Survival In Yann Martel's Lord Of The Flies

Survival is a natural characteristic lying within every living creature on Earth. It may seem that animals have more adaptive survival techniques than humans. That could be reasoned by the fact that animals are constantly preying or being preyed on depending on their role on the food chain. Humans use their survivals techniques in different ways. We never truly know our real survival skills until faced with a daunting situation. We have learned to be domesticated by society and how we believe a person is supposed to act. Examples of believable situation like this could be being attacked by some type of an animal, being involved in a home invasion, or even something so simple as not knowing where your next meal is going to come from, all very
After using the island as temporary vacation, soon learned that the island was not just any other island; it was a carnivorous island. By day everything appeared to be ordinary but by night the island turned into an acidic beast devouring the dead fish trapped in the ponds and turning algae into acidic predators. Pi reached a conclusion stating, “I prefered to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island” (283). This is similar but vastly different to the physical features and importance of the island in Lord of the Flies. Unlike Pi, the young british boys had no other option but to take their chances of survival on the island rather than making a raft and setting off in search of rescue. The physical makeup of the british boys island was the more typical stereotype of an island containing a dense forest on one side and steep jagged rocks at the base of a hilltop on the other. Instead of opens plains teeming with hundreds of thousands of meerkats, this island overflowed with thick brush where wild pigs flourished. Both the meerkats and the wild pigs served as key source of food for the different characters. What makes these islands similar is the fact that british boys believed within the island too lived a “beast”. At first, the beast was nothing more than a product of the boys' imaginations. The smaller boys were afraid of things they saw at night. Instead of be afraid of nothing, they gave their fear a name, the Great Unknown, and a fantasized about it in their minds. The beast was claimed to have been seen by the twins who described the beast as having “teeth” and “eyes”. This unconfirmed beast creates a huge center of conflict within the group of boys. It puts the boys in an increased state of chaos and