Thesis

My thesis: William Golding chooses to make the boys elect Ralph as there learned for an indescribable quality or a quality beneath the surface. The reader views this decision as silly because there is no logical or socially acceptable reason for Ralph being the leader.

Textual evidence: Jack started to protest, but the clamor changed from the general wish for a chief to an election by acclaim of Ralph himself. None of the boys could have found a good reason for this; what intelligence had been shown was traceable to Piggy, while the most obvious leader was Jack. But there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size, and attractive appearance, and most obvious yet most powerfully, there was the conch. (page 22)

The context of the textual claim: The above claim was made by our third-person omniscient narrator. The narrator made said this to provide an explanation as to why Ralph was chosen to be the leader.

Explanation:    First, the gist of my thesis is that the boys were set around failing because their actions had no reasoning behind them. This thesis is supported by the above claim because the boys elected Ralph to be the leader, the most important decision that the boys could make, for no logical reason. What I am saying is that, if the boys cannot apply logic and think through their most significant decisions, then we, the reader, can assume that they will not use reason to a simple task. In conclusion, the absence of logic is what, in my opinion, paves the way for the boy's apparent demise.
  

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