Lord Of The Flies Chapter 7 Analysis

1."And you shut up! Who are you, anyway? Sitting there telling people what to do. You can't hunt, you can't sing—" "I'm chief. I was chosen."

Lord of the Flies In the novel Lord of the Flies, the main character Ralph is a static character because throughout the characters’ fight for survival, he remains calm and takes leadership. In the very beginning of the book, the narrator introduces Ralph as a survivor of a fatal plane crash that resulted in the deaths of a few schoolboys and the pilot. After he meets his new friend Piggy, Ralph listens to the schoolboys about their stressful situation: being stranded on an island with no adults and no idea if and how someone will find them.

Notes from the Island Day 1: Today I found myself in a strange place, an island I suppose. I think the plane I was riding plane crashed and that’s how I ended up here. At first I was afraid that I was alone until I met another boy. Now that I think about it, he never told me his name. I’ll just continue calling this boy “Piggy”.

This boy was only dreading his trip to his new private school 30,000 feet in the air before blacking out and finding himself stranded and alone in a deserted island. But within the short time span of five weeks, he’s innocence was taken from him. I am lucky to interview Ralph Bradshaw, age 12, after weeks of silence, of his deadly, horrifying experience in the stranded island he would call “Hell” itself. Many know the tale of the 47 boys mysteriously disappearing and found wild-like, but Ralph knows there was more to it. After befriending Stanley and Simon, (seen in Pg. 2) he was appointed leader by majority vote.

Soon enough, Ralph takes a moment to remember the deaths of his friends that he witnessed and the fact that he almost gets killed himself by Jack. Ralph is so traumatized to the point that “...[he] wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend of Piggy.” (p. 202) Ralph cries at the thought that he might never get his innocence back and the outcome of living with bloodthirsty people. Ralph grieves about the unending mark of evil in people’s hearts, an evil that he did not expect to come out before witnessing it on his friends.

Journal Topics for Independent Novel Individual entries (written in your copy of this document) are to be about 500 words in length. Place Journal Topics in your Turnin folder. Journal #1: Describe the characters in your novel. There are 7 main characters in the the Lord of The Flies.

Cassy’s superior intellect enables her to study Simon carefully revealing his fears and superstitions, weapons she used to defeat him. Cassy uses an attic in the old house to her advantage. This attic is believed to be haunted by a negro woman who was confined in it by Legree himself. She was out up there after being disobedient. The servants of Legree don’t know what happened exactly, but they do know that her body was taken down from it and buried.

Though all societies throughout history have had their differences, all have been almost identical structurally. Marxism views the world and literature based on social and economic classes. Karl Marx, a communist reformer, once said "...stable societies develop sites of resistance: contradictions built into the social system that ultimately lead to social revolution and the development of a new society upon the old,” meaning that conflict, tension, and rebellion cycle through societies and allow mankind to grow and develop socially as a whole. In the novel Lord of the Flies, the author, William Golding uses character interactions and symbolism to show struggle between classes as a new society rebels against and replaces the previous system.

The group of boys lack the healthy amount of personal hygiene as the book progresses, leading to skin crusted with dirt and soaked with sweat. This modifies their image and ideas on how a group of people would act and look. Towards the beginning of chapter seven, Ralph notices, while watching the other boys, that they are filthy. Ralph can see that the deprivation of a quality cleanse has been going on for quite some time, based on the amount of dirt on their bodies. “They were dirty, not with the spectacular dirt of boys who have fallen into mud…”

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies demonstrates how Ralph’s use of his id gradually overrides his use of his ego as time passes on the island due to the innate instincts in humans. Golding uses the fire, conch shell, and Ralph’s hair to show how Ralph transitions from primarily using his ego to using his id more often to finally having his id take precedent over his ego and superego. When the boys are first stranded on the island after the plane crashes, Ralph emerges as a leader for the boys, partially due to his strong display of his ego. After Jack, Ralph, and Simon have explored the island Ralph calls a meeting where he says “I’ll give the conch to the next person to speak,” exhibiting how the conch represents order(33). By saying that

Thesis Statement: In Lord of the Flies William Golding throughout the book is trying to show you that society should recognize man is evil. Introduction Paragraph: In the book Lord of the Flies the author William Golding shows a group of boys losing their innocence throughout their life stuck on this inhabited island in the pacific ocean. These boys go from being quiet and shy to violent and dangerous young little boys. Golding uses the pigs, hunting, and the boys face painting to show their lose of innocence throughout the story. There 's no rules of any sort on this island these boys landed on they are free to do whatever they want whenever they want.

Chapter 2 - Nice to Eat with You: Acts of Communion Choose a meal from a literary work and apply the ideas of Chapter 2 to this literary depiction Answer: Quentin Tarantino’s films are all known for having significant meal scenes, and Pulp Fiction is no exception. In Pulp Fiction, many memorable scenes involve food. Although, the meal scene that sticks out the most is the one between Mia Wallace, Marsellus’s wife, and Vincent Vega, Marsellus’s bodyguard. Even though the characters come from two different worlds they share something in common.

In the novel, Lord Of The Flies, by William Golding, Ralph’s caring and consoling character and Jack’s determination and self confidence both allowed them to confront challenges successfully. Ralph displayed the quality of kindness toward the others group members when they first arrived on the island. He understood all of the different inner emotions that the boys were experiencing and knew how they felt. Many of the children were worried whether they they would every come home again.

Being under a dictatorship can demolish any kind of sanity one has. Now Ralph has realized what power and manipulation can do to one person. He never intentionally plans on becoming a savage, and unfortunately, he misses his dignity. In response, Boyd comments, “It is rather the coming of an awareness of darkness, of the evil in man’s heart that was present in the children all along” (Boyd 27). His elaboration explains how the beast was not only in Ralph but in all of the young boys.

“They hate you, Ralph. They’re going to do you. They’re going to hunt you tomorrow.” (Golding, 170). After all the chaos from previous chapters of the novel, Ralph realizes that he’s completely isolated and lonely.