Informative Essay On Lord Of The Flies

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I had an oddly simple life in Brookline, no not brooklyn, you heard me brookline. It was routinely easy day for me, from school to soccer to home and repeat. It wasn’t until middle school that my life would entirely change.
In middle school I made a great new group of friends. I only had one close friend who was a boy. His name was Max. He was kind of different than the other boys in my grade. He was quiet but, when you got to know him very goofy. He used to turn to me and say “Melissa, look how far I can stretch my skin I look like a turtle” and then he would stretch his skin as far as it would go. I have always been the type who has trouble connecting with books. When my 9th grade teacher placed The Lord of the Flies into my hands I thought that I knew what to expect. It was another boring book like A tale of two cities or …show more content…
Boys are not taught any responsibility for each other. Students aren’t given many leadership opportunities until much later in life which can lead to power hungry, tyrannical leaders like Jack. Learning to have just a small amount of responsibility would have steered the boys towards being decent leaders and kept rules and values from going out the window during their time on the island. The boys in Lord of the flies never bothered to write a list of names or count how many boys there were for the duration of their time on the island. Within the first day, the Littlun with the birthmark disappeared and there was little or no effort by the other boys to find him. The British boys were used to adults being in charge and looking after them and they simply chose to ignore the Littluns instead of taking on new responsibility. If something wasn't flashy or impressive than the boys did not care about it. The situation turns these once proper boys into a cult-like anarchy which could have been avoided if not for the way their culture shielded them from the dangers of the real
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