QUESTION 5

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

The major theme of this novel is that society affects the way people react. It takes a lot of heart to do what’s right. Just like how Jack influences most of the boys. When Jack’s hunger and thirst driven for power makes him like a savage. Slowly before he knows it, the wilderness turns him greedy and hungrier for power as he goes along the novel. As the hunter boys start to complain about how hard living on the island is, that’s when Jack influences them. So as he starts to influence them, Ralph is left alone along with Piggy as his only companion. This theme just covers the whole human society of how they react. It is to tell us that you should follow your heart no matter what the situation you’re in. Just do the right thing and it will all be okay.

This theme is one of the most important themes for a teenager living in this world today. These days, we teenagers are seeing role models in different ways. We see them as celebrity stars or people who we think have great physique to look up to. It is all controlled by the media for us to think this way. This explains a lot about why the 21st century has a lot of sins. They follow what everyone else does and if it’s not acceptable in the society, you become an outcast. Being an outcast is more than just not having friends, but wasting your life with nothing to do. These days, many teenagers’ goals are not to become outcasts. They know what the consequences are of being one, so they follow the bandwagon of what everyone else does. For example, there are a lot of girls who feel they need to lose weight and possibly be anorexic to look pretty. What they don’t know is that being anorexic looks extremely bad. This is what blinds you in society. You don’t realize that it’s happening to you, and you realize when you start to regret about your life.