When you look at someone do you look and see a good kid? Do you ever really notice that they are savage on the inside. In the lord of the flies it shows that The children’s efforts to build an orderly society through a rules-based government falls apart. A basic theme of the novel is that human beings are basically violent and savage, which makes civic order impossible to sustain.the boys acting different because there are no rules/civic order.the boys were so obsessed with killing a pig it made them more savage.they really weren't doing anything they were messing around and never took anything seriously there is no way they would be able to stay non-savage and they didn’t. One important reason that the children’s efforts to build an orderly