Letter to Golding

Mr. William Golding, The novel you wrote called Lord of the Flies, deals with how nature is fundamentally bad to the schoolboys who are stranded on an island that is inhabited by what the boys call as the beast and a boar roaming on the island. As the book progresses to this point, I can see that the children are beginning to gain animal-like characteristics. Since the boys are all alone without any adults giving them a direction to how to live, they have trouble cooperating to work together and bring something useful to everyone. Jack starts a fire using Piggy’s specs and the schoolboys do not keep an eye on the fire. Without using proper judgment, the fire burns down a tree. When Piggy tries to get the group together, nobody listens to him but Ralph, Sam, Eric, and the littluns. No one listens to him because he is plump. When Jack states that Ralph should not be a leader anymore, Jack asks the others to vote him out. No one listens to Jack, so Jack and the other kids leave Ralph’s group and form their own organization. The schoolboys do not cooperate, so survival for everyone is complicated. When the boys are fighting with each other, they begin to act like animals. Animals do not have class, but humans don’t if their behavior is juvenile. Humans have class if they know the right from the wrong. If the schoolboys want to gain survival, they need to work together in order to support each other. Sincerely, Mr. Matthew Yang