Lord of the Flies Blog

Prompt 1: “Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death”

                I agree with this statement 100 percent. The more society grows the more people are going to butt heads and not agree with each other. Having a president doesn’t always help. There is always going to be someone who is out of the loop. There is always going to be that one person who has bad thoughts about doing stuff. This is why there have been so many things that happen in the United States and all over the world. These such bad things would be known to be: school shootings, terrorist attacks, serial killers, and many more things. They way society forms a person makes me wonder what it would be like if everyone in the entire world would live in a giant bubble and had to follow very strict rules and wear uniforms and couldn’t do anything bad. It makes me wonder who would be the first person to crack because they can’t take it anymore. This is what people do now. They crack because they can’t handle society anymore and want to make a statement so they go out and shoot a school up. Doesn’t make sense but that is what society does. Yes, I agree with the statement at the top, society knows how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.

Prompt 2: “If we can’t separate our civilized self from our savage self which will take over and why?”

                I think that our savage self will eventually take over our civilized self. The only way it won’t is if you have a really good head sitting on your head like Ralph did in the book The Lord of the Flies. I believe that our savage self with takeover because we will eventually fall into temptation. Temptation when it comes to our personal self in my eyes is the root to all evil. Our savage self is going to take over fist because of temptation and because out savage self has taken over our minds are not going to think twice about what it tells our body to do. Because out savage self has taken over our minds are not going to think about our conscious we have when we think about doing things. This is why bad things happen is because our savage self takes over our civilized self.

Prompt 3: How is civilization created? Are people controlled by society or is society controlled by people?

                Civilization is created when man built shelters near rivers for water and somewhere close to food too. Civilization was created because man needed a place to settle, so they built shelters like I said in the previous sentence. I believe that people are controlled by society. People somewhere in time set in stone norms for society. Everyone just follows them and when someone goes against the norms they stick out like a sore thumb. For example the Florida school shooting that just took place last week. The ex-student of that school decided that he was going to shoot up the school he got expelled from. In school everyone follows rules and when you don’t follow them there is a punishment. His punishment was being expelled, because of this he shot up the school and killed 17 innocent people. He went against the norms of society resulting him to stick out like a sore thumb and his face all of social media. This kid shooting up that school resulted in a big uproar and I am sure that is what he wanted because his savage self-took over. He hadn’t been taking his pills like he was supposed to which resulted in his savage self to take over and his mind not to question what he was doing. Therefore, I believe that we are controlled by society and that it eventually makes people go crazy.

Questions:

1.       What is the LOTF talking about?

a.       Simon is the odd man out right now and that if he doesn’t start to fit into the norms he is going to end up dead.

2.       What has Simon been doing that makes the LOTF angry?

a.       Going against the other boys and staying to himself, not picking a side.

3.       Why Simon in particular?

a.       Because he is hallucinating and because he is very famished and is keeping to himself, stays away from everyone else.

4.       Why not any of the other boys?

a.       Because they are all fighting between the two groups and they all went against the norms of the society that Ralph had established.