Fire In Lord Of The Flies
People will go to extreme lengths to avoid the truth, William Golding shows this in his book Lord of the Flies, these boys invent this creature called the beastie to put their fear into instead of facing the truth, that they are the beasts. They also ignore how important the signal fire is if they are to be rescued from the island. They kill Simon when he has just figured out that the beast on the hill is a dead person. When they all go around to Jack’s side and turn into savages to avoid responsibility on the island.
To start, all of the littluns are having nightmares of a beastie, when one of the littluns tells the group about this all of the rest go with that answer not because it is the most likely, but because it was the first one that …show more content…
Barely any of the children seem to care, they prefer hunting and lazing in the lagoon. “Cant they understand? Without the smoke signal we’ll die here? Look at that. We can't keep a fire going. And they don’t care(139).” The boys have no idea how important the signal fire is even when Ralph tells them, they can't seem to grasp the concept that they could get off of the island much easier. They ignore the truth to go for hard, almost impossible attempts. He also uses their childishness to change the direction of the story. Ralph and Jack reach a turning point when they get into a fight. “You and your blood, Jack Merridew! You and your hunting! We might have gone home…. But you can’t even build huts-then you go off hunting and let out the fire(70-71).” The boys give up the sad reality that is merely tending to the signal fire and hoping they get saved, to going into a make-believe universe where they can play at being hunters and put on war paint and escape the reality of their situation. And none of the boys want to go back to just tending the signal fire, even when a ship comes by and if they had been at the signal fire they may have been able to be saved. The author uses the hypothetical that maybe they would have been rescued if only they had kept up the signal fire as a basis for Ralph to be mad and for the void between Ralph and Jack start to grow. He also uses the motif of the ship to bring all the boys back around from the make-believe of hunting to the real world that they so do not want to
To start, all of the littluns are having nightmares of a beastie, when one of the littluns tells the group about this all of the rest go with that answer not because it is the most likely, but because it was the first one that …show more content…
Barely any of the children seem to care, they prefer hunting and lazing in the lagoon. “Cant they understand? Without the smoke signal we’ll die here? Look at that. We can't keep a fire going. And they don’t care(139).” The boys have no idea how important the signal fire is even when Ralph tells them, they can't seem to grasp the concept that they could get off of the island much easier. They ignore the truth to go for hard, almost impossible attempts. He also uses their childishness to change the direction of the story. Ralph and Jack reach a turning point when they get into a fight. “You and your blood, Jack Merridew! You and your hunting! We might have gone home…. But you can’t even build huts-then you go off hunting and let out the fire(70-71).” The boys give up the sad reality that is merely tending to the signal fire and hoping they get saved, to going into a make-believe universe where they can play at being hunters and put on war paint and escape the reality of their situation. And none of the boys want to go back to just tending the signal fire, even when a ship comes by and if they had been at the signal fire they may have been able to be saved. The author uses the hypothetical that maybe they would have been rescued if only they had kept up the signal fire as a basis for Ralph to be mad and for the void between Ralph and Jack start to grow. He also uses the motif of the ship to bring all the boys back around from the make-believe of hunting to the real world that they so do not want to