Evil In Lord Of The Flies

On November 13, 2015, over 100 tragic deaths in Paris did not occur on their own. It was planned by the evil and hatred mindset of humans. The three books, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, and Night by Elie Wiesel, all portray the good and evil elements of human nature. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, the main character Junior (also known as Arnold) deals with hard times while living on an Indian Reservation. In the novel Lord of the Flies, a plane crashes with a group of boys who try and learn to survive on an island until they are rescued. Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, describes his story as a survivor of the Holocaust. Although human tendencies …show more content…
In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, Junior leaves the reservation to get a better education. However, his community misinterprets his decision to leave as betrayal, and turning his back on the reservation. Sherman Alexie states, “About ten o’clock, as I was walking home, three guys jumped me. I couldn’t tell who they were. They all wore frankenstein masks. And they shoved me to the ground and kicked me a few times. And spit on me. I could handle the kicks…. They didn't beat me up too bad. I could tell they didn’t want to put me in the hospital or anything. Mostly they wanted to remind me that I was a traitor. And they wanted to steal my candy and the money” (Alexie 79). In Lord of the Flies, a group of boys are stranded on an island after a plane crash.They are trying to survive in hopes to be rescued. Ralph has been the leader of the group. According to Jack, Ralph is only good for giving orders and expects the boys to always do what he says. He says he’s not a hunter and therefore he is not a proper chief. Jack decides to betray Ralph and form a group of hunters on his own. During a killing ritual, they think they see the beast whom they’ve all feared since their days on the island. This resulted to violence and they end up mistakenly killing Simon. The book Night says,“ The beast struggled forward, broke the ring and fell over the steep edge of the rock, leapt down on to the beast, …show more content…
In the book Night, the author Elie Wiesel writes about his journey and surviving the Nazi concentration camps as a teenager. The environment in the concentration camps were violent. Elie and his father are on a train moving to another location. They are fighting over crusts of bread and some are even willing to kill for it. “ He was holding one hand to his heart. At first I thought he had received a blow to his chest. Then I understood: he was hiding a piece of bread under his shirt. With lightning speed he pulled it out and put it in to his mouth. His eyes lit up, a smile, like a grimace illuminated his ashen face…’Meir my little Meir! Don’t you recognize me….. your killing your father...I have bread...for you too...for you too…’ “ he collapsed. But his fist was still clutching a small crust…. The old man mumbled something, groaned, and died. Nobody cared. His son searched him, took the crust of bread and began to devour it. Two men have been watching him. They jumped him. Others joined in. When they withdrew, there were two dead bodies next to me, the father and the son” (Wiesel 101-102). The prisoners are freezing, starving and dying. In order to survive, they are willing to steal food with violence and eventually murder. We can say that harsh conditions and desperation can you b`ring out the evil in

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What Is The Evil In Lord Of The Flies