Lord of the flies

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Lord of the flies, The Development of the main character.

I have read the book Lord of the flies by William Golding. The story is about a big group of young boys that is evacuated from an atomic explosion and put into an aircraft. When they are flying over the tropical seas, the aircraft is attacked and the passenger tube that the boys are sitting in is released from the plane and crash-lands on an uninhabited island. There is not any adults surviving, and the boys have to manage on their own.
The main character of the book is Ralph, and the first one he meets on the Island is a boy with the nickname Piggy. Together they find a shell that is going to be an important item on the island. By blowing in the shell Ralph is calling all the boys on the island together, and that way he is the first one to take control over the situation. There is a cathedral school choir on the island, and the chapter chorister Jack is very eager to take the leader position of the whole group, but Ralph is voted to be the chief because of the shell that they call the conch.
When Ralph arrives at the island, he behaves like an ordinary boy. He is nice and a little bit insecure and he thinks good of the other boys. It is clear that he is well-liked among the others, and he becomes a good friend to Piggy, even tough he makes fun of him sometimes, and also to Jack. Over all there is a friendly atmosphere, and the boys are taking pleasure in . Ralph is respected by the group for his cunning, but Piggy is really the one with the intellect and he helps Ralph a lot. Ralph is handling his responsibility well. He is making up rules to follow, he is calming the others when they are afraid and he gives them hope by reminding them about all the fun and the beautiful things on the island. But the most important thing to Ralph is to make a fire and keep it going all the time so that ships passing by can see the smoke signal. Otherwise, Ralph says, they will never be rescued. That is the most reasonable thing to focus on, and at first everybody agrees with that. For making fire they use Piggy’s spectacles. The choir takes the commission of hunting pigs to eat and guarding the fire and everything works out fine.
But the calm and sensible conditions are changing one day when the choir have let the fire out when they was hunting. The group is split in to, one group with Jack as leader, hunting in the woods, and one staying with Ralph and piggy at the beach. The hunters are turning more and more into savages and a kind of war is breaking out. During one of the wild ritual dances that Jack has invented, the situation gets out of control and one of the boys gets killed. The boys are convincing themselves that it was all an accident, but Ralph feels that there is something really wrong and he is getting more and more scared about what is happening to the other children, especially Jack. Ralph is many times tempt to do as Jack’s company and give in to the excitement of hunting and wild playing, but he is keeping his sense and he does as good as he can to keep the fire going and the small group calm. The situation is getting even worse when Jack puts their fire out and steals Piggy’s spectacles. Ralph wants to keep out of problem, he is scared about what Jack is going to do next, but Piggy wants to do something abut it and he persuades Ralph to go with him and take up the fight against Jack. Ralph tries to talk sense into the hunters, but they are totally changed in personality and will not listen. Piggy is purposely killed by a hunter, and then the story turns into a total disaster. The few boys that still are on Ralph side are threatened to join Jack’s tribe. Ralph is now totally alone, and Jack has grew a terrible hate against Ralph among his hunters. They are setting up to hunt their enemy down and kill him. Of coarse Ralph feels total panic when he is hiding and running from the blood thirsty savages. After a long time of hunting the hunters set the whole island on fire in madness. Poor Ralph is running in desperation and thinks to himself: “the fools, the fools, what will they eat tomorrow?” When he feels that the end is near he comes out on the beach and there is his rescue: an officer arrived with a ship. When the panic and extreme terror came loose he is, for the f...

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