This novel takes place on a boat like shaped island. There is a jungle, beach, and a lagoon. There are pigs and fish that they can eat, and different fruits.

This novel is about several young boys trying to survive on this island after their plane crashed. They have to work together in order to survive. There aren't any grown ups around. Ralph and Piggy are the first to appear after the crash. Ralph finds a conch shell and blows into it hoping to get the attention of the other survivors. When they get around in a circle, they elect Ralph as the chief. Jack gets upset and this begins the conflict between Jack and Ralph. Jack decides that he and his choir, now called "hunters" want to go out and hunt for food. On his first attempt, he fails. One of the boys mentions that there is a beast on the island. Nobody paid too much attention to him, but in the back of their minds they knew there had to be something

Now only Ralph, Piggy and the twins remain together. The fight for leadership reaches a climax when Jack turns violent. The hunters stole Piggy's glasses, broke the conch, stole the twins and Roger ends up killing Piggy by throwing a boulder at him over the edge. Jack wanted to kill Ralph then, but Ralph ran into the woods to hide. Jack set the island on fire to try to smoke Ralph out. When Ralph was running away from the smoke, he ran into a naval officer who had seen the smoke and came to rescue them. He thought that the boys were just playing games, but he really didn't know how much the boys had gone through while they were on that island.

Ralph and Jack is one. Ralph represents order and composure in society. Jack grew tired of Ralph being in charge. He went into a rampage, destroying everything the boys worked so hard for to create.

Piggy is short, overweight, has asthma, and wears glasses. He tries his best to keep peace. His glasses are very important because they are used over and over again to start fires.

There are actually many different themes in this book. William Golding says that "the theme (of the book) is an attempt to trace back the decects of society to the defects of human nature. The moral is that the shape of society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system."

Another conflict is Boys Vs. Nature. The boys went hunting many times to keep themselves alive. At first they were scared to kill, by the end of the book, they weren't afraid to kill but wanted to kill.

One of the most basic and obvious themes is that society holds everyone together, and with out these conditions, our ideals, values, and the basics of right and wrong are lost.

The type of chronology used is progressive. Each chapter leads into the other chapter and you learn more about each character, as you get further into the book. If you took out any of the chapters t

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Approximate Word count = 1310
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)