one person on the island who has no fear out of the entirety of the children stranded there. He hungers for the rest of them to stay attached to civilization and have faith in the rest of the world ending their squabble and saving them from themselves on the island. He walks around the island like there is nothing to fear at all. He is shown doing this to prove that there truly was not anything to fear and that humanity's hunger for instant gratification was driving them closer and closer to their primal instincts. It was controlling them because they hungered to many things other than society and safety at