The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a fantastic but ominous story broken into three parts. The first section is when the protagonist, Ralph and a group on children, arrive on the island with everything seeming to be great at first. Following the events of the boys’ arrival is a dead parachutists lands on the island and all law of nature and ethics cease to apply to the kids anymore. In the final section of the book, there is no happy ending; the novel started off as if the children were in blissfulness, but had taken a turn for the worst when the children lost all sense of what was right and ended up becoming savage. The story starts off with a bunch of the boys stranded on a tropical island. This is a perfect post for a group …show more content…
Ralph shows this several times in the first chapter by swimming in a lagoon and standing on his head. "Ralph lolled in the water system," as directly quoted from the novel. All the kids seemed happy about being together on the island and had the idea that they would be rescued soon. The children in the first section of the book still follow the constabulary and rules that they had known back home. Jack, "The huntsman,” was not able to bring himself in killing a hog when the boys started hunting. "In his first face-off with a pig, Jack fails, unable to plunge his knife into livelihood flesh, to bear the deal of flowing blood, and unable to do so because he is not yet far enough away from the ‘taboo of the old life.’” This quote shows that Jack and the boys still have retained their morals and …show more content…
Simon was weeping out something about the dead man on the hill. The boys however chanted, “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” The group of boys were under a spell in the instant and ended up putting Simon to death with the idea that he was in fact the beast. “Simon is murdered not only without compunction, but with orgiastic delight.” The island is not a pleasant place anymore. The group of boys were enacting a barbaric nature, killing in every direction, fabricating bruit noises and the blissfulness had ceased on the island. This section of the script ends when the chute drifts out to sea, for the parachute is not essential in the narrative now because of the “fact of evilness has actually been created on the island” through Simon’s