Most Important Take-Away From Lord Of The Flies By William Golding

The most important take-away from Lord of the Flies I think was how the war going on in the book and how the boys are acting to each other on the island ties into the crumbling society as a whole in their universe. The way golding sprinkles little cues and foreshadows life outside the island sounds as chaotic as what the boys are getting up to in their own world. These two “worlds” are representing a growing and ongoing beast with immense power and nothing really detaining, and it's shown in different ways through everyone, even outside of the island. Going along with this the immense power gained through certain people and their actions and how this is an important message to present in our own society. How the wrong actions can have the wrong

We have rules and punishments for if those rules are broken. Some other places' rules and regulations could be tighter or looser because it's up to the ruler's authority and what they think is how a society should be regulated. But society gets thrown off like for example the war going on in the book. The war described in the book is what I imagined to be an apocalyptic one because there seems to be not much order. Like piggy mentioned in chapter one.
" Didn't you hear about what the pilot said? About the atom bomb?" And he also mentioned in the same chapter they were attacked after realizing there were no grownups anywhere on the island they crashed

It's a lot but when explained it makes more sense. When Jack overthrows Ralph to be leader the society Jack leads really resembles past war dictators and what we can connect from our world. The book was published in 1954 right after WW2 ended. Golding took a lot of inspiration from that war in this book and it really shows through the power Golding gave Jack and how he developed him through the story. In the Beginning he has this power, he wields a knife but doesn't kill, at