theme essay

• “they could be my army-or hunters“

  • ralph and jack work well together at the beginning
  • jack takes on name hunters
  • shows what jack later becomes
  • boys start civilised
• “what are we?humans? or animals?or savages? what’s grown-ups going to think“

  • ralph not calling meeting
  • piggy declaring dominance while Ralph slacks off
  • piggy-sane voice amongst boys
  • reminds ralph of responsibility and obligation to boys
  • grown-ups remind ralph of laws/rules/society
  • rhetorical questions to make point
• “Ralph too was fighting to get near to get hold of that brown, vulnerable flesh, the desire to hunt and kill was over mastering”

  • ralph ‘leader of group’ becoming less civilised
  • readers wouldn’t expect it from him
  • takes play fighting too far ; wants to hurt Robert
  • children inherently evil-not because of rules, society, laws
• “what are we?humans?or animals? or savages? what’s grown ups going to think”

  • ralph not calling meeting
  • piggy declaring dominance while ralph slacks off
  • piggy is the sane voice amongst boys
  • reminds ralph of responsibility’s and obligation to boys
  • grown ups-remind ralph of laws/rules/society
  • rhetorical question-make point
• “ralph counted,i’m chief“

  • news to appoint a leader
  • overwhelming arrival to the island
  • boys later go their separate ways
• “kill the beast! cut his throat! spill his blood“

  • boys become less civilised
  • dangerous foreshadowing-simon’s death
  • rather than good-ritualistic connotation
  • binds boys together with bonds of blood and common endeavour
• “Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of a true wise friend called piggy”

  • end of book when boys are rescued
  • boys were after ralph to kill him
  • were children turned savages
  • navel officer looking for lost soldiers find boys