William Golding’s classic novel The Lord of the Flies is a novel about a group of English schoolboys who were in a plane-wreck and left stranded on a deserted island. The island starts as a utopia but soon turns to chaos. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, hunt, make shelters, and keep their firing burning to signal for help. The leader of all the stranded boys was Ralph also known …showed first 75 words of 280 total…

…showed last 75 words of 280 total…were Jack was the leader. Most of the boys left, only Eric, Sam, Piggy, and some of the littluns (boys from the age 4-6) stayed with Ralph. The situation slowly started to grow worse as civilization continued to fall away. Ralph had then discovered that instead of being the hunter, he had become the hunted. This gasping novel explores the boundary between human and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition.