"Lord of the Flies" Part 2.

Part 2.
Prompt 1. (About evil and whether it is inherent in everyone.)
I do agree with the idea that everyone, no matter what age, has evil in them, however, I think that for the most part it takes a whole lot to uncover it in a lot of people. I am not talking about evil as in flipping out on someone because your having a bad day, that’s just displaced anger. Sure, evil is also influenced by anger, but it takes a lot more than that. For someone to be evil they have to either have gone completely insane or have just lost every reason in the world to not go out of their way to ruin peoples lives. Anyways I think that without anything to be happy about, to look forward to, or to hope for being evil would just come natural to just about anyone.
In “Lord of the Flies” Jack Merridew, in my opinion had gone a little bit crazy but was also just outraged that, for the first time, someone else was in charge of his choir and of him. He didn’t want to be bossed around by Ralph because what right did Ralph have to tell him what to do? After all Jack had been the big hunter of the group, where would they be with out him? Jack was convinced he should be in charge, so he took control by force and he ruled by fear. He tortured to get his way because if they never got off of that island they would be living the way he wanted, with him as the king. That was evil.

Prompt 2. (What Golding was trying to say about society and politics through the theme.)
I think that Golding was trying to show the fine line between a society ruled by fear and a society ruled by the people and how how fast a society can crumble without proper punishment. The kids on the island voted Ralph as the leader, he was respected by most and not selfish. Jack had something that Ralph didn’t though, he had a power over the boys that was inescapable. Jack used torture to get them to do what he wanted and once he gained power over a majority of the older kids there was really no way of fighting it. Jack wouldn’t have ever gotten as far as getting one person to join if he had been punished for doing wrong in the first place. Jack went behind Ralph’s back and gave opposite orders from the start, ending with a missed chance to be rescued from the island. Once Jack realized that he could get away with things with not so much as a slap on the wrist he decided he could gain control and there would be nothing Ralph could do to stop him. There are countries that have to face the problem of a government ruled by strictly fear and torture everyday. Countries that’s government’s aren't like that of the United States and are punished more harshly for harmless crimes than most would think necessary.