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Lord Of The Flies Critical Analysis

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Areil Castro kidnapped, abused, starved, tortured, and held three girls captive for ten years, Kermit Gosnell killed live babies under his cover as a doctor, and Charles Manson brutally murdered and tortured Sharon Tate and cut out her unborn child. One thing all these criminals have in commons is that they were all once innocent boys just like the boys in Lord of the Flies by William Golding. In the beginning of Lord of the Flies, the boys were innocent and playful but as the book progresses, the civilization they made came crashing down, the boys become psychologically imbalanced and their beliefs drastically changed as well as their behavior. Coral Island started out as a paradise for the boys, but ended up as a hell. Lord of the Flies portrays the civilization that the boys attempted to make but also the total breakdown of society. “We’ve got to have rules and obey them…we are not savages” (Golding, 42). In this quote, it shows that the boys tried to create a civilization by setting some ground rules. For example, some of the rules they made included: having a rule for democratic speech by using the conch to command both listening and respect and also having specific boys assigned to either hunt, build shelters or to watch the fire. These rules provided boundaries and although the boys attempted to create an organized civilization, the breakdown of their so-called society would come shortly after. “The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch
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