How are good people able to do bad things? Or how are young proper British boys able to commit murder? In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, a group of British boys' planes crash on an empty island. At first there is leadership and organization, but it quickly falls apart and the boys become angry and hopeless that they will never be rescued. They start to grow brutal and turn against each other. In Chile Miners: Rescued foreman Luis Urzuas first interview, Urzua explains his time spent in the chaotic scene as the leader. During this experience, there were thirty three men trapped seven hundred meters below the Atacama desert for seventy days trying to remain together in a democracy but all had fear of death and cannibalism. This is all to be expected, …show more content…
The tribe lay in a semicircle before him. The newly beaten and untied Wilfred was sniffling noisily in the background. (160) This shows how seriously Jack is taking his job as the leader of the tribe and shows how he will be willing to do anything to get what he wants. Jack painted and in no clothes displays how animalistic he has become by causing harm to those around him. Ralph understood what the paint meant to Jack's mindset. The paint meant that Jack had fully adapted into a savage, inhumane being and was not afraid of remorse or guilt. Golding describes Ralph's realization as, "They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought." (172) This shows how savagery has now transformed into the typical behavior being shown in the boys on the island. Being trapped in this hopeless situation has made the violence understandable and expected. This is similar to the violent outbreaks that happened during the Chile miner
700 meters underground; five kilometers from the entrance. It is not surprising that the public thought that the miners would not have survived the collapse or starve to death. Thou it sounds like there is no escape, the miners survived underground for a record of sixty nine days. The mine that collapse had a history of instability that had caused previous accidents, including death. Chile has a long tradition of mining, during the 20th century they made it as the world top producer of copper. According