I Don’t Care: An Essay In the book Lord Of The Flies by William Golding, a young boy is brutally murdered by his friends in an attempt to kill the beast. After this happens, the others deny what they have done and descend into animalistic madness, that they realize only when logic and reason save them. Jack’s character changes during the novel, starting as a boy in charge of a choir, afraid to kill a pig, ending with him trying to kill one who was once his friend. In the beginning, Jack feels fear at the desire to kill, “He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up” (51). With this conveyance of fear at the animalistic side of himself, Jack proves that he still has some humanity that he will later lose. After Jack says this, he gets in a fight with Ralph over what should be done for the betterment of the tribe. …show more content…
“quote”(page). Simon talking to the Lord shows that the rational side of the boys is questioning itself when presented with the wild. Piggy claims through the novel that they are nothing like a group of little kids, not seeing the irony that they are, in fact a group of little kids. “quote” ( page). Piggy thinks that they are in fact adults, and wants them to act above their age. The Lord tells Simon that the boys are the beast, and that there is no escape, “This is ridiculous. You know perfectly well you’ll only meet me down there—so don’t try to escape!” (143). This, in conjunction with Simon’s remark that maybe they are the beast, proves that there is no beast, only the boys