In the television series Lost, writer J.J. Abrams adapts the original Lord of the Flies plot by providing realistic diversity among the characters, giving them different priorities, and revising the technology used to reflect the changes in society. Firstly, J.J. Abrams provides realistic diversity among the characters by making most of them adults, and by having a medley of races and genders. By doing this, Abrams gives the viewers of Lost a more realistic situation to follow. It is much more likely for men and women from different places to be on a flight for travel or business, than it is for a group of young, English boys to be, in a modern situation. J.J. Abrams adapts the characters in Lost to capture the changes that would take …show more content…
Later in the “Pilot,” the pilot tries testing out the transceiver, but cannot get a signal from it, as is the same with the other characters’ cell phones. By revising the technology used, Abrams gives the viewers of the Lord of the Flies adaptation Lost, a story that they can follow along with, and understand the changes in technology that have been made to compose a more modern television show. Lastly, by giving his characters more important priorities, different from those that William Golding has given to the boys in Lord of the Flies, J.J. Abrams revises and modernizes the plot of Lost. One of the first things the adults determine is how many people are on the island and have survived the plane crash. The boys in Lord of the Flies, however, do not undertake this procedure, resulting in the loss and certain deaths of some of the younger boys. Again, while the adults focus on exploring to find their crashed plane and see if they can transmit a signal, the young boys in Lord of the Flies celebrate their freedom, and do not even think of ways they could get off the island until later on in the story. Abrams gives viewers a chance to see how if this scenario were to really occur, adults would probably make more intelligent decisions that would contribute to them