Lord Of The Flies: Savagery And Civilization

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For this essay I will be talking about civilization and savagery in the Lord of the Flies and how each is represented. Also about it effected the characters and what the author is trying to communicate to the reader through the theme. At the beginning of the book the boys acted more civilized then act at this point in the book. The boys are starting to lose a lot of what makes them civilized, and they are starting to act more like savages.
When the plane first crashed, Ralph and Piggy acted more civilized, mainly because they didn’t realized that they weren’t going to get rescued. When Ralph and Piggy called the rest of the boys to the beach, that’s when their civilization went down. Jack was a big reason on why a lot of boys started to go