Throughout the entire novel death seems to plague the group of boys as they aim to survive in the woods. As the novel begins to progress however, the boys deaths become more cruel and harsh. Society seems to build around them but as it does it's molding around the idea that being cruel to others is okay. The contch becomes like a crown and who ever controls it is in charge. Both the cruel and fair leader, Sam and George want it which begins a battle that can't be won.
Cruelty can bring out horrible things in a person whether they are comitting it or are the victim. The hunters found that they enjoyed the feeling of hurting others. In a way the group became like pirates they would attack the group down by the beach and try to steal their treasure (the contch). All the social standerds left them being naked and painted, clean, and well-mannered went out the window. The first kill, a pig was what made them believe that this was okay murder was a good thing. With that in mind the victims began to feel very isolated and afraid. The hunter's cruelty began to make them question if what they were doing was right if they should leave their sense of self and fight back. Breaking points happen and when a person is pushed for far to long they begin to change. ... was aiming to show the world with this novel the bullying and non-stop harassment much of what was being portrayed in the book with always bring the bad in a person. Piggy the right hand man to George suvered the most out of anybody. At the end the relentless teasing and pushing about his weight got the best of him. He said the wrong thing at the wrong time resulting in his cruel death. But death wouldn't be the right word as much as murder would be.
A social standard of cruelty comes with many ways of afflection on how the theme portrays it and the way the characters are effected.
My Reflection; I would give myself a three in my open question essay. My analysis was not clear nor was it organized in a way that the reader could understand the points I was trying to make. My writing is very choppy and lacks a sense of formatting, my points are spread all over and don't stick to one topic but rather jumps idea to idea and back. My support was very limited as I had no textual references to help clearly identify how cruelty was being shown in this particular piece of writing. I would like to see my writing become more precise and be able to clearly analysis a piece by the time we have to write another essay. My essays have become stronger over the last week or so but they still need a ton of improvement and that is why I believe I had a low three.
Reflection on Ashley; I would have to agree with Ashely's reflection on herself and give her essay a 5. She responds to the prompt yet sticks the summarizing the plot and adding things here and there bringing it back to what the prompt is asking. This is creating a very superficial feel to the essay as a whole. She is able to bring some support to help back her up throughout the text but it is very bland making it seem very simple. She had very few if any grammatical errors and was able to still make it so the prompt was effectively answered. She should just work on making it less of a summary and continue with her analysis well also bring a little more support to the table. Overall I believe Ashley did an amazing job for writing her first open question prompt in this class and should keep up the good work!
Revision:
Lord of the Flies by William Golding contains a story of cruelty based around the way it affects boys who have yet to fully mature and understand right from wrong. The sense of cruelty creates an eire as well as a feeling of being unsafe throughout the whole piece. Its turned into a major social factor for the young group of boys as they begin to split off into separate groups.
Throughout the entire novel death seems to plague the group of boys as they aim to survive in the woods. As the novel begins to progress however, the boys deaths become more cruel and harsh. Society seems to build around them but as it does it's molding around the idea that being cruel to others is an everyday social norm. The conch becomes like a crown and whoever controls it is in charge the remaining boys. Both the cruel and fair leader, Jack and Ralph want it which begins a battle that can't be won.
Cruelty can bring out horrible things in a person whether they are committing it or are the victim. The hunters found that they enjoyed the feeling of hurting others. In a way the group became like pirates they would attack the group down by the beach and try to steal their treasure (the conch). All the social standards left them being naked and painted was the new cool norm well being clean and well-mannered went out the window. The first kill, a pig was what made them believe that this was okay, creating the idea in the young boys minds that spilling a person or things blood was the right thing to do. With that in mind the victims of the Hunter’s terror began to feel very isolated and afraid. The hunter's cruelty began to make the group question if sticking to what they believed was the right thing to or to become more like them. Breaking points happen and when a person is pushed for far too long they begin to change. Williams was aiming to show the world with this novel the bullying and non-stop harassment much of what was being portrayed in the book with always bring the bad in a person. Piggy the right hand man to Ralph suffered the most out of anybody. At the end the relentless teasing and pushing about his weight got the best of him. He said the wrong thing at the wrong time resulting in his cruel death. But death wouldn't be the right word as much as murder would be. The more bloodshed the easier and funnier it became for the hunting group making it something that they wanted to do everyday. It wasn’t just what Piggy said but the fact that the power from being cruel to others had brainwashed them into thinking killing was okay essentially changing the way they looked at human nature.
A social standard of cruelty comes with many ways of affliction on how the theme portrays it and the way the characters are affected.
