group resembling a government. As time went on, the country slowly broke

apart internally. Many tribes and terrorist organizations began to take

control of regions and any sort of true government was lost. The Taliban

took control mostly because there was nobody else ruling the country. But,

even with their absurd rules and punishments, they were unable to keep

control and order in the region. Terrorist cells began to call Afghanistan

home in many remote areas of the country, as well as warlords who controlled

regions of the country out of fear of many bad things they were capable of

doing. Just as the country of Afghanistan became disorganized and completely

uncivilized with a lack of proper leadership, all of the boys in Lord of the

Flies become uncivilized in some way. The boys, much like the people in

Afghanistan, lost their sense of civilization when rules and an

authoritative governing body was not in place. In the novel, Lord of the

Flies, William Golding illustrates that when man is away from society he

As the Plot of Lord of The Flies progresses, Golding shows us how humans

will become uncivilized when they become separated from organized society

through the novel's unfolding plot. The boys start off in a very civilized

state, but the events of their stay on the island wears on them, and they

gradually become savage. On the boy's first journey into the woods to

explore the island, they stumble upon a pig on the way back. Jack is unable

to kill this pig due to the gore and his unwillingness to partake in such a

violent action. But, he loses his sense of humanity and civilized ways and

forgets his old fear and rejection of violence. Jack becomes obsessed with

the hunt and the killing of pigs. Later in the novel, Jack takes part in a

brutal murder of a mother sow that is nursing her young at the time. He felt

no sorrow for the sow, but instead feels the rush of the kill like a savage

would do. A short time before he takes part in a brutal beating of a

helpless sow, Jack finds himself unable to kill a pig, even in a humane way.

Jack quickly goes from unable to even stab a large male board into a coward

that kills innocent, unexpecting prey much like a savage beast would do. The

progression of Jack's behavior into an ungoverned savage through the twists

in the novel's plot shows how a man separated from society will become a

savage beast in time. "The sow collapsed under them and they were heavy and

fulfilled with her"(174). The plot also shows what fear will do to the boys.

None of the boys have any fear of being alone or of a creature of some sorts

being on the island when they first arrive, but as their stay on the island

lengthens, some littluns begin to have nightmares and state that they saw a

strange creature that comes out of the sea. The boys slowly become more

savage as the book progresses, and the fear of the beast grows among the

boys as they become increasingly savage. A fear of a completely fictional

being shows how the boys are losing their grip for civilization and drifting

from it. The fear of the beast takes some of the boys as far as joining

Jack's tribe to be protected from the beast, despite that fact that they

will become almost animal like in hunting the beast. Jack's tribe becomes so

savage and uncivilized that their fear of the beast drives them into killing

Simon out of pure fear that he may be the beast. The boys fail to realize

that the figure coming out of the woods is Simon, and not a fictional beast