Cameron Santoro

4/10/14

Lord of the Flies Blog#2

Mr. Fernando

Loss of Humanity

Now we are starting to see whether the little civilization that the boys have created will do one of two things, prosper and preserve their humanity or fail and dehumanize them. Now the book would just be boring if the boys learn to survive with each other and wait to get rescued,  so there civilization falls. The collapse of their civilization doesn’t take away their humanity immediately though, this doesn’t come till Piggy’s death in chapter eleven. When they kill Piggy their dehumanization has been completed because they have deliberately killed a person. This fall into dehumanization really began when Jack killed the pig. This begins their descent into chaos because they are taking life for granted, killing the pigs on the island has desensitized them to violence and death, and the final push they need to fully become illiterate animals is found when they spill the blood of a person. When Piggy dies Jack and the hunters start to act very stupidly. This behavior is very comparable to what the American Indians acted like thousands of years ago. This how the dehumanization on the island finally occurs, an increased lust for blood from the murder of pigs directly results into the murder of fellow man.