An Island Filled with Chaos This title is true, and island full of chaos. This is how I feel towards William Golding’s book “Lord of the Flies.” This group of boys, have a mixture of irrational feelings, some are too young to fathom the fact that their fate might be incased on this island. The older boys are wild and hard to train how to use survival skills and just want to have fun and swim until they are rescued, and the two “leaders,” are far too ego driven to be actual leaders. The oldest boy is only twelve years old, far too young to be in charge of other children. All of these facts will only lead to destruction or even death. As sad as it sounds, it is the horrible reality. If they do not get rescued soon, the only way they will go is down, they will indeed live in chaos. …show more content…
He is the only one who cares about these important elements for being rescued. “Don’t you all want to be rescued?” “I said before, the fire is the main things. Now the fire must be out.” Ralph says, in Golding’s book “Lord of the Flies” (pg 102). He wants to be rescued, but the rest of the children cannot be trained how to do so, they are too young, too careless. They will never be rescued at this rate. Without some sort of signal, none of them will get rescued, and thus far, it seems almost impossible to teach the others this face. For a twelve-year-old little boy, he speaks a lot of truth at times. Such as (pg. 81) in “Lord of the Flies,” Ralph states, “You hunters! You can laugh! But I tell you the smoke is more important than the pig, however often you kill one. Do all of you see? We’ve got to make smoke up there—or die.” Too much certainty from such a young