Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies

Summary:

During a war in Europe, a plane that is evacuating a bunch of kids from school crashes over an island. The boys that survived the crash begin to search the island that they have landed on, while two of them, Piggy and Ralph find a conch shell and they begin to use it as a signal to find other boys that are on the island. After they find everyone that is still alive, they begin to establish a government type of system, they vote that Ralph should be their leader and then Ralph appoints Jack as the person in charge of getting food. They begin to enjoy themselves while stranded on the island and Jack becomes obsessed with hunting, but soon they begin to believe there is a monster on or around the island when the youngest boy says he has been having nightmares about a monster ever since they have been on the island. That night when they are sleeping a dogfight is happening in the air above the island they are on and a pilot parachutes out dead and lands on one of the mountaintops. When Sam and Eric wakeup they see the parachute and they run in fear thinking it is the monster, when they get back to the camp they tell everyone that the monster tried to attack them. Ralph and Jack begin to organize a search of the island to find the monster, but they end up the only ones going and when they see the silhouette of the parachute, they hold a meeting in which Jack puts up a vote that Ralph should not be their leader anymore but the entire group vote against it. Simon travels to where the parachute is and discovers it is just a dead pilot and when he goes down to the beach to tell Ralph and Jack, who is a rival of Jack, but when Simon appears, he frightens the rest of the boys and they kill him. The next day Jack’s and Ralph’s groups get into a large fight in which one of the boys rolls a boulder down the mountain killing Piggy. Ralph hides in the forest for a while but soon Jack’s group burns down the forest trying to find Ralph so they can kill him, the fire forces Ralph onto the beach where he meets a naval officer whose ship saw the burning island.

Approach #1: Biographical

The author, William Golding, was born in England. After World War II started, he joined the Navy. These things most likely influenced why the boys