one main event is Simon dying that is a very tragic event the way how they all think he’s the beast and they all beat him up and do a dance at the end to celebrate hes death.
The fire is also a sad event when they tried to burn Ralph and cause a massive fire and every thing turns mad.”we must make a fire.”
The first meeting is held a they boys specify what is needed for them to survive on the island. “Conch that’s what it’s called”
when the boys talk about the beast for the first time and they get scared. “Beastie”
jack and his tribe kill a pig and place her decapitated head on a wooden stake. “We’ll kill a pig and give a feast.”
the face paint
the face paint is a small event in the book that happend at the end of the book when jacks tribe leave and disband Ralphs tribe. and they also went to castle rock to create the face paint the face paint represents a gang or something to hide from they also change when wearing the mask.
piggys death
One of the main events in the story of the flies is when piggy dies of the rock when Ralph and jack fight after jack starts to wear face paint. this is also when we realize what the face paint actually means. The face paint actually represents their group or their tribe as they call it. The face makes them feel that they can be someone absolutely different from who they are. when they wear their face paint they turn into savages and are bloodthirsty.This is in chapter twelve cry of the hunters.The way i know this is from the quote “piggy and Simon lay over the island like vapour ” This is saying that they may be dead but they are still with them as in their soul is still with them on the island as you as the reader is told not to forget these characters as they may come up further on in the story.One of the characters that stood out to me that mostly influences the power dynamics in the group in the lord of the flies was jack he was to rude and felt that he needed to corrupt the group to violence and because of he is so disruptive and before all of this corruption was two groups that wanted to do two different things as Ralph wanted to make a fire and jack wanted to mess around as he didn’t care if he went home or not as he liked his new life on the island he could do what ever what he liked and this affected everyone on the island as then they wanted to take the stronger side which was jacks side even though he was in the wrong they felt the need to join him as the little kids stay with Ralph. Jack also was the cause of two deaths one was piggy and the other one was Simon because he told everyone to attack apparently the beast but it actually was Simon and this is my proof of how jack influenced the power dynamics of the group.
May 27, 2016 at 10:51 am
Excellent understanding of the text Billy. You’ve shown that you have grasped the development of the power dynamics within the group.
However in order to achieve the This is Novel! Badge we need to improve certain areas:
1) avoid relating to me events that happened in the story. Keep your focus on the evidence and what it suggests about the power dynamics.
2) try and identify the techniques that golding uses in order to illustrate the power struggle between Ralph and Jack.
I look forward to seeing the next draft.