Yes.

You cannot start looking forward to Christmas until after Thanksgiving. (In America).

I'm Canadian, and Thanksgiving went past like 4 weeks ago.

@Kilin I'll check the place out again, and I'll talk to you on msn.

My random word doc pwns yours.

Lord of the Flies is an outstanding novel by William Golding, it shows the lives of a group of boys stuck on an island after their plane was shot down. In his novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding shows the savagery and ruthlessness of boys after being stranded on an island for some time. Two of these boys exhibit opposite personalities, Simon and Roger. Simon was a pore peaceful vessel, and somewhat compared to a prophet of sorts, but Simon died when he stumbled into a circle of rage and fury in the blind dark. Roger on the other hand was strange and savage person, who had no regard for anyone except for himself and those above him, he proved this when he killed another child, laughing menacingly while doing so. It could be said that Simon died because he was weak and Roger survived because he was strong, the story of David and Goliath how it should have been written: one man stands against and greater power and is squashed like a bug, he dose not survive; imagine Michelangelo’s David crushed under the overbearing weight of truth. None the less, the main topic in Lord of the Flies is: do people have to be strong to survive? Do they have to submit to savagery? Who do you have to be in a situation like that? Can you be Simon and retain your morals from the outside world, or do you have to be Roger and blindly slash your way through the masses?

Simon at the beginning of the novel was the “go-toâ€? man, he was assimilated into the group of people that would be the most important. Other people could have been picked to do many tasks but Simon was chose instead, as in when Ralph chose Simon to go with him and Jack (to explore the island) instead of piggy. “He looked round the circle of eager faces. There was no lack of boys to choose from. ‘And Simon’â€? (Golding, 24). Simon was chosen by Ralph at the beginning to be a person of great importance, he could have picked anybody else, but he picked the little boy who fainted on the beach in the heat. Simons elated sense of importance didn’t last that long before it turned into a sense of fear and blinded confusion. Simons state of fear is introduced by the rotting pig head cleverly named The Lord of the Flies, who torments and mocks him (not literally, but his imagination gets the best of him when he is in a delirious state) and foreshadows events that would befall him. “Simon found he was looking into a vast mouth. There was blackness within, a blackness that spreadâ€? (Golding, 144). Simon felt that The Lord of the Flies was getting bigger and overpowering him, he was being submerged into the evil imagination full of darkness. In a blind confused state Simons death was evident, there was no way Simon would be able to control his actions. “At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, toreâ€? (Golding, 153). When Jack had the people start a war circle Simon stumbled into it yelling about a body on the hill, the people mistook Simon for the beast and killed it in a blinded rage. The murder of Simon was one of the most brutal and important messages in the book. Simon was a peaceful soul, but William Golding clearly shows that because he is peaceful he can not prevail.

Roger was a more unknown character until the end of the book where he kills Piggy, but none the less he is the inverted form of Simon. Although Roger turns out to be the most disorderly person, he was one of the first to create order and democracy when he called for a vote over who should be chief. “The dark boy, Roger, stirred at last and spoke up. ‘Lets have a vote’â€? (Golding, 22). Roger’s way of speaking at the beginning of the novel shows that he was eager to please those above him. This is shown clearly when Roger dose whatever Jack wants him to when he first joins the tribe, he even volunteers to come with Jack and Maurice to steal fire from Ralph’s tribe. “Maurice and Roger put up their handsâ€? (Golding, 161). Roger was eager to prove his trust to Jack, even if it was highly dangerous. Roger turned savage in less than a day of stealing the fire, when he killed piggy by dropping the huge boulder on him. “Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the leaverâ€? (Golding, 180). Roger wanted to please Jack more than anybody, he was even prepared to kill to do so. Rogers turn to Jacks savagery and heightening it enabled him to survive because he was feared.

The main point in Lord of the Flies was that people needed to be savage to survive on their own, people can not be trusted. Piggy trusted Jack and his tribe to not be as savage as to kill him. “You can take spears if you want but I shan’tâ€? (Golding, 171). Piggy didn’t expect to the people to be as savage as they were, and he certainly didn’t believe Roger would kill him. Ralph didn’t believe that Sam and Eric would rat him out to Jack and Roger. “‘He meant he’d hid in there?’ ‘Yes-yes-oh-!’â€? (Golding, 192). Ralph though Sam and Eric would remain loyal to him when he told them where he would be hiding, but they feared for their lives. Simon is another example of misguided trust, he trusted people would recognize who he was when he came stumbling out of the beach yelling. “Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hillâ€? (Golding, 152). Simon was murdered at that point because he was mistaken for the beast, but nobody cared they tried to act like they had no part in it. Trust was one of the most trivial things on the island, there was a fine line between trusting someone and singing your death sentence.

Trust, peace, and savagery, some of the things that could make or break your life on the island. Simon was more peaceful, therefore he died, Ralph was savage and he prevailed, and Piggy was too trustworthy which lead to his death. In the end, is it safer to be a savage? Or is safer to be peaceful and hope for democracy? It’s hard to say because people are almost never in situations like this. You can only know the answer once you know the outcome of the situation. This is why some people make the right choice and some make the wrong one, it’s up to us to pick the idea that best suits us and go with it, wander into uncertain danger. Life is like an adventure, you have to choose your own path.