Aiming to Kill

Aiming to Kill

  • Submitted By: melm
  • Date Submitted: 02/19/2009 7:38 PM
  • Category: Book Reports
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Bill Cosby, actor and television producer, once said, AThe main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.” (quoteworld.org). The violence mentioned in this quote is easily noticed in the world today, because the people in society are influenced by bad judgment and therefore call upon physical force to solve their issues. As each day progresses, people are ignoring communication and civilized reasoning to solve conflicts, replacing it with multiple different ways of violence. William Golding=s novel, Lord of the Flies, demonstrates the evolving violence through his characters, more importantly through the children, which are the future leaders of the world. Although some boys are civilized, innocent and helpful, clearly they become the targets of the savages= increasing violence. This aspect is well demonstrated through the victims such as the littluns, Simon and Piggy.

Firstly, Golding shows violence’s lack of justice through violence towards victims that are unable to stand up for themselves, such as the littluns. When the older boys start craving control over the littluns, bullying becomes a way to pass the time. For instance, when Roger and Maurice destroy the littluns’ sand castles: ARoger led the way straight through the castles, kicking them over, burying the flowers, scattering the chosen stones. Maurice followed, laughing, and added to the destruction@ (Golding 60). The boys are careless towards the littluns’ feelings and decide to bully them because they are easy targets. The littluns cannot defend themselves, but the older boys make themselves appear pathetic by targeting the younger ones. Furthermore, Golding shows the amount of temptation rising to bully the littluns; therefore leading other innocent boys to pick up on the bad habit. For example, Roger has always been a well-mannered boy, and never dreamt of committing a sin, however he begins to enjoy the thrill of taunting the littluns by throwing small rocks at them,...

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