Everyone's Actions Matter

People think what they do now doesn’t matter just what they will do differently later, but that is not true. One’s actions develop their character. Every time someone does something it is reflected back to them, whether or not they see it, because everyone else can sure see it. Bullies can be seen as clear as day, because of their actions and how they act around people and things. Though people can change, it is a lot harder to become a good person then a bad one, because people almost only see the bad in things, even if they are trying to change.

Lord of the Flies is all about symbolism, and this book explains, using symbolism, how men act when there are no rules and they can do has they please. This book shows that one’s actions develop their character. In chapters one and two the characters in the book are trying to figure out what they are to do and how to get off the island. When the character Ralph finds the conch he blows into it as loud as he can making a noise that can be heard throughout the entire island. Then boys started coming to Ralph, where Ralph then called an assembly and laid out the situations, and everyone elects Ralph as the chief, defining Ralph as chief. When Ralph blew the conch and all of the boys came, it put Ralph in the position of power, and it was him who brought them all together. Those actions that had taken place allowed everyone to choose Ralph as the chief. Now that Ralph was defined as the chief he decided to take action and explore the island. He takes Simon and Jack with him, while exploring three boys come across a trapped pig, they had just watched it until it escaped from the trap, and Jack is standing there with his knife in his hand and puts it back in his belt. As the boys are returni...

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...ere inhuman and that led to Piggy’s death. When Ralph and Jack go visit the Castle Rock Jack finds a boulder and says “We can roll rocks-” “Right onto the bridge-” When Ralph tells him, no and that they are going back to the camp, or when he was in Castle Rock against Jack and he was protecting Piggy, against anything that could harm Piggy. Then it was always Ralph who wanted to be rescued and get off the island, all of his actions show that he is characterized has a civilized man. The actions of Ralph was defined as the civilized man, because he wanted to keep the order and wanted to be rescued, and his actions toward the fire and protecting Piggy from harm define him as the civilized man. All of the characters, in Lord of the Flies, were characterized as something based on their actions towards a situation, and it shows that one’s actions develops their character.