Imagine civilized British people stuck together on an island, they are working hard to get rescued while having normal civilized lives. Now imagine a place where kids are roaming in the wild, how savage can they be? William Golding makes the reader concentrate on the kid's behavior in his book Lord of the Flies to show that even civilized British kids can go wild. While on the island, these kids make countless mistakes that made their civilized society collapse. If the kids wanted their society to work, they should have followed the rules they had established, made a group of leaders instead of one, and focus on getting saved instead of playing around. Society is described as “a system of human organizations … supplying protection, security, and continuity for its members” (American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language). This means that an ideal society should have equality and supply protection for every individual which Ralph and the boys failed to have in their society. Ralph started to set up rules but, “The boys secede from his rule; they destroy the conch; and ultimately, their passions inflamed, they seek even to put him to death” (Splitz) According to Mr. Spilitz, the boys …show more content…
This later affected everyone when they had to decide whether to follow Jack as chief. Jack wanted to be the only one with power because he felt that he was the only one capable of surviving and that he was correct about everything. If the boys had decided that there was going to be a group of leaders instead of one, there would not have been any problems of equal power. Piggy and Simon could have been part of the group because they had valuable character traits that are useful. This statement is backed up when Golding wrote “Only, decided Ralph as he faced the chief seat, I can’t think. Not like Piggy. Once more that evening Ralph had to adjust his values. Piggy could think” (Golding