When one is put in a new environment and forced to fend for them, it comes with many obstacles and challenges. In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding and the movie The Hunger Games we are able to see how new surroundings can affect people. Both forms of literature have the theme of coming of age. Throughout Lord of the Flies and The Hunger Games we are able to see characters grow and develop while trying to keep their humanity, strive for survival and are under a lot of pressure.
In Lord of the Flies the boys must work together to try and stay alive. After a plane of British schoolboys crashed into a deserted island, they must find ways to survive in their new habitat. The boys are very creative in their survival mechanisms. Piggy is a very innocent character who is usually taken advantage of, the other boys on the island use Piggys glasses to build fires so they can cook, be warm and also to create smoke and to send rescue signals. In the beginning of the novel a leader was established to help lead them in survival as best he could, Ralph was chosen to give people jobs and instruction. Throughout the novel Jack takes over the group, which causes deaths instead. “His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.”(70). The boys were forced to kill animals in order to survive and get food. This quote is from Jack’s thoughts after his first pig kill. Similar to The Hunger Games, Katniss is forced to live on her own. She uses her knowledge in bow in arrow, to make one, which will help her hunt for food or kill. She also...
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...th this boy that the thought of not being with him was unthinkable. You...you'd rather die than not be with him. You understand?” Katniss is pressured by Haymitch to say she is deeply in love with Peeta in order to avoid them getting into trouble for switching the rules of the game. Katniss does not feel this way about Peeta but she proved to the audience she does, which is why she stays alive. The characters in both Lord of the Flies and The Hunger Games display very similar types of pressure.
In conclusion, the characters in the novel Lord of the Flies and the movie The Hunger Games demonstrate the coming of age through how civil or savage they act, how they learn to survive and how the handle pressure. Coming of age is a very diverse concept that has many aspects to it. Both the novel and movie represent how surroundings and people are able to change a person.
These two stories show us that survival not only happens when they are on a deserted island, or when they are competing in The Hunger Games but always for people such as Katniss who was forced to supply her family with food after the death of her father by hunting and for Piggy as being constantly bullied for wearing glasses, being overweight and having asthma. While both of them show how far humans can go for survival Lord of the Flies shows us that the perception of human civilization is nothing more than a brittle delusion, where everyone is struggling to survive every day.
William Golding's book, Lord of the Flies, represents the deepest and most dangerous nature of human kind. The story unravels as the boys are left to take care of themselves with no adults and no laws; "their civilized and regular selves leave and they evolve into more dangerous and violent humans, the true nature of human kind." Similarly, James Dashner's book, the Maze Runner, represents a nature of human kind as well. However, although the boys are left to take care of themselves, their civilized and regular selves flourish as they keep their society structured and ordered. The major theme in both novels are civilization against savagery. The similarities and differences in the leaders in both novels are also quite pronounced. Finally, Golding and Dashner also demonstrate similar qualities in their characters.
In addition, at the end of the Games, Katniss and Peeta are left with the question of either killing each other or both killing themselves. Collins says that after everyone is killed, the decision of the victor of the Hunger Games lies between Katniss and Peeta, both tributes from District Twelve; even though either tribute would be willing to give up their life for the other, they both decide to kill themselves after becoming fed up with the Games (344-345). Peeta and Katniss are so emotionally unstable from everything they have experienced with the Games that they both choose to die with each other. Furthermore, if an adolescent manages to survive the harsh war environment, they must still continue to fight the mental effects of the
Most of you are probably not fighting for the love of your life, against the views of many people, on an island right now. That's not the case for the characters in Romeo and Juliet and The Hunger Games. In The Hunger Games, Katniss's sister Primrose is picked as tribute to be submitted into the games to fight against 11 different districts. Katniiss, who is in District 12 is from a very, very, poor coal-mining district located in the region formerly known as Appalachia.(Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games). Katniss being the caring sister she is, tributes herself to save her sister. She must leave behind her love, Gale. When she leaves him behind, she meets Peeta. Peeta was also picked to be tribute in the games. Katniss finds out that Peeta has feelings for her, and she tries to fight the urge to love him as much as she loved Gale. Throughout the book and the movie you see that she falls for every little thing about him, the only problem is that she may have to kill him to save herself. (Gary Ross, The Hunger Games)
In conclusion, after comparing both a Classic novel and a Modern Novel the Classic novel won the battle between old and new. I personally liked Lord of the Flies a lot more than the Hunger Games because of the way the themes were demonstrated and they way I was lead to view the main characters.
In the popular stories The Hunger Games and “The Most Dangerous Game” the main characters are skilled hunters that are partaking in games where they have to hunt while being hunted. They both show main traits of “true survivors”, including using their hunting knowledge to survive, using resources and building traps, and standing up to their fear or being able to turn it around.
