Lord of the Flies Trial Reflection

During the Lord of the Flies trial, I had some strength and some weaknesses. One of my strengths was that I always understood what they were talking about, so I never was lost. One of my weaknesses was that I had to pretend that I didn’t read the book, even though I did. I had to pretend that I didn’t know what had actually happened on the island, and the facts in the trial were the only things I had heard about it.
During the actual trial, I thought that Jack was guilty for both counts of man-slaughter, but during the deliberation, I started to think that maybe, Jack didn’t have anything to do with Piggy’s death. I strongly thought that it was Jack’s fault that Simon died because he obviously had so much power and control over the group of boys, that if he decided that killing Simon was the wrong thing to do, he could have easily commanded them to stop and they would have followed his orders because they looked up to him. But he didn’t. He made a decision to not command them to stop and otherwise, just kept stabbing at poor Simon. In the end, we found Jack guilty for Simon’s death and we had a hung jury for piggy’s which means we couldn’t all decide on one verdict.
Overall, I think I deserve an A- on this project because I didn’t get to do as many things as say, an attorney did, but when I did do things, I did them to my fullest and out my best effort into them.