Lord Of The Flies: Opportunity

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envelop themselves in pleasure and play than in the stresses of work. The boys show enmity towards building the shelters, even though this work is important, to engage in trivial activities. After one of the shelters collapses while only Simon and Ralph are building it, Ralph clamors, "All day I've been working with Simon. No one else. They're off bathing or eating, or playing." (55). Ralph and Simon, though only children, are more mature and stray to work on the shelters, while the other children aimlessly run off and play. The other boys avidly choose to play, eat, etc.... than to continue to work with Ralph which to them is very boring and uninteresting. The boys act typically of most children their age by being more interested in engaging in enjoyable activities than working and doing necessary work. Secondly, all the boys leave Ralph's hard-working group to join Jack's group who just want to have fun. The day after the death of Simon when Piggy and Ralph are bathing, ...

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he had blown the conch. The fact that there are no adults has caused the boys to be attracted to Ralph as a leader. The physical characteristics of Ralph remind the boys of their parents or other adult authority figures they may have had in their old lives back home. There is also the conch that Ralph holds which may remind the boys of a school bell or a teacher's whistle. Finally, at the end of the novel, the boys turn to Jack to satisfy their need for some much-needed leadership. When the boys are feasting on the meat of a freshly killed sow, the narrator says: Jack spoke 'Give me a drink.' Henry brought him a shell and he drank. Power lay in the blown swell of his forearms; ...

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