Bozzo- Convo.

This conversation is about the nature of people with Ralph from Lord of the flies


George: Hey Ralph. How you doing? Come take a seat

(Ralph grabs a chair next to George at the table he’s sitting down at)

Ralph: I’m doing just fine, what is going on with you?

George: Ah swell…you know I was just thinking…do you ever notice the nature of people…how it changes in certain situations?

Ralph: You bet I do, I’ve seen it all…I’ve seen everything after being on that island.

George: I feel like you were too young to even understand it at the time.

Ralph: I may have been young, but I could see change in everyone, change from rational to survival.

George: What do you mean by changing to survival?

Ralph: I mean everybody on that island, as the days started to grow, their attitudes toward everything changed and one person who helped influence it was Jack. All the boys stopped working as a team and started worrying about themselves and what was the best for them.
George: What would you expect them to do though if they are all alone with out parents or family; you cant expect them to always make the right decisions when your that young.
Ralph: Regardless of our age at the time you think people would know morally what is the right thing to do and the right thing was to all work together and watch out each other as a team; and we failed at that aspect.

George: You know you can’t sit there and blame those boys for acting different in the situation. You had the same problem as well when you told me how you reacted when you went pig hunting with Jack; you’re the same as them all.

Ralph(hesitant, slightly angry): I lost my head for one minute! But I came back down and I realized wrong from right…most of those boys didn’t.

George: It shouldn’t matter if you lost it for an hour or a second! You can’t judge them for a lapse in a time of trial.

Ralph: Well what about you. You lived in a time of depression and everyone was turning their back on everyone to make money or to survive, but you didn’t. You watched over Lennie even when he caused you trouble.

George(saddened at the memory of Lennie):….No, I’m just like the rest of those boys at the end. I only thought about how much trouble he caused me all the time. How I would be better off without him; how he was a nuisance and never could do anything right. For a while with him I thought we would actually get a farm and work on it together; I let myself think that and then he goes off and kills Curley’s wife. It brought me back down from my stupid dreams of a farm and being different from other migrant workers.

Ralph: Then you killed him. Was it for his own good? The right thing you thought at the time?

George: No…I killed him because I thought it would give me hope that if he was gone I would still have a chance at being different from the rest and having the life I wanted, but after I did it, I was ashamed at my decision and my selfishness that I lost all hope again.

Ralph: So what are you saying about the nature of people?

George(breathes in and out slowly): That when it comes down to the wire where your in trouble and your trying to survive or go after something. People’s true colors come out and you just realize that it does in everyone. Everyone is a selfish bastard; and that’s the real nature of people.