Chapter nine commences by telling its readers about how Lee Harding was diagnosed with E coli 0157:H7. After eating some tacos at a Mexican restaurant, he started to have excruciating stomach pains and diarrhea. Harding’s stomach was hurting because of some frozen hamburgers he ate a couple of days ago. Those same hamburgers provided by Hudson Foods were infected with E. coli 0157:H7. Millions of those same frozen hamburgers had already been sold and most likely eaten.
The last question that needs to be asked relates to what would be changing about Queequeg if he were to be reborn. As Queequeg is likened to being between a caterpillar and a butterfly, it is important to examine what Queequeg’s caterpillar and butterfly could be. An answer may be discovered in Queequeg’s arm, as Ishmael describes it, “This arm of his tattooed all over with an interminable Cretan labyrinth of a figure” (Melville 37). A labyrinth, on the surface, is something to escape – though it is not Queequeg’s arm itself that is the labyrinth, but the tattoos. While tattoos are permanently etched into skin, they are ultimately an addition to the usually unblemished skin of a newborn.
Ralph is proud of himself for killing the pig, and wants everyone to know. However, this causes problems later as now he is pulled to do so with Jack again. When Jack leaves the boys he takes away their physiological needs, “We hunt and feast and have fun. If you want to join my tribe come and see us…” (Golding 140).
Ralph calms the boys and tells them they will be rescued if they make a signal fire to get passing ships' attention. Jack takes over and it has everybody follow him up the mountain to start a fire. On top of the mountain the boys see a patch of dead wood and use it to start the fire. Jack and his choirboys become the hunters and try to keep the fire going. Piggy gets upset because the boys did not think about building a shelter before they started the fire they also didn't realize that some boys were playing in the area where the fire had been started and they possibly died.
Ralph and his group focus on survival and rescue, where as Jack and his party concentrate on hunting and savagery. In the midst of a dance consisting of Jack and his tribe along with Ralph and Piggy, they kill a boy named Simon. Each tribe begins to spiral down after their beloved conch, breaks. Another casualty occurs when Roger kills Piggy
They will soon begin hunting throughout the island. Golding proves that we can all revert to savagery through Jack Merridew’s killing attempts. Jack’s once reasonable manner is quickly disappearing, as being stranded on an island starts to take a toll. After coming back from their exploration, the boys find a piglet in the grass. They run towards it, excited
He goes hunting with other boys on the island, and they successfully kill a pig. Unfortunately, they let the signal fire out in the process. Ralph tries to look for the boys, when they come marching in, carrying a dead pig. The boys, led by Jack, are chanting “kill the pig. Cut her throat.
Jack was walking back from the hunt with his fellow hunters Sam and Eric, who were carrying the pig. When Jack saw Ralph he raised his spear and excitedly told Ralph that he had killed the
Back in chapter seven, the boys had decided to make the journey to the mountain to see the beast for what it really was. Interestingly enough, this is also the moment when Ralph’s wild instincts infer that he has the capacity for savagery, similar to Jack. As Golding reveals Ralph’s backstory of his old home, it was described as an ordinary household. But this civilized spark was juxtaposed immediately with a scene of a boar which Ralph happened to hit. The scene shifts to savagery and after, the boys “playfully” reenact the scene with Roger as the boar.
Ralph and Piggy try to maintain law and order, but the innocence with them is lost. Additionally, Jack’s desire for hunting and blood kills Simon. Jack’s actions also reflect on Roger’s actions, which kills Piggy. Losing civilization amongst the group leads the boys to disrespect the society as a whole, and they will never be able to return to civilized boys there
Second Draft This semester, we have finished the book called “The lord of the flies” wrote by William Golding. It’s a story about a group of boy survived in a barren island, and waiting for rescue, at first, they were very peace and help each other. But they have no longer help each other anymore, they separate into two groups, Jack and Ralph. Jack group was returned to the wild, become primitive ; Ralph group was still in civilization, waiting for help.
Astonished by his findings, the naval officer stood quietly as the boys finally got control of themselves. Curious as he was, the officer found it best to refrain from too many questions after just witnessing the boy's obvious unstable states. All of the boys scrambled onto the cruiser while most of their heads hung down as if they were too heavy to lift. Ralph imagined his life before the island, telling himself he should be relieved that they were rescued, but he could not help but worry about the new life ahead of him. Ralph observed each of the boys surrounding him, wondering if they were nervous to go home like him.
The pig-hunt degenerates into man-hunt. The savages with their paint and spears spread terror. First he tried to crush Ralph with elephant sized rocks, if he were hiding in the tall grass. When that failed, he smoked him out and set fire to the island itself. Ralph is horrified at his own plight.
Simon fainted. When he woke up, he went to the mountain, where he saw the dead parachutist. He understood then that the beast did not exist in real life but rather within each of the boys. Simon traveled to the beach to tell the others what he had seen. But the others were in the midst of a fight, even Ralph and Piggy joined Jack’s feast.
Ethics comes from the Greek: êthos, place where one lives, is what Aristotle called a way of being, character; something that the person can build, mold. The human being can shape his character, his way of being. The individual is not fatally determined to live being always the same; He can then build his way of being, to say it like the Greeks, his êthos. Let us ask now, how can the êthos be shaped? Through the creation of habits, which comes to constitute our way of being.