In the novel The Lord of the flies, William Golding illustrates the decline from innocence to savagery through a group of young boys. In the early chapters of The Lord of the Flies, the boys strive to maintain order. Throughout the book however, the organized civilization Ralph, Piggy, and Simon work diligently towards rapidly crumbles into pure, unadulterated, savagery. The book emphasized the idea that all humans have the potential for savagery, even the seemingly pure children of the book. The decline of all civilized behavior in these boys represents how easily all order can dissolve into chaos. The book’s antagonist, Jack, is the epitome of the evil present in us all. Conversely, the book’s protagonist, Ralph, and his only true ally, Piggy, both struggle to stifle their inner
The lord of the flies is a book about a group of boys stranded on a tropical island to illustrate the evil characters of mankind. Lord of the Flies dealt with changes that the boys go through as they gradually got use to the stranded freedom from the outside world. Three main characters pictured different effects on the other boys. Jack Merridew began as the bossy and arrogant leader of a choir. The freedom of the island allowed him to further develop the darker side of his personality as the Chief of a savage tribe. Ralph started as a self-assured boy whose confidence in him came from the approval of the others. He was kind as he was willing to listen to Piggy. He became increasingly dependent on Piggy's wisdom and became lost in the confusion around him. Towards the end of the story when he was kicked out of the savage boys he was forced to live without Piggy and live by himself. Piggy was an educated boy that was more mature than the others, that was used to being picked on. His experiences on the island were a reality check of how extreme people can be with their words.
The novel Lord of the Flies was full of challenges that the boys overcame in order to survive. Conflicts within themselves, with nature and with each other constantly test the children’s ability to endure. Struggles against the natural elements of the island, rival groups or fear of the unknown continually appear throughout the story. Some of the boys on the island did not survive the quarrels that they faced. They perished because they were lacking something that the surviving boys did not. The survivors had a natural primal instinct or a physical or mental advantage over the boys who did not make it. ‘Only the strong survive’ is an important element that runs through the novel Lord of the Flies because in order to survive the boys must turn to their primitive instincts of physical strength and savagery.
I believe that the rich use their money as a threat to maintain a sense of superiority. I believe that the difference in perspective differs in each character in The Hunger Games and in The Great Gatsby. In the movie you are able to see that the people in the districts dread the idea of the hunger games, with the exception of district 1 and 2, the districts are against the hunger games. In The Hunger Games you are able to see the fluctuating opinions of the games based on where the characters are located. In district 12 the games are viewed as a death sentence, a way for the Capital to feel like they have control, in the capitol the Hunger Games are really viewed as games because they don’t know anyone getting slaughtered and to them it’s like
In William Golding's Lord of the Flies a group of kids who are fleeing a war, plane crashes and they are stranded on a deserted island without Adult supervision. The first thing all the kids do is vote for a chief and Ralph, who is more responsible, wins over Jack. They are the choices because Ralph is the Colonel of the whole group and Jack is the oldest out of all the boys. As the story goes on and when Jack starts his own group all of the kids lose sight of their main goal, to be rescued. They're all having too much fun when they switch over to Jack's group hunting and killing for food. In the story there are four main characters that are in a sense the leaders of the crew. There's Piggy and a quiet Simon who do not possess the scrappiness that Ralph and Jack do. These strengths are what help Ralph and Jack survive. Piggy is always talking about how his Auntie would not let him do this or that and Simon was just a quiet, reserved kid who is regarded as weird just due to the fact that he is calm.
In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Simon and Piggy are among a group of boys who become stranded on a deserted island. Left without any adults, the boys attempt to create an orderly society. However, as the novel progresses, the boys struggle to sustain civility. Slowly, Jack and his hunters begin to lose sight of being rescued and start to act more savagely, especially as fears about a beast on the island spread. As the conflict progresses, Jack and Ralph battle for power. The boys’ struggle with the physical obstacles of the island leads them to face a new unexpected challenge: human nature. One of the boys, Simon, soon discovers that the “beast” appears not to be something physical, but a flaw within all humans
The book Lord of the Flies by William Golding is an exhilarating novel that is full of courage, bravery, and manhood. It is a book that constantly displays the clash between two platoons of savage juveniles mostly between Jack and Ralph who are the main characters of the book. The Kids become stranded on an island with no adults for miles. The youngsters bring their past knowledge from the civilized world to the Island and create a set of rules along with assigned jobs like building shelters or gathering more wood for the fire. As time went on and days past some of the kids including Jack started to veer off the rules path and begin doing there own thing. The transformation of Jack from temperately rebellious to exceptionally
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding is tale of a group of young boys who become stranded on a deserted island after their plane crashes. Intertwined in this classic novel are many themes, most that relate to the inherent evil that exists in all human beings and the malicious nature of mankind. In The Lord of the Flies, Golding shows the boys' gradual transformation from being civilized, well-mannered people to savage, ritualistic beasts.
Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a novel that represents a microcosm of society in a tale about children stranded on an island. Of the group of young boys there are two who want to lead for the duration of their stay, Jack and Ralph. Through the opposing characters of Jack and Ralph, Golding reveals the gradual process from democracy to dictatorship from Ralph's democratic election to his lack of law enforcement to Jack's strict rule and his violent law enforcement.