Lord of the Flies

                I believe that this statement by Andre Gide is true. Although, I believe that this statement is referring to more of a non-physical death, rather than physical. So rather than society actually killing a person, I believe it could kill his or her spirit, or soul. Ways that you could kill a persons’ spirit could be by making them feel like an outcast. There could also be instances where people could have enough power over someone and they could fill their head with lies that make them believe they are not worth it and get in their head and eventually cause the person to commit suicide.

                If we can’t separate our savage self from our civilized self, I believe that our savage self would definitely take over rather than our civilized self. As much as people hate to admit, if things got hard enough, you would rather do what is best for yourself and be greedy rather than trying to help other people, which is a savage. Lord of the flies shows a great example of this. Rather than sticking together, Jack makes his own group and they eventually end up killing each other and fighting. I feel like no matter how hard you try to stay civilized, your savage self will always end up taking over.

                A civilization is created when everyone comes together as a whole to work together and survive rather than working alone and only for yourself. It is hard to decide whether people are controlled by the society, or if the society is controlled by the people, but since I have to choose, I believe that people are controlled by society for multiple reasons. There are lots of rules, laws, and norms that people have created, and everyone just follows them. If someone doesn’t follow the rules, laws, or norms that we have, they either get in to trouble or just stick out.

 LOTF is basically telling Simon to stop trying to help out the rest of the boys because they will never be rescued and will be here forever.

Simon has been doing his best to help everyone in the group rather than being a savage and only helping himself. 

Because LOTF is only in Simon's head. Not anyone else's.