In the last paragraph, Golding writes “...Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of men’s hearts...” Discuss how this relates to the events that happened in the book.
- At the beginning of the book, when the two boys Ralph and Piggy find the conch then they are full of hope. That the rescuers will come and rescue them, that they can all work together and hold off until that point. And for a while that works out, until there is a power struggle and the little boy’s get bored of the way things are going. The way that Ralph is saying that they need to do things, such as refill the water thing that they built. And redo the shelters because they only worked together for the first one, and the number of people willing to help kept depleting quickly until there was only two left working on the last one. As the story line progresses the boy’s fall apart, and the end when Jack turns on them. Making everyone betray them too, I believe that Ralph had a remembering of what had happened at the beginning. When there wasn’t darkness present in most of the children’s souls. “ Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of men’s hearts..”
Do you agree with the idea that evil is inherent in people, regardless of age? Discuss in relation to your own experiences as well as those in the book.-
- I personally believe that nobodies just plain evil. I believe that there are bad people in the world, and people that make bad choices and even psychotic ones, but not truly evil. When I think of the word evil, what comes to my mind is the old cartoons where they had the small red devils on peoples shoulders telling them the bad thing they should do, with the angel on the other telling them to do the right thing. Which to me, signifies an internal conflict between what a person wants to do, and what a person feels he/she should do. Evil to me is just a definition of someone who hasn’t made the right choices, but I don’t believe that a person is ever just truly evil.
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