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Lord of the Flies is a smashing and daring novel by the late William Golding. It starts out with this kid walking around after a plane he was riding crashed on an island. He runs into a fat kid, and they run into some more kids. They are all on this island without adults. The first kid finds a conch, and the person with the conch is the one that gets to talk. The kids form two different groups, and they all do things on their own. The kids build a fire, and some of them die. At the end of the novel, a guy shows up to rescue them from the fiery depths of hell. This tale shows just what evils are lurking in the depths of the human soul, waiting to surface when there is no force to suppress them. Blair did not write this. He won’t know I put this in here, because he won’t even bother to read it. He is such an idiot. I’m only doing this because he paid me twenty dollars.

As this intriguing novel begins, we find many innocent boys stranded on an island in the middle of nowhere and not killing each other. Some fear their situation, but most realize that they must create some kind of order for them to live by. They pick a young, handsome boy, Ralph, to be their leader. Jack, another boy, shows distaste for this choice, but tries to hide it from the others. Ralph tries to be a good leader, but some of his brilliant plans backfire all over his face. He tells the boys to gather up stuff to burn, so they can build a fire to create smoke for signaling to passing people that they are there. They collect many good fire conductors, and they get the fire started. As luck would have it, their main source for getting firewood ends up catching fire, and a little boy dies in the flames. One of the boys then decides to see a monster. They call it a beastie. At this point, the boys become scared of their surroundings. This fear eventually drives them to animal behavior.

As time moves forward, the boys start to follow Jack instead of Ralph. Jack uses mind tricks, similar to those of Adolf Hitler. The Jack way of living lacks order. The boys obviously see the reason in this, and that is why they love to follow him instead of following Ralph. The Ralph way is boring and lacks any fun. No one wants to live in that sort of society. These kids know what is going on. As they continue to not follow any rules and have fun, they become more paranoid of their surroundings. Now, you’ve got all these kids, none of which want to go back to the old ways of life, and they all want sun chips. Everyone knows it is no fun at all to put peroxide on a flesh wound. If the wound is left untreated, it becomes infected and ends up killing some children. It is the same situation we see here. It is bad enough that these kids have been for years bombarded by violent movies and video games. Now they have to deal with not having anyone around to teach them what is right and wrong. These kids are all still in that stage of life, the stage where they still lie about who threw the ball at who and who ate the all the staples. This is the part where they need to have the adults there to teach them which of these things are wrong and unacceptable. Without that leadership, it is no surprise that they would completely steer their boat in the wrong direction. We are getting a little off subject in this paragraph. I apologize. Maybe I will be able to rearrange these thoughts later on. All the kids start playing in the water or somewhere else, some run around naked, and they all love to run around and kill things. As all of this is going on, the fear of the beastie grows larger and larger. What started out as something the kids did not take seriously has turned into something they all start to suspect and fear.

By the final week of their stay on the island, the boys have reached their darkest peak. With Jack in charge of the entire group, the . All of the boys run around with their faces painted with blood. The boys kill their good friend, Simon, because they think he is the beastie they have feared for so long. They are so full of fear that they all jump on him and can not even tell that the one they are killing is nothing beast-like. They just pounce on him without giving the situation a second glance. After they assess the situation and realize what they have done, they all decided to rededicate their lives to the lord, Jesus Christ. I made that last part up.

With one of their peers out of the way, they decide to kill Piggy as well. While trying to move a rock, Jack misjudges the path it would take, and it ends up falling right on poor little Piggy’s head. At this point, their behavior can no longer grow any worse. Too many have died, and still they continue to live like animals. It would take many years and many generations to finally create a practical-functioning society like the one from which they came. Luckily, before any more children could die, some men in a helicopter crash-landed and saved them.

The boys had a good experience living on their own on the island. They picked up a great many things they would never have even begun to see as people who did not do that stuff? Golding did a terrific job of showing the true roots of human nature. People tend to look at a peaceful society as the natural way for people to behave. If someone behaves differently, it makes them a bad person. In reality it is the other way around. Non-peaceful people are very good at being what they are. The people who find ways to release anger besides killing other people are only wearing masks. In the real world, killing is the way of life. Live to kill and be killed. Societies that deny this are in denial of what makes them societies from the get-go.