Lost Boys: The Tribe

In the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding describes the dramatic change of a group of young boys as they survive on an inhabited island in the middle of the ocean. At the beginning, a small basic society is developed where a leader, Ralph, is elected and rules were established to keep the young and old in line. The longer the children stayed alone, the more distant they became from the modern rules of everyday society. Main characters started to change from their old innocent child self…

as a symbol to illustrate the deterioration of the boys and more specifically, their government. The conch symbolizes…

novel Lord of the Flies is about a group of British boys who are stranded on an island. After, they try to establish rules and order by making laws, including how the conch signals who can speak. They also appoint a chief, they build shelters, and “try” to keep a constant fire going for rescue. While stranded, there is a lot of fear that mainly causes the tribe to split. One tribe is savages and are very violent and lead to the death of two boys. At the end, they are rescued very ironically when…

He was the ideal religious and established young boy. Simon had his eyes focused on truth. Simon was different from the group. He was frail and typically weak, unless it came to rightness. He was one who stood up for Piggy. Simon decided to set out on a very courageous quest to determine what the beast actually was. Simon takes the journey and realizes what the beast really is, a man. Simon is wise enough to realize that the boys are not in their right mind and are not ready to accept the…

conch was with the boys on the island from the start. When they landed on the island, Piggy discovered the conch and Ralph used it to summon any other boys on the island. From holding the conch at the start, Ralph was decided as the “leader.” The rules were set for the conch from then on: whoever holds the conch has their time to speak. While the conch is power through order within chaos, the sow’s head was put on the island to create a sense of fear and result in power over the boys. The sow’s…

island with no adult supervision. The boys must now find a way to overcome obstacles to survive and govern themselves. A tragic flaw in human nature is that we are all burdened with a hidden beast within. This becomes relevant in the book when we see the effect the hidden beast has on the boys through violence, corruption, and ultimately the loss of innocence. The internal beasts consumes the boys though many instances of violence. One example is when the boys kill Simon for learning the…

many situations. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of young boys are stranded on an island and this fear that they have of their unknown environment establishes many problems. It is the only thing that blinds the boys from acting rationally at times, questioning certain circumstances, and it causes them to act out in many brutal ways. Golding uses fear to convey the ideas and imagery of young, civilised boys who quickly turn into violent, savage individuals and start to lose sight…

to what the boys decide to do. What the boys decide is based off on what they learned in society. The fire symbolizes many things, that are, the hope of being rescued, danger, the doubt of being rescued, adults, and death and destruction. At the beginning of the story, Golding has the boys first use the fire as a way of rescue “We can help them find us…we must make a fire” (Golding 38). The fire at this point in the story symbolizes rescue and is their rescue. The fire is the boys connection…

Ralph Ralph symbolizes leadership, guidance, and control over a society. In the beginning of the novel he is the one that organizes the meetings and calm the boys of the dangers. Even though there is another boy, Jack, that wants to be leader, most of them pick Ralph because he starts building shelter and finding ways to get off the island. To add, he was the one to calm everyone else down when rumors of a beast were spotted in the mountain. He led a team to the top of the mountain to see if…

Indeed, Africa did overall gain an increase in resources like guns, goods, and materials. However, they lost their most valuable resource: human resources. So many africans, especially those in their prime, were deported, that the amount of labor left in Africa was almost laughable. Many people, mostly men and young fit boys were taken captive to trade. The most fit Africans gave the most profitable revenue and as a result, the majority of slaves were the healthy…