Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies.

By: William Golding.

This is a novel about a group of young British boys who are stranded on an island. They decide that the only way for them to live is to uphold a strong democracy. They want order and rules to obey. All of the boys agree and choose a leader. Ralph is chosen because he demonstrates a strong leader and everyone agrees, even Jack who was the other choice for leader of the island.

Jack decides that he and his group is above the law, and they decide to support themselves and leave the group to fend for themselves. Because they have left, disorder and distrust start to occur at the original camp and everything goes wrong. At the beginning of this book, all the boys try to maintain a civilized community but everything soon turns to the worst and all order is abandoned. It has turned for a civilized society to one of complete disorder and even murder of other people.

A huge topic of this book is democracy. Without democracy