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Final Opinion On Inherent Goodness .

Now that I have finished the novel I still believe that people are neither inherently good or inherently bad . It all comes with influence . And I'm sticking to that opinion .

Some of the boys in the novel were good because they young . They hadn't been influenced by anyone yet . They hadn't lived long enough . Jack and Roger weren't destined to be evil . The saying , "Everything happens for a reason ," comes into play here . They became evil because they landed on the island . They were snobby before , but not completely evil . They were mean and eventually , I think , it would have gotten worse with age .

I believe Piggy was meant to be good . I think his asthma comes into play . He can't really do anything because of his asthma . In the book he's always talking about his aunt so I think that he really cares about his family and he wouldn't do anything to make them mad at him .

I believe I am half and half because of influence . I'm half good because of my best friends and my family . They're the reason why I do good in school and I don't get in trouble all the time . I'm half bad because of my friends that I hang around . I like to hang around some trouble makers that I call my friends because they're not scared to do anything . They don't care what people think either . So I have enough good in me not to be fully bad .

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I think that there is no such thing as inherent goodness. You evolve as a person. People change into beings that they were not originally. It is a natural occurrence. Since I do not believe in inherent goodness, I do not think the boys from the novel were inherently good. Many of the boys changed from civilized individuals into savage hunters. They were not inherently good. Only a few of them on the island continued to maintain some of their sanity. It was a challenge that they struggled with throughout the novel. I believe that Jack was meant to be evil, but maybe not Roger. Jack seemed to always be very power hungry, which will normally get to people. It seems that no matter where he was, he would have ended up turning into what he became on the island. However, Roger does not strike me as that. It seems that he evolove into the murderer that he was in the novel. I do think that it was his environment that caused him to make that change. Piggy is a true rule follower. He was always meant to be good, in my eyes. He didn't do things that he thought he shouldn't. He also tryed to get others to do the same. He is one of the few exceptions to staying good. I am definitely not an example of inherent goodness. I have changed my personality a couple of times in my life based on personal experience. There have been time when I was the nicest person to everyone, and were times in my life when I did not get along with anyone. The phrase "inherent goodness" to me is an inaccurate term. It is not presented in most people. It is an ideal image of humans.

Goood

I still to this day beleive that people are born with a bad heart. Im not saying everybody is born to kill but everyone is born with a bad heart. But once you learn the meaning of right and wrong you change. You can change for the good or for the bad. The boys in the novel were born with bad hearts but not born as killers. There is huge difference. Lots of people change for the good and turn their heart good and start to do good. But some people unfortunately stay bad and do bad things. Jack and Roger were not born to be evil. But through the situations they were put and the roles they took on, they formed a mean heart and started to do bad things. I highly doubt they were evil their whole life. But they turned out bad. Everyone has a choice and they made the wrong one. I also beleive Piggy has bad thoughts like everyone else. Piggy is a great person and corrects those thoughts with good actions. Im not saying he was born to be good but he has been good through out his life. Through good decisions. I think everyone is born bad but not evil. Its your own choice wheather you stay that way. You arent forced to do stupid things no matter what your doing. I was born bad like everyone else but i have made good decisions and tryed my best to do good. This was a great novel. And provided many good topics to discuss.

Goodness

Are People Inherently good? Well Lets see it depends on who it is and around what thing they are raised in. Everyone is born good no one can be bad because they dont know what bad things are. The things that make them bad may be the way they are raised and the enviroment that they are rasied. People influence them to change so thats how people are introduced to the bad side of the world. Also by the people who they are around because they get influenced too. Another thing is that people turn bad because other people do it and they thing its cool and if you dont do it your a whimp. Thats what some of them take it as. SO people dont want to be called whimps so they do. I think that if it wasnt for the plane crash roger and Jack would be good students because they went to a nun school. Well it doesnt mean that everyone who goes to a church school is good but the majority is. They where never meant to be bad, but the fact that there is no teachers or parents stops it from not happening. Nobody could tell them what not to do so they would never learn from their mistakes. THey got over obessed with hunting and they were not just doing it for the meat they where doing it for fun. So they wanted to settle everything with killing. so later in their ;lives they will settle evrything with killing. Piggy was always to meant to be good because just by the way he is. Because everyone picks on him but he dont care he just ignores it his most likly the one to succed in life

inherently good

I think that nobody is born to be good. Not everybody is inherently good either. The only people that are inherently good are people that have parents that care and teach them to be good. For example Oprah was not born good. She just cared about her life and turned into a good person. I do not think that the boys in the novel were inherently good. I think this because nobody is inherently good. I think that Ralph and piggy where good people but not born to be good. If it was not for Jack and his obssession for hunting then nobody would have been killed. I do not think that piggy was ment to be good either. I think that Piggy just cared about what he did and understood the consequences of the outcome. So nobody is meant to be good. I do not think that I am inherently good either. Again, nobody is inherently good. I think that if people care about what they turn out to be later in thier life then they will be a good person. I do care about what I turn out to be later on in my life. So I think that I will turn out to be a somewhat good person. But nobody is going to be born into a good person. I do not think that Roger and Jack was destined to be evil. I think that the lust for killing was overwhelming to them. They were not always meant to be evil. Nobody is born into being evil or good. I think that there is no such thing as inherent goodness. Just people who care and make the right choices decide whether or not they will be a good person or not. So in the end it is you who makes the choice whethere or not to be good of bad.

Inherent Goodness Final.

Again, people are not inherently good or bad. We're not born good nor bad. It's something that you learn whether you know it or not. It could also be through an event you experienced.

In the novel, the boys were not inherently good. They killed because, the obvious reason, they had to survive. They needed to kill in order to get meat. When they killed Simon that was an accident. They were so into the chant. Further more, before they were on the island there was a war(World War II) going on where they lived. So that could've impacted their decisions.

Jack and Rodger are not destined to be evil. If they had never landed on the island they would not be evil. They wouldn't have anyone to really kill, because the plane wouldn't have crashed and they would have evacuated safely.

I think Piggy is good because his auntie raised him right, which means he learned right from wrong. This goes back to my point that goodness is learned.

I am not inherently good. I know this, because I was taught right from wrong when I was younger. I have also seen people do bad things and I knew the consequences, so that processed through my brain that I don't want to do those things.