Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies, from the beginning, was a book of my taste. The novel was plotted in an island, main characters are young boys, and they were representetives of human being. However, as I read, I began to realize that the strory was more deep than I ever imagined. On the last chapters of the novel, the island becomes a chaotic place; Jack steals the specs from Piggy and Piggy gets murdered by Roger. Ralph, who escapes, soon faces the hunting of Jack and Roger. Unlike the previous chapters, Roger became significant to the boys; the twins quote, "You don't know Roger. He's a terror" (Golding 195). With the fact that Roger killed Piggy, it proves that Roger may have equivalent or higher degree of evilness than Jack. When Ralph is running from Jack, "They had smoked him out and set the island on fire" (Golding 202). Ironically, Ralph gets rescued by a naval officer who visited the island because he saw the smoke. Ralph quotes "And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy" (Golding 208). Ralph and other boys on the island lost their innocence and darkness too well to go back to childhood. I thought it was funny how Ralph called Piggy as a friend because even to the moment of Piggy being killed, Ralph didn't listen to Piggy.