Lord of Flies compared to modern day society

             The more attractive people seem to get the better and higher paying jobs. Like in Survivor they will eat grubs and insects to survive. We may find this disgusting, but human nature rules when we have no other options. Our human instinct also makes us frown at people with unwanted traits like being fat (obesity), poor eyesight or defects. These people cannot do for themselves and stronger people and die off so they may not reproduce. The fittest survive. Survival of the fittest was best described on pg. 8, "I can't swim on account of my asthma". Piggy was already going down in the food chain of the island. Ralph was a tall attractive boy who had very good leadership skills. It is no wonder that he voted in as leader. Piggy can't defend himself. Examples of this are when Jack says, "Shut up fatty." Another example is when piggy wants to come with them up the mountain pg. 20, " your no good for a job like this" .The boys on the island had no choice but to kill pigs like savages when they felt that they were hungry. When there is no order chaos arises. There are many examples of this in our society today. Riots happen when the people think they can get away with it. The numbers of people outweigh the number of authority figures like the police for example. People hurt other people and steal. This is not something that would happen in an ordered society. All these people know what's right and wrong but their human instinct gets the better of them when they think they can get always with it. The same thing happened on the island. With no authority like the adults or (police) things turned into chaos. They were trying to kill each other and ran around like savages just because they had no one to tell them they couldn't do that. There was a lot of importance that they were children and that is why this happened. That is simply not true. You could compare that kind of behavior to what children w...

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