Who are the main characters in the novel? Do you like them? Why or why not? What is special about them? What do they reveal about the universal human experience?
The main characters in the novel, ‘Lord of the flies,’ have very different and opposite types of characteristics. The major characters are Ralph, Jack Merridew, and Piggy. Ralph is a chief chosen by all the people in the islands, and his abilities are competent for Ralph to be a chief. On the other hand, Jack, Simon, and Piggy all have very mysterious characteristics. Ralph is very reliable leader to everyone because he understands and solves the way to the solution of a situation clearly. Piggy is a fat boy who is not really attractive to other kids because he always gets ignored by people. His cleverness helps the other teenagers in the island, such as the ability to tell the other guys about things to do step by step. On the other hand, Jack Merridew is very helpless teenager who always thinks about himself. He is the leader of the choir, or I should say hunters now, and he eager to be the chief on the island, but fails because of Ralph. After he comes to the island, he becomes more and more negative, and becomes nothing more than a slaughter, or killer. To me, Piggy and Ralph are more attractive than Jack. Since Piggy and Ralph don’t forget their purpose of going home, they always think about being rescued while Jack Merridew is pondering things about hunting pigs. What Jack Merridew becomes, is a predator since he kills the pigs and enjoy it. From those characters, I saw some conflict between each character. When there is a group of people, there is always a fight, from opposing ideas. This novel showed rightness or fault that of a universal human experience.
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