Lord of the Flies

                         

                                                       Lord of the Flies           

                                                               By: William Golding 

       

 

    In the novel Lord of the flies, Jack contributes in both of the tragedies on the island. In every situation that occurs on the island, Jack is constantly agonizing to disarrange their character and mind set of the original leader. While Jack is continually being manipulative, he is gaining more followers. Meanwhile Ralph is losing.
   
    Jack could have easily prevented the deaths that occurred on the island. He could have prevented the death of Piggy by using his power in a positive way and by not allowing the followers to use violence. Jack has a lot of power over the whole island because the followers enjoy his ability of hunting. The followers do anything and believe anything Jack says. If Jack didn't continuously agonize the imagination of the beast, the death of Simon wouldn't have taken place.

    If I was in Jack's shoes, I would have let Ralph remain in authority because it would have prevented the deaths on the island. Ralph holds the most stability in civilization and has that adult figure. He is very mature and knows the procedures of survival. Unlike Jack, Ralph doesn't only think about hunting and having fun without parents but he thinks about the true personal needs and survival equipment. Having Jack in authority just caused complete disaster and savagery, which is why having Ralph as leader would prevent the deaths.

  By: Tianna Guy
     

Lord of the Flies

                                                    Lord of the Flies
                              By: William Golding  

                                                                                                                                        

                                                     
                                                                Person vs. Person conflict



   One experience in my life where i was faced with a person vs. person conflict, was back in elementary school. In grade six, we celebrated our annual science fair. Divided into groups of four, we were each given the task to choose one person to represent the leader of the group. Out of the whole group of four, only one young girl and myself had the interest of being the leader. Her mind was set for being the leader and she wasn't going to step down, little did she know, i wanted it just as bad. In elementary school, this was very important to us. It was because our family and friends were going to be there and we both dedicated so much time and effort into our science project.
   The steps that we took to resolve this conflict was no help. We started to argue and it didn't get anywhere but contribute chaos. Finally, we sat down and came to the decisions of  equally  sharing the role as the leader, since we did both put the same amount of hard work. Coming to that conclusion, the arguing went away and all the chaos disappeared as well.
   Other things we could have done to prevent the conflict, was had a group vote like what the boys did on the island to Ralph and Jack, in the book Lord of the Flies. It not only  held order, and good communication, but it also prevent the chaos.
    Allowing this conflict to escalate, could have affected everyone in our group. It could of also risked our performance at the science fair because good communication is what is truly needed.

Thursday, April 12, 2012
By: Tianna Guy

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies by William Golding 

Monday, April 2, 2012
By: Tianna Guy

         
       William Golding, who was born in 1911, is the author of the successful novel Lord of the Flies. William is educated at Marlborough Grammar School and is an Oxford graduate. Growing up, his father had high expectations of him becoming a scientist but he revolted and became a writer. This pushed him into writing so many admirable novels. When World war II embarked, William Golding became a lieutenant in the British Navy during the 1940's and was present on the french invasion of Normandy on D-Day. After the War took place, William went back to writing and teaching. Lord of the flies, being his first novel  became very successful in 1954 when it was published.

                                           
                                                                            

         Living in William Golding's time must of been really hard because of the Holocaust and all the war that was happening then. It must have left him with so much pain and sorrow from having to witness people being killed and a lot of  emptiness and loneliness surrounding him. Having his father pressuring him into something he has no interest in being also could of put problems into his time growing up. All these hard times and neglect growing up is one of the main reasons why i  believe William Golding wrote the novel. Participating in war had made him stronger and allowed him to put all his experience of a rough childhood into his wonderful poems and novels such as the Lord of the Flies.