Fear In Lord Of The Flies Persuasive Essay

The Fear of Not Surviving The feeling of adrenaline rushing through you body, as your palm start to sweat, causing you to make quick decisions based on how much you fear. That feeling you felt as a child as you were in the dark hiding under your covers. Staying still as the panic and anxiety flowed through your blood. People fear all different type of things which are called phobias. Phobias will cause people to make drastic decisions based on relieving the pressure of fear they are have at the moment. Fear was a major theme in the book Lord of the Flies and the movie The Hunger Games. Every character in both of these stories feared something causing them to react differently. The fear that allowed the characters to decent into savagery and

Fear caused the characters to decent into to world of savagery. The characters felt as thought they had to protect themselves which caused them to turn. Fear triggered the characters in Lord of the Flies to have a huge separation between reality and fantasy. The boys started to imagine this creature that they called the “beast.” The “beast” was described as a furry monster with wings, teeth and sharp claws and followed them, almost touching Sam and Eric. The reason why this caused them to decent into savagery is because they ended up killing Simon, who they though was the “beast”. All because of their change of perception when it came to reality and fantasy of the “beast”, they killed the Godly figure of the book and did not feel remorse. At the start of the novel the boys realized that the only food they had at the moment were berries. The fact that the boys did not have meat caused them slowly to turn into savages. At the beginning the boys were not able to kill the pig, feeling bad for it whereas at the end of the book the boys were killing without having that sense of doing anything wrong. By the fear of not having enough food and having to killing the pig it was the start of the boys

Loneliness was significantly shown in both The Lord of the Flies and The Hunger Games. When the characters had developed a fear to be lonely and by themselves. The idea of trying to surviving alone scared both the characters in the movie and in the book. When Peta realized he was weak, he gained the courage to make friends, joining groups so that he would not be lonely and he would be reassured he is feeling okay. The feeling of weakness scared Peta and he knew if he wasn't lonely and made friends then it would allow the rest of them to gain trust in him in order for them to not kill him. The fear of loneliness was also shown when Katniss needed help. She connected with the crowed which she thought would also her to get more sponsors during The Hunger Games. Without feeling the fear of loneliness, Katniss wouldn't have realized she needed help from the sponsors. In The Hunger Games both the main characters realized they needed some form of relationship to go into The Hunger Games. Peta needed to gain his confidence by using other people as for Katniss needed the sense of help and reassurance that everything was going to be okay. Loneliness was shown in The Lord of the Flies a little differently. Unlike The Hunger Games where they needed help and reassurance the boys in The Lord of the Flies realized they were alone from the start. Even though they have each other they didn't have a sense of parental