Prompt #4

I’m relating this book, “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, to the movie “Castaway”. In the first chapter of this book I’ve learned that a plane carrying a group of boys crashed over the ocean, and the boys became stranded on an island with no civilization. The story line of “Castaway” is similar, a plane crashes over the ocean and a man is stranded on an island all by himself. In both cases the main character(s) have to learn how to adapt and survive in their new environment. For example, in “Lord of the Flies”, when Jack couldn't get himself to kill the pig, he thought to himself, “Next time there would be no mercy” (Golding 31). This shows how they are learning how to adapt to their new environment because they have to learn how to kill animals in order to be able to get their own food. They are both completely isolated from the outside world and have to make do with what they have. There are differences however, such as the fact that in “LOTF” there is a group of boys, and in “Castaway” there is only one man all by himself. The concept faced of being desperate for food brings to mind the issues that less privileged people have to face, because some things that seem so easy to get for us may be a struggle to get for some other people.