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One can interpret Ralph’s exuberance during the hunt in two different ways. The first way is that Ralph and his people could be going insane. They are making joke about killing each other, and pretending that Robert is a pig. The boys are throwing him up in the air and poking him with a spear, as they would to an actual pig. Once again the boys are chanting, “Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!” This shows how the boys have not changed their ways, but they might have gotten worse. Another way one can interpret Ralph’s exuberance during the hunt is that Ralph and his people could be avoiding/delaying the serious issue. Once the boys find “the beast” reality will set in that they may actually be stuck on the island and have no hope of getting rescued. The boys still believe that rescue will come. They think that if they delay as long as they can before getting to the beast, than maybe they will get rescued before reality sets in.
ReplyDeletei actually completly agree wityh caryn. the boys could seem to be going more insane in the way that they "play" pig hunt with robert(not exactly the way i wanted t word it,. it shows a reversion back to primitive times and feelings. the island is literally causing them to become lesser species. or they could be just doing something they feel is fun to put the seriosness of the situation at hand out of their minds. i think at one point one of the boys asks what they are going to do if they really do find the beast and this causes all the boys to shift nervously and be slighly affraid. it also puts any thougfhts of not being rescued out of their minds wich in multiple ways could be considered and advantage or a disadvantage.
ReplyDeleteIn chapter 7 of lord of the Flies, Ralph and the hunters go off to try to kill the "beast". The way that he and the rest of the hunters act while they search for the "beast" is almost like they are so fearful that they are trying to make light of the situation by making joke’s amongst each other saying that they are going to kill one another. I think that reality has just begun to set on them so the only way that they can handle there fear is by acting like they have no fear and it is all fun and games. Even though the boys are just joking around, they almost kill Robert. The way that they almost kill him is kind of like how far are you willing to hide your fears until the point, which you can end up killing one of the people on the island.
ReplyDeleteIn chapter 7, as the boys search for the, "beast", they get over excited. Durring the hunt the boys come across a boar and try to kill it, but it didnt work. This hunt happenes to be Ralphs first hunt and this is all new to him, because he knows this is real. The boys get excited and want to act out the hunt of the boar. A boy named Robert gets in the middle of the circle as the boys chant,“Kill the pig, cut his throat, kill the pig, bash her in!” As Robert is in the middle the boys begin to jab him with their spears, almost leading to his death. The boys saw this as fun and as a game. All the boys are scared and there fear is growing so this might have been a way for them to hide there fears (by hurting Robert). Robert had no idea what he was getting himself into. The boys situation is getting worse, reality is hitting them more and more and causing the boys fear.
ReplyDeleteI believe that in the chapter, the boys mocking the situation of hunting the "beast" reflects how people in general respond to a scary situation. Like the boys, many people replace their fears with sarcasm or jokes to make whatever scary situation they're facing less frightening. In the chapter the boys tease Robert and pretend he's the boar and start chanting and such because they're all too frightened to just go on in silence, so they make jokes and mock to sort of "brush off" what they're feeling at the moment.
ReplyDeleteRalph's exuberance during the hunt parallels how Jack was acting when he killed his first pig. During the pig hunt Ralph may not have first understood that he wanted to kill the pig, but when he hurt the pig he was crazed with primal emotions. These primal emotions were a sense of superiority over other things including the pig. It was within Ralph’s ability to kill the pig and he immensely enjoyed that feeling. These feelings are ones that everyone experiences. The experience with Robert was another example of this. After the hunt they never succeeded in killing the pig so in its stead they used Robert as a surrogate for the pig. This suggests that Ralph, one of the more rational, organized, and law biding children, even has moments of primitive emotion and behavior. This is probably true of all people.
ReplyDeleteWhen the boys search for the beast they come across the boar. Now unlike Jack, Ralph's exuberance during hunt is his first time but he is still understanding that this is reality. When Ralph did kill the pig it is almost as he was coinciding with Jack. Everyone was enjoying the feeling of the kill, and this turns innocent boys into savages. so this almost portrays their loss of innocence and common sense. killing the beast is metaphorically speaking, killing their fear.
ReplyDeletein this chapter when they go ot looking for the beast even when they do find what there looking for ralph still wants to go on and hunt. I agree with what caryn said how the boys are going insane, because when there playing this "game" robert is actually getting hurt and when this is all over like when they get out of there little trance they talk about playing again and this is fun and they should add drums next time. When he said to add the drums i automatically thought of like primative times when people would perform rituals and they would hav drums too so the boys are kind of showing their primative side
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