Chapter 4 Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

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Getting power taken away without any worthy reason can be one of the worst things. It was the power you deserved to have but some other guy just takes it away from you because of something irrelevant. And you’re just sitting there, thinking, “Wasn’t I supposed to keep the power and not let that guy take it from me?” Getting what you had and what you deserved taken away from you and given to someone else doesn’t just happen to some people. In chapter 4 of The Lord of the Flies, Jack said, “With the conch, I’m calling a meeting even if we have to go on into the dark. Down on the platform. When I blow it. Now.” Originally, Ralph had the power of being leader of the boys. This is because he was one of the first ones in island and he was …show more content…
Ralph stood among the ashes of the signal fire, his hands full of meat, saying nothing.” Jack killed a wild pig earlier for the group of boys to eat. Since everyone was only eating fruits, nuts, and sometimes seafood, they were really happy when they finally some type of meat to eat. Since Jack was the one hunted the pig, all of the boys started to forget about Ralph and treat Jack with all of their respect and praise, like he was the leader of the whole group of boys. Since Ralph was hopeless about anything, Jack even took ahold of Ralph’s conch and blew into it, like it was …show more content…
That day, a group of boys around my age but a little bit older saw me play with the little boys. They came up to me and asked me why I was playing with them. I said that I was very close to them and they like to play with me. The group of boys started to criticize me by saying that I was being a very cruel and not really being a good leader to them. The next thing you know, they took the little group of boys from me and I was left alone. The little group of boys started to like them more than me and eventually hung out with them more. The group of boys later used the group of little boys against me in ways and the groups of boys I was once really close to is now in a group that was mean to me and criticized me. From there, I had nowhere to go and I was stuck in a point where I felt like I was in an endless pit with no way
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