Lord of the Flies: Q4

• What is the climax of this novel?
• What happens?
• How do the events of this novel make you feel?

I was thinking and thinking about the climax of the novel, but it really didn’t give me one clear and evident event of the novel. According to the definition of Oxford Dictionary, the word climax has two meanings. (1) The turning point at which the conflict begins to resolve itself for better or worse, (2) The final and most exciting event in a series of events.

To look at the first definition, the climax is where Jack rebels from Ralph’s group and forms his own tribe. From this point, the conflict between Jack and Ralph, which started from the very first part of the novel, gets worse. Now, there are two entire different groups: Jack’s group who goes hunting and becomes the group of evil and cruelty, and Ralph’s group who insist that they will a high possibility of being rescued when they light the fire up.

According to the second definition, the climax occurs when Piggy tries to preach the democracy world and Roger kills Piggy. It was so surprising to know that these kids are so cruel to kill a person they dislike, so violently. After the death of Piggy, who died because of the preach he made in front of Jack’s tribe about democracy, Jack’s tribe head for the life of Ralph. This again, gave me a big shock of the boys who were innocent and peaceful at the very beginning of the novel, and how the evil nature could just change the whole, entire being of human.