Question 1

What is the major theme of this novel? Why is this theme important to a teenager living in 2007?

The major theme of the novel, Lord of the Flies, is the nature bad side of humans. This book shows how people can be cruel and kill other people. In this book, the boys were divided into two groups with two different societies. They kill each other because of the desire to destroy each other's society and make their own society more powerful. I think it is just a human being that people want to destroy other people's ideas for their own benefit. Savagery is something that humans cannot deny. We all have that inside our body and I think that it is a nature thing that we cannot get rid of. The author starts the savagery by the hunting of animals and it gets worse and worse and boys start to kill each other. In my opinion, we need to have rules and laws so that we can be in control of our savagery and not do anything bad that we will regret. I think that this is very important to people in modern society. Teenagers these days play games that are violent and we have all kinds of video games, books, and computer games that deal with violence. We, including myself, satisfy our desire of becoming violent by playing these games. And there are some teenagers that actually kill other people in real world and they do not realize that it is different from games. They cannot get out of their fantasy and they think that they are still inside the game. We have all kinds of medias and things that increases are savagery. I think that we need be in control of ourselves and we will be able to have a safer environment and better society without much of violence.