In the beginning of the Lord of The Flies, it would have been very unexpected for Jack to quickly become someone so savage, as he couldn’t even manage to kill a piglet while hunting. This anger causes him to feel as if he needs to redeem himself, as he feels angry about not being the leader and wants to prove himself by being a hunter within their group. In the case of the Columbine shooting, the two teens started to show their anger by developing interests such as Nazism and white supremacy. Their idolization of Adolf Hitler was clear as they had planned their attack to be on the 110th anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s birth. Since these interests developed a few months before the shootings, it shows the gradual progression of anger overpowering them. Again, these two cases show Golding’s message about how powerful, emotions, such as anger, can be and how they can cause a character
In the beginning of the Lord of The Flies, it would have been very unexpected for Jack to quickly become someone so savage, as he couldn’t even manage to kill a piglet while hunting. This anger causes him to feel as if he needs to redeem himself, as he feels angry about not being the leader and wants to prove himself by being a hunter within their group. In the case of the Columbine shooting, the two teens started to show their anger by developing interests such as Nazism and white supremacy. Their idolization of Adolf Hitler was clear as they had planned their attack to be on the 110th anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s birth. Since these interests developed a few months before the shootings, it shows the gradual progression of anger overpowering them. Again, these two cases show Golding’s message about how powerful, emotions, such as anger, can be and how they can cause a character