The Hero's Journey In Lord Of The Flies

“Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It’s a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.” As Eric Burdon said, we have the potential of both good and evil, but it isn’t fixed at birth. People cannot be born with a bad heart, they do not start on the “ the dark side” so to say. They grow to be evil and brooding depending on their circumstances, the situations that they have been put through, and the choices they make during them. People also need a guide, or friend to help them stay on that side, never letting them into wrongdoing. This is shown in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies , as the boys are pushed through terrible obstacles, and the task to survive. Golding shows amazingly

Someone important to the story. In The Odyssey: A Teaching Guide, “The Hero’s Journey” is thoughtfully explained. “The Hero’s Journey” is a pattern that almost all stories follow. One of the most important parts is the help of the guide. It says that “The hero encounters an helper as the journey begins: a guide and protector…” (Strand, 38) Without a guide, people can go astray. The boys in the story seem to have not one, but two guides throughout the story. Piggy is Ralph's friend, he helps him through a lot of the challenges, and share a lot of logical decisions to help him. He is definitely considered a guide. Because Ralph follows Piggy, he never seems to turn to the “dark side”. He isn’t a savage like the others, who pushed Piggy away. Simon could also be considered a guide because he understood more about what was going on better than the others. He was able to figure out that the monster wasn’t really a monster. But no one ever listened to Simon, they made him an outcast, when really he could have helped them a lot.That is why they couldn’t think straight, they turned into monsters because they didn’t follow their “guides”. Otherwise, the story may have taken a better

They must also have a protector and guide to help them grow into something good, that could make a difference in the world. But nobody is stuck as one or the other, especially when they are born. They cannot be born good or evil, it is for them to decide. This is shown through characters such as Jack Merridew in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, and the use of young boys as the characters. They boys also push away their only “guides” of sorts, leading to their personality changes with evil weaved into