Adults In Lord Of The Flies

William Golding uses “Lord of the Flies” to explain how children act when they are with and without adults. Children act different in this story, because they don’t have any adults to look after them, or tell them what’s right from wrong. William represents civilization through the character of Ralph, because he has an orderly government compared to Jack’s savagery. Golding tells about a group of boys, who survived after a plane crash on remote tropical island without any adults and how they are trying to survive. The novel deals with the conflict between the rational mind and instinct.
Piggy is the clever one with poor eyesight, a weight problem, and asthma. Piggy represents the rational world. Piggy can’t be a leader himself, because he lacks leadership. He believes that holding the conch gives him the right to be heard. As the brainy one, Piggy claims that “Life is scientific.” Majority of the ideas that were focused on, on the island were ideas that came from Piggy. He was not like the other boys but he was better in many ways other than athletic. Piggy was smarter than the rest of the children. The bolder that killed him was pushed by Roger.
He stands up for Piggy and helps him get his glasses back, when Jack knocks them off his head. Simon has a secret place in the jungle where he spends alone time. The other boys think he’s odd. Simon dies because the boys think he is the “beast” that they saw in the tree. After they discovered it was Simon they felt sorry, and was sad. He was the symbol of christ in the story, and they beat him to death with their bare hands and spears. He was the sweetest out of the boys. Earlier in the story he adventured through the forest to find a cabin, that none of the other boys had found nor did they