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Who Is Responsible In Lord Of The Flies

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The Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a book about kids stuck on an island with no adults. This book could have been more appealing. How they described the boys when they had a little ounce of power is disturbing. They should get punished for what they did on the island, because if we do not, they will continue to do so. The kids who had inhabited the island should have been more responsible and caring. There were twelve and six-year-olds. They cannot tell that none of these twelve-year-olds can be responsible as the boys could not be responsible, leading to neglecting their duties, engaging in violent acts, and succumbing to savage impulses. They failed to maintain order, mistreated each other, and mainly resorted to fighting, showing a lack of accountability for their actions. The violent …show more content…

The death of Simon, ‘the beast was harmless; the news must reach the others as soon as possible.’ When Simon is crawling to the campsite, to tell them the beast is harmless. The boys dance around the fire chanting, which empowers them. They are so sucked in that when Simon finally makes it back, they think Simon is the beast and beat him to death. Highlights the loss of innocence or humanity, the start of survival of the fittest for the boys and animals. Piggy was a boy who held it all together when Rogue killed Piggy by rolling a boulder, symbolizing the loss of civilization and reason or hope among the boys. Piggy's death was a changing point in the boys' lives, the last string to snap. The boys had no hope, so they were fully submerged in the dark depths of savagery and chaos, as he represented intellect and order on the island. If the boys did not have the power to begin, they would still have their humanity. If they had no power over each other, they would have had a dramatic difference on the island, and it would not have turned out the way it did for them the first

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