Lord of the Flies Intro
Essay by lilschubes1997 • December 13, 2012 • Essay • 290 Words (2 Pages) • 1,623 Views
Mankind's essential illness is within all humans' beings, from the day we're born to our death, and all you can do is try to suppress that "illness" within ourselves. The illness is humans' natural instincts to satisfy your own needs over other peoples needs. In the book Lord of the Flies, William Golding tries to show the reader the boys digression from preppy schoolboys to savage men, it is seen that most of the boys have started as innocent young boys and finished as real "beast" that they are ever so afraid of during the whole book. At the end of the book, Ralph finds the Naval officer before the boys were able to kill him. He begins to cry, he cries because his sudden realization of all the wrongdoings on the island, his loss of innocence, and his loss of his real friend Piggy. Mankind's essential illness is within all humans' beings, from the day we're born to our death, and all you can do is try to suppress that "illness" within ourselves. The illness is humans' natural instincts to satisfy your own needs over other peoples needs. In the book Lord of the Flies, William Golding tries to show the reader the boys digression from preppy schoolboys to savage men, it is seen that most of the boys have started as innocent young boys and finished as real "beast" that they are ever so afraid of during the whole book. At the end of the book, Ralph finds the Naval officer before the boys were able to kill him. He begins to cry, he cries because his sudden realization of all the wrongdoings on the island, his loss of innocence, and his loss of his real friend Piggy.
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