Murder In Lord Of The Flies Essay

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In both of these stories “Lord of the Flies” and “LOST” people die and the way they die could be considered murder. Is it murder? Was it an accident? Who would be guilty? Who would be innocent? I will share my opinion on the matter. The stories can be considered similar in many ways. In Lord of the Flies Simon and piggy dies from unthinkable events the same with the character Mars in LOST. The definition of murder is the unlawful premeditated killing of one human by another.
My thesis is that they was all murdered and that the people who killed them knew what they was doing at the time and they just wanted to kill someone. I think that Piggy, Simon and Mars was murdered and it wasn't an accident I have my thoughts and proof that it wasn't. …show more content…

In the book he is crawling out of the forest with dirt on him and him screaming that an old guy died on the mountain top. The kids thought he was the monster so they surround him and beat him to death and spelt his guts all over the sand. Piggy tried to say it was an accident but Ralph knew it wasn't because Ralph knew what the kind of person that Jack turned into. Simon was too little to be the beast and Ralph knew that but it was too late to save him.
In the show LOST an Air Marshal named Mars was injured in the plane crash. Jack tried to save his life but it was pointless and Mars knew he was going to die so he begged Kate to kill him but a character named Sawyer shot him in the chest. The shot didn’t kill him so Jack had to suffocate him to put him out of his misery. That's murder because the kill of another human is unlawful even though Mars wanted it. Sawyer should have not shot him because he just put Mars in more pain so Jack had to finish him off which he didn’t want to do.
So the people who murdered them are guilty because they killed a human being unlawfully which is a crime. The characters didn’t have to be killed they could have been left alive and not harmed but people can be crazy in books and tv shows. Jack, Sawyer, Jack, and Roger are all

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