i have couple of questions on this book i really need answered, and quickly. if you know, or even ave an idea, please help.
1. how would the events of the novel be different if it was only girls on the island?
2.are the boys in fact responsible for the deaths on the island?
3. does the story end on an optimistic or pessimistic note?
please please please help!
1. Girls are generally more compliant and less bloodthirsty. On the other hand, girls "fight" with words and with exclusion and other more covert methods.
2. The first death--the boy with the mulberry birthmark--is an accident. The fire gets out of hand and the boys have not organized enough to know who's who. The second--Simon--is the mob. The boys are scared, it's storming, they're psyched into a frenzy by their dance, and suddenly a figure comes crawling out of the jungle. The third death--Piggy--is a deliberately malicious act by Roger, one individual. The final hunt would be a group malicious act if not for the rescue. We can see a progression from accident to mob to murder to savage hunt
3. The ending is pessimistic. The officer looks away from a crying Ralph to the trim cruiser. Consider where he is taking the boys: away from a little war . . . and into a big one. Just as the boys were hunting down an outsider (enemy), the sailors are hunting down enemies to kill them. It's just the adult version of the island--or rather, the island is the child's version of he adult world.
thank you sooooooooo much, it really helped. you give good answers. i can really build off these answers and interpret them in my own way , making them my own so it is not plagerism. they relaly helped me just understnad the questions
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