In the end of the book I just finished Lord of the Flies my friends believed that I may have found the ending a bit unsatisfying, but truthfully I found it accurate. Near the end when Jack's tribe is chasing Ralph Samn'Eric betray Ralph because they are willing to sacrifice him to save themselves just like anyone would have done. Jack is chasing Ralph because he knows that Ralph is in a way competition towards the position of overall leader. Jack greed for the overall power is what drives him to kill anyone in his way. Even Ralph shows a sign of his human nature by trying to fight back when someone finds him hiding from the savages. My friends though I would be very disappointed when the boys all suddenly stopped when they saw the officer, but I was not. I saw this as a very good example of what I've been saying. Jack most likely still want to kill Ralph because of his greed, but his selfish nature to preserve himself kept him from because of the consequences from the structure that they had for such a long time been apart from. But all in all the ending would have been how I would have ended it because it's realistic and makes sense.
The Lord of the Flies shows how a lack of structure leads towards a brutal and short existence, which is a result of a lack of control on human nature.
The results that came from the lost boys was not a journey of caring for each other because they felt it was the right thing to do but because they could benefit from it. I wish that humans could care for each other and genuinely care for each others well being just because they care about each other. But human nature doesn't work that way. People will may appear to care for others but in the end they are just looking to benefit from the situation. Like some of the possible ideas that might of gone through the Sudanese boys heads are "if I help him he owes me one","The more people less chance I'll be shot if we're seen". The thoughts that may have gone through their head may have been evil human nature is a brutal thing. The selfish instinct to use anything that may help you to survive must have obviously played a large role that may have changed the outcome of this horrific event for the better. In the end of this event maybe it was because of their human nature they survived and if they were caring and not selfish then maybe less of them may have survived.
-Thomas Hobbes
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