LOTF Intro Paragraph Alone. Hungry. Desperate. These boys will do anything to survive, even if it means resorting back to mans’ primitive, cruel, and selfish ways. After all, materials don’t just fall from the sky on a deserted island. In the novel, “The Lord of the Flies,” by William Golding, the many symbols and characteristics represented by the group will all change starting with a boy named Roger who represents pure evilness, to the deserted island that the boys fall upon which unfolds one of the most famous biblical stories, The Garden of Eden. But unlike other stories, in this book evil does conquer good and this villains name is “The Beast,” who terrorizes all and slowly eats away at all of the boys sanity and replaces it with savagery.