Survive Alone In Lord Of The Flies

In the book "The Lord of the Flies'' by William Golding, a reader witnesses children trying to survive alone without adults. It is a book where a group of young boys survive a plane wreck, and are forced to learn how to live on the island and work together without any supplies, food, and adult supervision. The boys face many difficult challenges, and have to figure out how to handle them. The boys begin as strangers and try to form a society to work together and survive on the remote island. However, some things that occurred could have been handled differently as a society in The Lord of the Flies. In the beginning, the boys start off with a good plan. They agree that they can't all be talking at the same time, so they grab a conch shell and

The boys start off by acting responsible and well behaved. While these were good intentions, it doesn’t go the way some would think. After they came up with this strategy, they wanted to have a meeting about how they are going to get rescued and survive on the island. They first decided that one of them should be a chief,”“Let's have a vote,”"yes!” “vote for chief!” (Golding19) This helps so someone can keep everyone in line and make plans. They ultimately decide to pick Ralph because he has bravery, fairness and a sense of justice with strong leadership qualities. So Ralph decides to come up with a couple of ideas as he says “The choir belongs to you, of course, they could be the army or hunters they could be hunters” (Golding 20). Everything goes well as they decide to vote Ralph as chief so someone can be in charge of everything, and assign hunters. This was a good idea because Ralph decided to assign roles to everyone, so everyone had a job and a purpose. Making sure everyone is in check, helps to increase the chance of being saved. Some of these things were good, but other things that occurred on the island could have been handled