Lord Of The Flies Allegory

In the beginning of the year, as a class we started off with the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, allegory. After finishing the novel, it helped me answer the essential question, What is the relationship between the individual and society? William Golding’s writing about how the hunger for power can turn civilized people into savages. For an example, Jack turns from a civilized boy “We’ll have rules! [...] Lots of rules! Then when anyone breaks ‘em--” (Golding, 33). In which, Jack and what society had taught them is that rules are meant to be followed. However over time Jack turns into a savage. “The rules! [...] You’re breaking the rules!” “Who cares?” (Golding, 91). Eventually Jack, forgets all meanings of democracy and becomes

For my social action group and I, we decided to read The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night-Time by Mark Haddon. A book about an autistic boy that goes a journey to find out who had killed his neighbor’s dog, but however found out secrets about his mother. The idea I got from this book was having any type of disability does not make someone less of a human, the only thing different is that they have more of a struggle. An example is “And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? And I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.” (Haddon, 163). The second book was The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, a book about an Afghan prince that is surviving through the fall of the Afghanistan’s monarchy. The idea I got from this book was race is nothing,but a wall separating people from living peacefully. An example of this is, “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...” (Hosseini, 100) This unit helped me answer the essential questions, How can we be the change we wish to see in the