Lord of the Flies

A detailed Summary of Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies - The Evil in Us All

" 'The choir belongs to you of course.'

'or hunters'" ( Lord of the Flies pg. 21 ).

That was Ralph's big mistake, giving Jack that power and the right to be hunters. That

power led to the fall of their civilization and the take over of Jack's savage tribe. There is

evil within everyone and everything, it is just a matter of whether or not you let it take

control of you. That is what The Lord of the Flies , a novel by William Golding, tries to

express. Through analyzing the character of Jack you can see how the savagery takes him

over little by little as he develops mentally, physically, and emotionally throughout the

Jack declined more than developed mentally throughout the book. " 'I ought to be

chief,' said Jack with simple arrogance, 'because I'm chapter chorister and head boy. I

can sing a C sharp'" ( pg. 21 ). Jack was a normal young boy, mayb

Shorts, shirts, and different garments they carried in their hands; but each boy

in a situation like that. Some might say that Jack was only human, and he might be. But

transformed into a painted naked savage. In one point of the book Ralph comments about

"The creature was a party of boys, dressed in strangely eccentric clothing.

whole. The way Jack declined as a person is showing how people change when they are

the evil, the evil that is in us all.

blood spouted over his hands. The sow collapsed under them and they were heavy and

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Jacks passions changed quite drastically. He started out by wanting power, to be

how he can not even remember what Jack looks like. How does one go from a

chief. Then his passion moved to killing a pig. Once he had killed a pig all of his attention

Approximate Word count = 624
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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