LOTF Blog

1. Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death Andre Gide. This is very true, and you can find it in the book with how the kids treat Simon. The kids hint at Simon that he is unwanted and that no one likes him. The reason why the do not like him is because Simon speaks the truth and the kids cannot handle to truth, so they disown Simon.  In society when you here about bad people dying for some reason it just proves that society knows exactly when to kill someone.
2. If we can't separate our civilized self from our savage self which will take over and why? Our savage self will all most always take over our civilized self. The reason behind this is found in all most any animal. If you let a tame domestic pig out into the wild on its own it turns back into a wild animal sometimes the pigs will even grow its tusk back, that were cut out at one point. The reason that our savage self kicks in is because we start to think that getting food is our only priority which makes us turn savage. 
3. How is a civilization created? Are people controlled by society or is society controlled by people? Civilization was created when the first people released that they could not survive own their own they needed people all around them to make sure that everyone lives so everyone decide to move into a “community”. In my honest opinion I believe that people are controlled by society, but it should be the other way around. The reason people are controlled by society is because of media everything people see on TV, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and even Snapchat controls how people live, but it needs to be the other way around the people need to be in control.
4. He is talking about why all the other kids think Simon is weird and the other kids would think it is weird that Simon is talking to a pig’s head and how Simon talks about the beast the kids thinks it is weird.