The Lord Of The Flies Newspaper Analysis

Analysis of a Newspaper

This tabloid article about the death of Simon uses exaggerated language in the title, ‘’Killed by friends?” in my opinion, this instantly attracts the reader, because there are two words which are not used to be seen together: “Killed” could mean violence and chaos where “Friends” relate to peace, this suggests that there is something shocking going to happen in the article. When we look at the article we notice the sub title “Ignorance of younglings” the word “ignorance” could suggests that the act that “younglings” done is reckless and they were unaware of their actions, therefore making us think that the fault for Simon being killed shouldn’t be put on the children whom killed him, because they are still too
young to understand it. Reading the article words such as “incomprehensible” suggest that it’s no ordinary “killing “and there is something unexplainable. Furthermore we start to see the shocking part of the article when we get informed that Simon was “violently murdered by his peers”, this suggest the savagery of the boys in the island, and people might start to think that boys who killed Simon are terrible people. Also we see that some of the boys are trying to cover up the deed they’ve done, “he hadn’t any business crawling like that out of the dark. He was batty. He asked for it”, this suggest that they are not even to feel sad for Simons death, and they don’t even blame themselves for such act. This sub title and the words used where chosen to show the actions that boys made are unthoughtful and reckless. Letting the first part to stay in our head while we see the second sub title “Friends Don’t Help Friends” suggests that friends were responsible for the killing of Simon.
In this part of the article two people Piggy and Ralph are highlighted as Simons “friends”, because the article is tabloid, we will see that the newspaper is biased against Ralph and Piggy. Remembering the first part we thought of Piggy as guy whom tries to say that in was only Simons fault for being killed, and so it makes us now feel grudge on him because even though we see that he is highlighted as his friend, he still lets his friend die and even blames him for being killed. This part focuses on making Piggy and Ralph, more Ralph to be shown as a person who let his friend die. The language in here has a lot of questions which judge Ralphs decisions and this lets the readers mind to be manipulated better into thinking that Ralph is the guy who killed Simon by not simply telling the others not to kill him. It makes us think that Ralph had the power to save Simon, but he didn’t use it. Words such as “for the sake of his reputation” suggest that Ralph is selfish and therefore this could bring even more hatred from the reader towards Ralph even more.
The picture with a saying “a friend in need is a friend indeed” is used to show that Ralph was not a real friend to Simon, because friends would’ve helped their friends in trouble, and wouldn’t let them be killed in front of their
eyes. This article was created to persuade and manipulate readers into thinking that Ralph is a person who should be accused for the murder of Simon “We could even say that Ralph (even thou he says Simon was his friend) is responsible for Simons death”, the article has to make a reader feel angry towards Ralph. This article is split into two parts, the first part doesn’t focus on ralph being responsible for Simons death. The first part focuses on Simon’s death, and what caused it, “It turns out that the boys were terrified and wanted to hunt so called “Beast” since the day they appeared on the island, and so therefore without thinking they killed Simon”. The second part only focuses on judging Ralph for Simon’s death. The audience of the article could be all people who read tabloid newspapers, whom don’t have their own way of thinking about what is right and what is wrong for a person to do.