Lord of the Flies Pages 60-80

The social structure of the boys on the island begins to fall apart. Jack's personality begins to change. The time he has spent on the island, along with his obsession with hunting pigs probably has something to do with his personality change. He repeatedly challenges Ralph at the meetings by the lagoon and he appears to resent Ralph's elected authority. Ralph becomes very angry at Jack for letting the signal fire on the mountain go out. Jack had been hunting pigs while he was supposed to be watching the fire. Ralph's demeanor on the island also begins to change. The initial optimism has died and Ralph has realized that being stuck on the island may not end well. He also begins to realize that he cannot trust many of the boys on the island to do their jobs. This leads Ralph to become pesimistic. Many of smaller boys on the island also being to resent Ralph's leadership.
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Lord of the Flies Pages 40-60

The boys begin to realize that living on this island is not going to be very fun. Ralph and Simon construct shelters for everyone, while Jack tries to kill his first pig. All the other boys go and play in the ocean or sleep. Ralph begins to become frustrated because all of the other boys won't work. His leadership skills seem to be slipping because he cannot seem to get the boys to do what he wants. Simon is becoming more and more withdrawn. This is a sharp contrast to what at first he came across as. He seemed at first very outgoing, but this may have just been a cover for something that he is hiding. Jack seems to be becoming obsessed with sticking and killing a pig. He only talks of killing pigs and every thought he has includes pigs in some way. This obsession may have started because of the boredom of living on the island. The pigs offer a hobby that help focus him away from other things.
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Lord of the Flies Pages 20-40

The boys begin exploring the island. Ralph leads a pack of three around the island. It is clear that Ralph has emerged as the alpha-male of the group because all of the other boys seem to listen to him and do what he tells them to do. At first, Jack the choirboy seems very confrontational. He seems to take an aggressive stance against Ralph after Ralph has called all of the boys with the conch shell. This aggressive attitude eventually gives way to a submissive attitude when Jack goes along with what Ralph says. The other boy Simon is a very odd character. At first he seems quite melodramatic, but a little later in the novel he seems like a very quiet character who speaks only when spoken too. Piggy also begins to change as the story goes on. He seems withdrawn in the first few pages of the novel, but later in the novel, he seems to be outspoken and assertive.
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Lord of the Flies Pages 1-20

What seems to be the two main characters are introduced in this section of the novel. Ralph seems to have all the characteristics of a leader, and I believe he will lead the group of boys during their time on the island. The other boy, Piggy, seems to be much more subserviant. He also appears to be much more child-like than Ralph. The story hints that there has been a plane crash which stranded the boys on the island, but never actually tells of what happened to the plane or how the boys survived. I would've appreciated it if the story had told how all the boys survived. I find it odd that the boys survived, but no adults survived. I don't understand how a plane crash can lead to the deaths of the adults,without so much as an injury to any of the boys. I would also like the story more if the setting was described in more detail. I could not gain a full mental picture of the island from what was described in the novel.
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Final Words on Brave New World

Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World as his prediction of what the future may hold. He used well rounded characters to tell the story of a world in which almost every aspect of life was controlled. The settings of the book were very detailed and intricate, from the factory where new members of society were made to the deserts of the Savage reserves. The futuristic characteristics of the society were also very intriguing. These included the different castes of people, from Alpha to Epsilon, the helicopter transportation systems, and the drug soma, which offered escape for distressed members of society. Huxley's opinions on personal freedoms were very evident in the novel. He seemed to feel that governments were on a path that would lead to the destruction of personal liberties under the ideal of "happiness." The novel suggests that government only desires complete control of its own citizens and it will try to gain this control through any means necessary, including taking away the natural right of birthing and parenting a child. Huxley may have acquired this view of government watching the Nazi fascist machine come to power in the early 1930's. At the end of his novel, one of the main characters commits suicide because of the pressures of "civilized" life. Aldous Huxley may have been trying to communicate that if a government ascertains the amount of control it did during the novel, modern ways would perish and all traces of the past erased by the new regime. Brave New World serves as a commentary to what would become if a world government successfully gained an unimaginable amount of control and changed life as we know it.
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Quote from Brave New World August 3, 2010 Page 259

"Thew door of the lighthouse was ajar. They pushed it open and walked into a shuttered twilight. Through an archway on the further side of the room they could see the bottom of the staircase that led up to the higher floors. Just under the crown of the arch dangled a pair of feet."
-Brave New World Page 259
The weight of the "Brave New World" that the Savage was thrust into finally crashes down upon the Savage. The new lifestyle thrust upon the world by the maniacal government has finally driven a man to take his own life. The pleasure-centered ways of the new world does not sit well with the Savage. He feels life should and needs to be tough to make it worth living. These people living in such sin angers the Savage because of the beliefs instilled in him by the natives back on the reserve. He cannot stand living with such filthy people.

Quote from Brave New World August 3, 2010 Page 238

"The Savage nodded,rrowning, "You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it."
-Brave New World Page 238
The Savage rails against the society in his arguement with Mustapha Mond. The society got rid of all of it's inconvieniences so that the people would live in happiness. The did away with sickness and insects to ensure peoples happiness. The Savage believes that inconveniences are necessary. He believes this because he was born and raised in a society that praised mental and physical toughness. The inconveniences and hardships made life worth living in the Savages eyes.