Chapter 12 Journal

The soldier at the end of the novel is a huge hypocrite. He scolds the boys for behaving improperly yet he will soon go out and do the same thing to his "Jack" or 'Ralph". When I first read the novel I was infuriated by Jack and how his lust for power had caused on the rifts on the island. However, after time thinking I believe Ralph had just the same amount of blame. He failed to compromise ideologies with Jack and made Jack feel inferior. I don't believe you can group this plot as something as simple as good vs. evil. We have no idea what is evil. Something made Jack feel that way whether it was bad childhood or Ralph diminishing his value. In Jack's eyes Ralph was evil because he didn't allow him to have fun and called something important to him(hunting) as useless. Roger is simply a psychopath and being a psychopath is classified as an illness. Illness makes someone become an exception to evil, as we see in court cases of insane murder cases. We can't comprehend evil. Ralph cries at the end of the novel because he can't understand the horrible things people had done. I don't despise any of the characters except maybe Wilfred because that's a stupid name. Absolutely I would recommend this to a person as long as they would think about what  they are reading.