The Lord of the Flies and The Lost Boys of Sudan

Initially, a great example to prove my views of human nature is the famous novel, The Lord of the Flies, by displaying the egotistic role played by individual beings. However, it failed to carry out the true facts about human nature in the end by demonstrating unrealistic actions saying “people will not finish what they started if they are hit with a road block.” In the end when Jack and his group were trying to find Ralph and kill him, I don’t think it was right for William Golding, the author of the novel, to have rescuers for Ralph. I believe that it is an impractical way of displaying human nature because it shows that “if people are going after what they want and something gets in their way, then they won’t do anything about it.” This is not how humans are. They will do anything in their power to get what they want if it is their true desire. I think that the end of the story should have ended with the death of Ralph because that would have displayed the trueness of peoples way of thinking by having Jack do everything he could to kill Ralph, just to gain “royalty” from his fellow followers.

“All for one and one for all,” does this sound familiar? Don’t believe it. No one abides by this statement. A correct statement to describe the acts of human beings is, “Happiness is selfish.” In order to be happy, one must do things for themselves, for their own pleasure. For an example of selfishness, I would like to let you know about The Lost Boys of Sudan. When the boys had to leave Ethiopia, because the government fell apart, they were chased to the edge of a fast river called Gillo. Because the river was moving quickly, crocodiles were in the river, and the government was chasing them, they knew there was a small chance of them actually surviving.“I needed to get across the river. I was thinking all day what I could do about it. I knew there was no one to help me.” This is said by one of the survivors, John Deng Langany. He is pretty much saying that the whole situation was “every man for themselves.” Each person was doing whatever they could do to get across that river alive. “I got only, I had only help one person. You know to the other side of the river. I can’t help any other people. There were many.” This is said by Simon Deng. In order for him to survive, he couldn’t help many of the other people across the river. People in general are guilty for this selfish state of nature. It’s who we are as people and there isn’t any running from it. There is no way to control how we are meant to act; it’s like a creature trapped in a cage and can’t escape.