Lord of the Flies

Lord of The Flies was written in 1954 by William Golding. It is about a group of young boys from Britain whose plane crashes on a deserted tropical island. Two of the boys, Ralph, and Piggy, discover a conch shell on the beach. Piggy thinks it could be used as a horn to bring the other boys to a meeting. Once they are all together, the boys decide to elect a leader and think of a way to be rescued. They choose Ralph as their leader, and Ralph chooses Jack to be in charge of the boys who will hunt food for the entire group. Ralph, Jack, and Simon, set off to explore the island.

When they get back, Ralph decides that they need to make a signal fire to get the attention of passing ships. The boys light some dead wood by using sunlight through the lenses of Piggy’s glasses. The boys start playing and they don’t watch the fire, and the fire goes out. At first, the boys like the island and spend a lot of time splashing in the water and playing games. Ralph tells them that they should be keeping the signal fire up and building huts for shelter. The hunters fail in their tries to catch a wild pig. Jack becomes obsessed with the act of hunting.

After a while on the island some of the little kids tell stories of a creature or a monster that lives on the island so some of the boys get a hunting group to search for the monster. Some of the boys get angry at Ralph so Jack breaks off and forms a new tribe. Jack makes himself the leader of the new tribe and organizes a hunt and a slaughter of a sow to celebrate the occasion. The hunters then cut the head off of the sow and put its head on a sharp stake in the jungle as an offering to the beast.