Lord of the Flies: Q5

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

The mood of this novel is dark, pessimistic, tragic, violent, cruel, evil, and unsparing. The novel actually doesn’t start very moody at all. The setting, character, and everything just seems like it goes well, when actually Jack was plotting something. The part I enjoyed was where everybody seemed to be doing ‘okay’ without the adults who hold them with society’s rules and organizations.

However, from the part of the novel where Jack rebels to Ralph and makes his own tribes to go hunting, the words in the novel just altered into violent and vicious words. The events that were happening in the island were too aggressive and cruel that reality seemed to be failing as I was reading the book. Later on, Simon dies from getting beaten up by people, and Piggy dies by being pressed under a rock. The brutal actions of the boys didn’t just surprise me, but also made my mouth not able to shut. After the death of both young and smart boys, Jack still wants to get rid of Ralph, the leader of the boys. He chases him after, setting fire on the island, and later on, Ralph gets beaten up and knocked down by Jack’s tribe. When Ralph runs away from them to the beach, he finds a Navy officer who was attracted by the smoke of the fire in the island. The Navy officer later takes them all to the Navy cruiser.

From then, I thought, how could human beings be so aggressive to each other, and I started questioning, when did origin from. According to the theme, we all have evil nature born with us, and I think the expression and revealing of the evil nature depends on the environment we are living on. This book just taught me a lot of lessons of how human beings are so destroyed from the birth.