When civilized boys get stuck on a deserted island with no parents, they soon become savages. In William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies, a group of young boys are stranded on a deserted island and gradually become savages and lose all civilization. The Penguin Group publishers think that the manuscript for Lord of the Flies is too long and that scenes that are not important to the theme need to be cut. Overall, the scenes with Jack putting on the mask, Simon dying and Piggy being killed are crucial to understanding the way the boys progressed into becoming killers and savages.
There are many parts in this novel that are important to the meaning of the overall novel such as, when Jack starts to become a savage, when the boys kill simon, and when Roger becomes so ruthless that he kills Piggy. In the beginning when Jack is hunting
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Beside the pool his sinewy body held up a mask that drew their eyes and appalled them. He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling”(Golding, 1954, p. 32). Jack went wild and only cared about killing the pigs and hunting, which ended up impacting the theme because by the end everyone turned into killers and savages. Throughout the whole book there is talk about a beast and the boys freight and savageness of this beast end up killing Simon. “The beast struggled forward, broke the ring, and fell over the steep edge of the rock to the sand by the water. At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt onto the beast, screamed struck, bit, tore.” (Golding, 1954, p. 153). They were scared and instead of running or investigating they killed the masked man. This related to the theme because only true savages would kill someone without investigation. Finally in the end, Piggy is the only voice of reason left and when he tries to reason with the boys he pays the price. “The rock struck