Responsibility In Lord Of The Flies

Responsibility In today's society, human beings must learn to take care of something or someone,and that is a responsibility that they must uphold. In both the Lord of the Flies, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the responsibility of the boys is to manage by themselves without any adults to take care of them. The events in William Golding's book Lord of the Flies can be easily compared to those of Mark Twain's book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, because the main characters both have major responsibilities. There are two responsibilities that the characters came in contact with, taking care of people,including themselves, and being responsible enough to do the right thing. Thus, responsibility helps individuals to evolve and
For team work is a very important element if you want something to get done. The boys on the island, in Lord of the Flies, work together to get things accomplished. Some of these things include making shelters, building and keeping a fire going, and creating speared weapons. Each boy has a responsibility to take on, and if they do not fulfill it, they might end up on the island forever. The boys are placed in different groups to get the different jobs done. An example of a group established from the beginning is the "hunters", who arrived on the island as choir boys. "The choir belongs to you, of course.' ‘They could be the army -' ‘Or hunters -'" (Golding 19) The jobs that had to be completed were finished a lot quicker because of the different groups. It was each group's responsibility to accomplish their tasks. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck and Jim must also work together and take care of each other as they travel down the river. Huck, especially, must take special care of Jim, because he is a runaway black man who is in grave danger. The reason he is in so much danger, is because in the 1800s most niggers were slaves, and town folk could make money off of them by selling them, if they got their hands on them. Huck always made sure that Jim was hidden whenever Huck had to leave the raft, because he felt it was his responsibility to make sure Jim was never
This is why running away was the right thing for Huck to do. Ralph, Piggy, and Huck all had moral responsibilities to uphold, and they all listened to what their consciences were saying. They stuck to their instincts, and turned out to be better men because of it. Ralph knew from the start that Jack's intents were not good, while Piggy knew that Ralph would be a better leader, without any help from Jack. Huck trusted his instincts and told Miss. Mary everything that was going on in her household, and he saved the day thanks to his morals. He also knew it was time to move on from his old life, and start a new one, that did not involve him getting beaten on. Therefore, even though these boys were quite young when they went through these situations, it shows that moral responsibilities are learned,and put to use at an early age. All of the characters went through a lot in their books, but they learned even more about life by doing so. They evolved and matured because of all the responsibilities that they took on. In the Lord of the Flies, the characters had lots of