“Being in a group of six boys was not to our advantage” Beah states early on in the book (page 37). Under his circumstances, Beah was better off traveling alone because of many reasons. As a group, the boys were viewed as rebels. They had guns to their heads many times because of a suspicion that they could be causing the trouble. The stoppage of the group because of the fear they would be spotted or killed also slowed them down. They fought for water and anything they could find to eat in order to survive, even if it meant taking food out of a child's hands. This caused many challenges to the group. Alongside of that, being in a group influenced his decision making. The things happening to him and his group was affecting the way he viewed
...es your life and everyone around you. No matter what anyone says, you are a lot different after your life (or another’s) has been placed in the hands of others. The boys not only matured a lot, but leadership roles emerged. It became obvious that Gordie was a leader in the group less than halfway through. And as groups tend to do, they relied on his leadership more and more until the end. The group was faced with the additional challenge of dealing with difficult group members. But the group discovered the concept of synergy when they found if they stuck together and used teamwork, they are a lot stronger unified than individually.
group fail. By now, most of the older boys are beginning to act like savages,
As a group they were to be feared, but when two of them tried to stand up to Alex, who was the leader, things seemed amusing to me. Of the two who tried to stand up to Alex, there was one obvious leader, while the other was a follower, again. Alex started beating them up, and while this was happening, the fourth of the group got scared and ran. He didn’t have a mind of his own to take sides either way, he just did what he was told. This shows me that the people who were following Alex were in obvious need of a role model, or even just a hug. Taking terms from chapter six, Alex was not a d...
Thinking that the war was just an ideal character. Convincing the reader to believe the boys didn't know the risk they were taking by being in this war. They way the boys viewed it, shows that, true their are some hard times in wars, but their minds are young and they thought it was just another thing to talk about. When they should have been taking things more serious, but thinking about the good parts helped them to keep a hold on their sanity. "They ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress to the future", was the beliefs of the boys after their friend Behn dies. Their generation thought that the authorities were going to look after, and take care of them, the authorities were thought of real highly by them. Until their friend passed away, then everything changed. "We had to realize that our generation was more to be trusted than theirs", this is where they came to reality that, everybody was taking care of their selves, and didn't want anything to do with other peoples problems.
However, many discovered that life away from home was no picnic. Some thought it would be fun and exciting, like an adventure. All the younger boys thought it was a holiday, but not sure why the women and girls were crying.
His relation and development to the thematic of the power of love (and how it drives you)
Without the guidance of Miss Bibi Chen, the group makes ignorant decisions that lead to them missing out on experiences that would have been truly memorable. What made the group choose to change the itinerary? No one was as knowledgeable about Burma as their friend Bibi Chen. I would have to assume that what they think they know about the country lead them to make changes. Their arrogant dispositions lead them to make some poor decisions, decisions in which lead me to cover my head in embarrassment. (294 words)
Even though Bierce choose a different style to deliver his message to his readers, at the end of the story, the readers can clearly see Baryle’s reasons for bravery was selfish and his actions has nothing to do with his love for his country or his man.
Ferdinand is intuitively afraid of individuals, crowds and society as a whole. While en route to the colony, Bardamu experiences this fear of others, when he is condemned to death by his fellow passengers, because he is traveling with an inexpensive fare.
...to perspective for him. He finally got to understand that he was the last one left. If he did not share anything and everything he knew about his tribe, they would perish forever.
...group as they face more and more trials. Their small group triumphantly solved an important problem that affected each individual. As a group, they were much more suited to outwit "One-eyed" Willy’s booby traps, to outrun the underhanded Fratelli family, and to out do the rich people of the town by saving their neighborhood.
This is an instance of diffusion of responsibility among the boys. In order for them to all survive everyone needs to pull their own weight and work to provide food and shelter. However the boys get lazy and start getting distracted by other things on the island. Golding states, “I mean who built all three? We all built the first one, four of us the second one, and me’n Simon built the last one over there.” (Golding.107). There are so many boys on the island that each one thinks it’s alright for them to slack a little. One by one they all start slacking and there is not enough people actually working in order to make up for all the boys who have stopped. All of the boys fell into witness behavior and watched as people worked rather than helping them. Similar to another part of Darley and Latane’s experiment with fake seizures. A group of students were all in a chat room where they had an allotted time to speak, one actor faked a seizure for the students to hear; yet, only a third of students reacted. They expected the others would help him, so they wouldn 't have to. The same with the boys, they expected the others to do the work for
They had each other to get through this tough time because they noticed they are all dealing with the same situation. Again showing, that this brotherhood seems to come to the rescue again. Baumer states “Had we gone into the trenches without this period of training most of us would certainly have gone mad….practical sense of esprit de corps, which in the field developed into the fines thing that arose out of the war-comradeship.” (26-27). The passage demonstrates comradeship because if they didn’t seem to have anyone to lean on or share their emotions together with, they would all be dead in the battlefield. Since the boys aren’t old enough to have family back at their homes, all of them are looking at the war as the right way to die because there is no point of surviving with nothing to go back to. It seems that in trenches many people are bored non-stop where all they do is sit around and wait, day til night. This may cause severe depression most likely, but it seems that with the help of others all in this difficult situation you are able to get through this together. The role of comradeship in the novel is useful, but important at the same time because it helps all of the 19 year-old boys
Jack fails to realize that the boys need security, stability, and order on the island Jack was a leader of the choir before the boys landed on the island. These boys, who were in the choir, still want to follow Jack; however, they have no discipline at all. The only thing that is on Jack’s mind is hunting. He doesn’t care about anything else, except capturing and kill the pigs for some food.
The man towards the end refers to himself being a part of the boys. “He did not belong with himself any more, for even then was out of himself, standing with the boys and looking at himself in the snow” (527). Although, this might be what the man ultimately wanted, it was far from being true. The boys might not have had as much knowledge as the old-timer, but they at least had enough to know that they need to stay together and stay on the direct route to camp. The man goes off the trail because he wants to check out timber prospects, this could be because he wanted to impress the boys. He was a newcomer, maybe he felt as if he had to earn his way into the group. The boys represent safety. When they are referred to in the story, its always in relation to food and fire, the two things needed to survive in the wilderness. “The boys would be there, a fire would be going, and a hot supper would be ready” (519). Even to the dog, the boy represented fire and