Should People be Held Accountable for their Actions? Individuals in life or death situations should not be held accountable for their action. They are obviously going to want to be alive and happy, and not die or live in misery, so victims would most likely do whatever it takes to survive. Whoever made the decisions weren’t fully thinking it through because we all develop mentally at a different age for children and adults. Individuals who are in life or death situations don’t put themselves in that positions purposely to where they know they can die. In situations like these, everyone feels stress to the point where they have no other option until it is too late when they make their final choice like what happened in “The Seventh Man” …show more content…
Time moves so quickly for people in these cases so they have to think fast, but also what’s the right decision. They don’t have the time to process the information with the scene that is happening at the moment and often people don’t realize if it is the right decision or not until it is too late. In situations like these, everyone feels stress to the point where they have no other option until it is too late when they make their final choice like what happened in “The Seventh Man” about their situation with the wave. “My feet, though, which knew what was about to happen, turned away from my willin exactly the opposite direction. I ran away to the breakwater alone. I guess it was the overwhelming fear that made me do it. It robbed me of my voice, but it got my feet moving well enough. I fled stumbling across the soft sand beach and, arriving there, turned to shout at K” (Murakami 5). This shows how the situation the seventh man was in was happening so quickly that his brain couldn’t process what to do at the moment until when it was too late that he realized he could’ve made a different choice. With the Lord of the Flies, the boys had no way of knowing that the plane would crash and that the boys would be put in such a dangerous situation. What they did at the time they were there was not their fault because in the beginning of the book,
“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best” -Benjamin Disraeli. In the book, Lord of the Flies, A group of boys from England were sent away because of the war, but their plane crashed in the Pacific Ocean. There were no adults and the children attempted to keep it civilized, but they could not follow the rules and everything got chaotic on the island. The boys attempted to create a civilized society by creating rules, creating shelter and going hunting, but in the end they had fight to survive.
In William Golding’s Lord of The Flies, the survivors of the plane crash have to
In the Lord of the Flies, a group of boys were all found on the same plane flying over the ocean in the midst of WWII. In the center of an air battle, the boys find their plane venturing down at a rapid rate. After the plane crashes to the ground, the boys realize they are
What went wrong in the Lord of the Flies? Some may say Jack and some may say Roger, but what are the real reasons for the downfall of the boys? They are, the loss of hope, the loss of order, and the passing of time.
We as humans generally do not think critically before proceeding, but rather feel like it’s the right thing to do, therefore we go ahead and do it anyways. In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, A plane filled with a group of boys from Britain are shot down over an abandoned Island. These boys from the age of six to twelve, rush to the shore of the Island and have no choice but to work as a group for hope that they will be rescued. The boys use their skills but most importantly their instincts in order to stay alive. The main focus on the story is on Ralph, Piggy and Jack. These three characters have one thing in common,
The novel, Lord of The Flies wrote by William Golding is based on the survial of young boys stranded on a island with no adults. The tv show, Lost is based on the survial of plane members traveling after a brutal crash. Through both of the plots, it shows the brutalness of being stranded and the push to survive in the same type of conditions. In both situations the characters are battling with “something” in the jungle and also inner demons they are battling within themselves. They are forced to make disitions that humans shouldn’t have to, or have the power to. So was the deaths of some of these characters accidently ? needed? Or harshley planned?
Things are going to take a drastic turn in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. The boys are not prepared for what is going to happen;it is going to lead to their savagery instincts.The boys should take the blame for the devilish things that occur on the island. They kill,make fun of piggy, and fight way too much over the leadership.War is taking place in England and the schoolboys are looking for a state of safety. The only way to safety is leave the country. Things do not go as planned during the flight and the plane gets struck down by a war plane. They land on a deserted island with no adult in sight and truly learn the meaning, man vs nature. They will have to find food and water, choose a leader, and build shelter and a signal fire along with many other things in order to be rescued off the island. A tremendous amount of things take place: Majority of negative and some positive. The island shapes the boy’s personality and turns them into savages. Although they do civilize in the beginning; things
Get out of there! The wave is coming!” This time my voice worked fine...He tried to run, but now there was no time to run. In the next instant, the wave had swallowed him. “(The Seventh Man). Some may say that the Seventh Man should feel guilty for turning around as soon as he couldn't get K’s attention and letting him get swallowed up by the wave, however he did what he could at the time and spent 40 years of his life regretting his decisions. “At the end of the year I pleaded with my parents to let me move to another town. I couldn’t go on living in sight of the beach where K. had been swept away, and my nightmares wouldn’t stop. If I didn’t get out of there, I’d go crazy”.(The Seventh Man). The Seventh Man thought about not being able to save K. He was consumed by guilt and regret to the point of not being able to stay in his own
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is a novel about many things, including survival. By the time the boys are rescued from the island, many of them have done things for which they could be punished when they return to civilization. Though it is true the boys are all young, even the youngest of them understands the difference between right and wrong and knows that killing someone is not acceptable behavior. Nevertheless, there are several reasons why not to punish the boys when they return to their "normal" lives.
Remember when your parents told you: it was time to grow up and sleep alone? You liked the thought of growing up to a big boy or big girl, but you were unsure about sleeping in your own bed at night And when you hand a nightmare, or you heard something creeping up the stairs at midnight you got frightened, and when to your parents room and briefly told them what occurred. This same thing happen in Lord of the Flies, except there were no grownups to flee to when there was a conflict and they got
In the story Lord of the Flies, a plane full of kids is shot down. The plane that was shot down could’ve been mistaken because it was during WWII. All the boys survive and end up with no adults on the island. This story uses symbols of characters as savagery, intellect, and leadership.
With every second going by, a second of life is lost. With every minute coming to an end, so does sanity. “‘The thing is-fear can't hurt you any more than a dream. There aren't any beasts to be afraid of on this island.’” (Golding 91). Yet over time, the boys of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, discover that their dreams are more than just in there heads. Throughout the novel, Golding writes about how the boys were civilized with each other when they first crashed, but became completely insane by the end of the novel. By utilizing plot, character, and setting, the time the survivors spent on this uncharted land was much more time than they anticipated, and much more than they could handle.
From the beginning of Lord of the Flies the young English boys had been put into a situation they could not
The horrible tragedy that occurred in the beginning of Lord of the Flies became the start of the awful transformation that nobody could have expected. There were about 16-20 children on the plane that crashed on a desert island. They all play a certain role, but we are going to mainly talk about two of them, Ralph and Jack. The great thing about these two is that they are polar opposites (a foil). Ralph always has a good heart and does not want to put violence into any aspect of his survival. Jack on the other hand immediately wants to get his hands dirty by bringing up how you need food for survival so they need to go kill an animal that’s on the island. This is just one example
The boys’ savage and immoral behavior should be blamed on biology. When the plane crashed, the boys’ brains were not fully developed to live on their own. Eventually they all had an emotional breakdown.