Roger's Transformation In Lord Of The Flies

In the novel, Lord Of The Flies, by William Golding, the main characters go through major changes reflecting on people act on society. The young boys are stranded on an island and they came across situations to solve and overcome with. A character named Roger who is characterized as mysterious, enjoyed hurting other people, and also was the sidekick to Jack. Roger throughout the story had different stages of increasing violence as it progressed as the novel went on. Roger’s transformation from order and respect to savage human nature causes the society they created to deal with his nuisance.
A: When Roger was first introduced to the novel, he was a furtive and mysterious boy. Roger is characterized as a boy “...who kept to himself with avoidance and secrecy” (22). This reference shows that he is secretive almost as if he is hiding something making him seem like a shy person from another person’s perspective. Then in Chapter 4, Roger’s transformation takes a giant leap as “[he] lead the way […] kicking castles, scattering the

Roger killed “...one pig, with a demented shriek, [as] it rushed into the sea trailing Roger’s spear” (134) then “Roger found a lodgment for his point [...], he began to push [...] with his whole weight (135). Many readers may comprehend that he was just killing the pig for food, but going forward as a reader gets to understand Roger, it was just the author foreshadowing that more violence to is to come from him moving forward. Then when Jack tells Roger to sharpen the spear at both ends, “[Jack] spoke over [Roger’s] shoulder [...] to tell him to sharpen a stick at both ends” (136). This act was another setup from Roger because Roger was to put one end to the ground and Ralph’s severed head on the other end of the spear. Roger’s acts in the middle of the story put lives at a huge risk to their society on the