For our novel studies our teacher has chosen for us, lord of the flies. This is an amazing book because so many of the characters and objects that are mentioned have a deep symbolism and the events that happened with them This is a dystopian novel about a group of boys who landed a crash on an island with no adults and plentiful resources. The children quickly find each other with the help of a conch. The conch is a representation of power and order for whoever holds the conch can speak as was disclosed later.
From there three main characters emerge. Piggy: a squat fat kid is bullied by the other children because of his glasses, asthma and his nickname: Piggy. However he is the most intelligent of all on the island and has great ideas most of the time. His glasses are also the only known way to light a fire which gives him some say between the other kids.
The leader of all of the children as voted by them is Ralph. He is calm and collected. He also found and blew the conch which allowed him to become the leader. He has childish humour and excitement but is weighed down by the responsibilities of a leader and tries to make reasonable decisions.
Jack is the leader of the former choir now hunters. He is arrogant and self centred. He believes he is the true leader but never explicitly mentions this fact. He is driven by the urge to kill a pig. He has almost no belief in escaping the island and instead seems to focus on short term goals that bring him pleasure like killing pigs. He also doesn’t seem to care about sustainability like building huts for them to sleep in.
Ralph represents order, Piggy intelligence and Jack represents savagery. I really enjoyed this book so far and I’m excited to analyse events that happen.