Lord of the Flies

The leading characters in this book are Ralph, Jack and Piggy. The other boys are mentioned often but most of it is about those three boys. Ralph and Jack are both "leaders". That's because they are so "loud", everyone listen to them. Piggy is really different from Ralph and Jack, he is kind, he does what others want him to do, he seems to be quite shy too, but he is also very clever, he has good ideas but it is hard for him to be heard.

The environment where everything happens, is on an island that looks very nice, it’s a paradise palm trees, white sand, coco-nuts, clear ocean water, beautiful starry nights with the sound of the ocean crashing on the beach. "The shore was fledged with palm trees. These stood or leaned or reclined against the light and their green feathers were a hundred feet up in the air. The ground beneath them was a bank covered with coarse grass, torn everywhere by the upheavals of fallen trees, scattered with decaying coco-nuts and palm saplings. Behind this was the darkness of forest proper and the open space of the scar.”

Lord of the Flies is about a group of English schoolboys who are from 6 to 12 years old. They have been set on a fate island somewhere in the south Pacific after a crash. This could have been a dream situation for the boys; no teachers, no parents and no rules that tell them what to do or not do, but the dream situation develops in to a hard society where