Stiefel-Lord-of-The-Flies

Stiefel's Domain Mike Stiefel

The boy behave the way they do because of the isolation they face on the island from their parents, forcing them to mature mentally at different rates. In the beginning of the book, all the kids that were stranded, just wanted to be rescued and be back with their parents. However, as the story continues, the true emotions and thoughts of the kids unfold and begin to develop into things of chaos. Jack, still bitter from Ralph becoming leader, struggles to gain power by manipulating the others to believe in him, slowly but surely suppressing Ralph's authority over everyone. Jack is also becoming blood-thirsty, feeling nothing but the craving of the hunt, and he is making others like himself, even Ralph is beginning to urge to kill. Slowly the kids are becoming savages, and only Simon, Piggy, and the littleuns have been able to brush off the changes, either by being naive or just pure will. I do believe though, if this does increase, the kids who want to hunt will envitably have the urge to kill not just animals but people, and soon they may begin to take another's life.

The book so far, can relate to the movie, "Doomsday". In the movie, "Doomsday" an area is quarantined and the once gentle and timid residents, soon become ruthless and savage. The book and this movie relate in many ways, an obvious one being that the transformation of the peaceful state of mind to one of a destruction one. Both the children and the residents at first were not looking to cause harm, they were kind, and just wanted to live life (for the residents) and to get home (the children). However, after time, this benevolent nature quickly faded and corrupted itself into blood craving masses where violence and death had become prominent. Another connection is that the quarantined area just wanted to get out into the free world again, and the children just wanted to get home. The sense of wanting freedom, the sense of feeling alone, is very evident within the characters of the movie and the book.

My question from the book is: With the rapid change of the children's mood, will they continue to descend into this madness of wanting to kill? Or will some try to seek redemption from what they have been doing and try to get the others to stray away from this "evil force" that's making them want to be what they are becoming?

My prediction for the book is: I do not believe that any of the kids will change, but instead, continue to become more savage. Jack is brinking the edge of insanity and I think that Ralph is starting to taste that feeling too. In chapter seven, Shadows and Tall Trees, the kids pick on robert and pretend to make him a pig but the event takes out of hand and escalades to something violent. Ralph begins to actually poke Robert agressively, as if he were a pig, and Jack begins to brandish his knife, as if he was ready to go for the kill. This continued to the point where Robert was crying, but the crowd was so overwhelmed with the moment, the adrenaline rushing, that no one could think normally and to realize that what they were doing was wrong. This is not a good characteristic, the violent nature, the group following nature, where everyone acts as the group and cannot think for themselves. I believe that those characteristics will be the cause of human deaths, in the book.