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 a society cannot function together and disorder will result. This novel showed people who went form having order in their lives, so being stripped of it. It shows the rapid descent from sanity, to chaos.

This book had some very political roots, and showed that people need to have the support of others to be a complete and happy society. I think that even though this book was written in a very simplistic way, it has some very deep meanings and was very well written. I really enjoyed that Golding was able to become a little boy through out this book. He truly understood the characters and he sold them to us very easily. They were very believable and I enjoyed reading about their struggles.