Journal #3

Theme is an important part of every story. For The Lord of the Flies  I belive the theme has something to do with corruption. Corruption is internal among human beings and not an external force. When Jack tries to turn everyone to his tribe everyone still had their free will to choose. Ralph still had plenty of food and ample will to lead them. Even when Jack orders people to start killing others no one decides to leave they just go along with it. No one was forced to do anything they were all corrupted from within themselves. When Simon is talking to the Beast it tells him how stupid they were to think they could physically hunt and kill the beast, that it was inside of them. The Beast was the devil inside of them all, some were able to control themselves and suppress it. Others were not as was obvious in the example of Jack.