At the beginning we meet Ralph and Piggy coming out of the jungle, later we come across the other boys in the story after Ralph blows the conch to attract the attention of any other survivors. The survivors include several small boys, the twins Sam 'n' Eric and the choir, which includes the characters Jack, Simon and Roger. Ralph is chosen for chief at the beginning over Jack, this clearly upsets Jack but he does not mention it to anybody straight away. As chief Ralph's job is to lay down the rules and try to organize a society. Ralph sensibly gets everyone to start constructing huts, collecting food and building a fire signal.

Right at the beginning where the plane crashed there is a " Long scar smashed into the jungle." Golding does not describe the scar in great detail

Jack is placed in charge of the choir who become the hunters. When Jack first encounters a pig, the civilised world from which he has come restrains him from killing the pig but as they become more desperate they manage to kill a pig.

but the image of "broken trunks," with " jagged edges," gives us the idea of the destruction caused to the island. I think that the scar symbolically represents the destruction that man is naturally capable of inflicting and this can be directly linked with the pain and suffering they inflict on each other later on, including the death of Simon, Piggy and the boy with the mark on his face.

Now this officer has saved the boys from the island and will take them back to civilisation, what the boys have been doing is just a scaled down version of what the officer has come from and you have to ask yourself is he any better than them? And what if he and his cruiser were to get in trouble who would rescue them?

"Softly, surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures,

I think that Golding is right that there is evil inside each and every one of us but this evil is in different quantities for each person. People's dark sides will come out under certain circumstances and I actually believe that Ralph would not have behaved as responsibly for as long in the real world.

It is only at the very end of their adventure that Ralph realises just how important Piggy was to him.

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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)