The Walking Dead Vs Lord of the Flies
The Walking Dead and the Lord of the Flies hold a similar theme, survival. Both of the writers are trying to express that survival effects a group in more than one way. In The Walking Dead Rick finds his family, after waking up from a coma, with a group of other human survivors. While being stuck in the zombie apocalypse, the tension between Rick and Shane starts to form, like with Ralph and Jack. Rick becomes the leader forcing Shane to step down. Little does anyone know, but Shane isnt who he shows. He has changed into a heartless individual, just like Jack, and Roger did. In both The Walking Dead and the Lord of the Flies force their characters to hunt for food, change the way they think, and have some sort of leader.
When Ralph brings the group of boys together they had been eating fruit that had been causing extreme stomach issues. Jack volunteers his choir to become the hunters of the group, seeing that the group cant live off of the bad fruit. This is decided by Jack when Ralph states, “Jacks in charge of the choir. They can be-what do you want them to be” (page 23), during the first group assembly. Soon after Jack starts an obsession with killing a pig, and having the meet for the group. This obsession led to the fire going out on his watch. He finally killed a pig for the group, in the book it explains, “The gutted carcass of a pig swung from the stake, swinging heavily as the twins toiled over the even ground” (page 68), when Ralph first saw Jacks kill. From then on Jack and his hunters hunted down pigs each day to feed the group.
When people are forced into survival mode, they begin to think in a different way. Throughout the book Jack begins to slowly become blood thirsty. Even in the very beginning there are clear signs of his change, when he was proudly explaining the way he killed the pig, “I cut the pigs throat” (page 69), and the slight twitch he had as he said it. Jack quickly became more animalistic as the book escalated. While being “chief” of the “tribe” he created he started to punish the boys just to show them that he meant business. He showed how brutal he will be when