Lord of the Flies is a book that takes place in the time of war. However, that is not noticed
because what it really is about is how boys who are trapped in a Island deal with the fact they
have no supervision and have to make things up for themselves. This is a struggle they have
throughout the book, because they can run wild and free and become savages or create order
and have a somewhat civilization like time in the island. The author William Golding combines
the two themes of rules and order and civilization, to show how the boys will survive on the
island.
The boys on the island are all very young. So naturally they have not matured yet and still
had things to learn from society. But given the circumstances they are in they have to use the
knowledge they have from
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The boys at this point still know what is civilized and what it not. Here Henry doesn't throw
the rock because he knows that it would be frowned upon back home, so he second guesses it
here. Through the story it was a few things that kept the boys civilized at first. The fact that they
had the conche and whoever had that had the right to speak, Ralph was appointed the leader
because he was the oldest and seemed to know what he was doing more so than the other
boys. The civilization that they create while on the island is flawed and doesn't hold up for long.
This could because they don't know the true meaning of what a civilization is and what goes into
keeping a successful one going, or the fact that they are too young to be able to make
something g so complexed if they don't understand it yet themselves.
A power struggle happens a lot through the book. No one really knows who to listen to
because the boys don't really know what is going to happen to them. Shut up," said Ralph
absently. He lifted the conch. "Seems to me we ought to have a chief to decide things." "A chief!
A chief!" "I ought to be chief," said Jack with simple arrogance, "because I'm chapter