Beastie Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

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The book Lord of the Flies was written by an English novelist, playwright, and poet, William Golding. The topic ¨The Beastie¨ really reflects how a little imaginary thing can change a person for a period of time. The Beastie is one of many symbols in the novel, which represents their savagery until Simon had realized it symbolized in each of them.
In the beginning of the novel, all of the boys were confident but still resistant that they could be able to beat the beast and kill it when they had found it. Later on, Jack says, ¨The thing is fear can’t hurt you anymore than a dream. There aren’t any beasts to be afraid of on this island.” Jack and his hunters were more confident to know that their might be no beast on the island after all. Although they were confident with their conclusion of the beast the littluns were especially still conscious about it. Later on, Simon was foreshadowing what was going to happen wich changed the boys on the island. Afterward, Simon says, ¨Unless we get frightened by people¨. When you look back at this quote it has a significance to it that explains how the others feel …show more content…
Later in chapter 8, Jack says, ¨ The beast is hunter.¨ Basically, what he was trying to do was get the boys main focus on killing and hunting the pig and beast rather than starting a fire. Jack then, later on, has a song which they usually sing when they hunt; ¨ Kill the pig, cut her throat … drink her blood.¨ A few chapters before that Ralph says, ¨What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages” What’s grownups going to think? Going off-hunting pigs-letting fires out and now !.¨ Ralph was obviously not okay with Jackś behavior and how he wasn't acting right. When the boys became savages their personality changes, heart, and caring for others wasn´t a thing anymore. Jack and Ralph had two different sides on how to
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