Some of the events in Lord of the Flies are violent and disturbing - Choose at least two of these events and discuss.

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Some of the events in Lord of the Flies are violent and disturbing. Choose at least two of these events and write about:

* What is violent and disturbing in them

* The importance of these events in the novel

* How the writer makes the events violent and disturbing.

In this novel there are many disturbing and violent events, one of which is when tribe of boys are killing the mother pig. The descriptive images of the pig being killed are very violent, 'Jack was on top of the sow, stabbing downward with his knife'. This is because Jack is deliberately killing the pig and in an unpleasant manner. Not only is it violent but also disturbing. The reason this, is that the boys who are involved in killing the pig are enjoying it and at the site of the blood makes them excited wanting them to do it more. 'Bleeding like mad, the hunters flowed, excited by the long chase and dropped blood'. When the boys finally killed the sow they carried on with the violence by taking a spear and placing it through the pig's backside. The boys found this very funny and