Lord of the Flies Journal Chapters Eleven and Twelve
Another LotF-based journal for sophomore year Comm class. This one's theme was the main theme of the book (in our opinion)… Got five of five on this one, too.
There were many themes in The Lord of the Flies, but the most prevalent of these dealt with the evil within men.
The division of the boys into two distinct groups, the arguments that arose, the killing of the pig, Simon and Piggy—all illustrate how terrible human beings can be to each other.
There is evil within us all, although some of us don't act on it in as brutal a way as the boys in the book did, but we all experience some form of evil in our lives. Whether it be a selfish thought, rude action, or anything else someone would consider "mean," we are all savages in some form or another, and need to learn to control that nature, as I believe Simon did, and Piggy and Ralph to an extent as well.
We have to harness it, as the boys did, and use it in a more productive, "unveil" manner, unlike the boys in Lord of the Flies…
Yeah. Just over 160 words. And now as I'm rereading this, I realize Golding (author, if you'd forgotten) was writing about the same thing Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker do—the evil within mankind. That's really cool…