How Do Boys Survive On The Island In Lord Of The Flies

Lord of the Flies is a book that takes place in the time of war. However, that is not noticed

because what it really is about is how boys who are trapped in a Island deal with the fact they

have no supervision and have to make things up for themselves. This is a struggle they have

throughout the book, because they can run wild and free and become savages or create order

and have a somewhat civilization like time in the island. The author William Golding combines

the two themes of rules and order and civilization, to show how the boys will survive on the

island.

The boys on the island are all very young. So naturally they have not matured yet and still

had things to learn from society. But given the circumstances they are in they have to use the

knowledge they have from

The boys at this point still know what is civilized and what it not. Here Henry doesn't throw

the rock because he knows that it would be frowned upon back home, so he second guesses it

here. Through the story it was a few things that kept the boys civilized at first. The fact that they

had the conche and whoever had that had the right to speak, Ralph was appointed the leader

because he was the oldest and seemed to know what he was doing more so than the other

boys. The civilization that they create while on the island is flawed and doesn't hold up for long.

This could because they don't know the true meaning of what a civilization is and what goes into

keeping a successful one going, or the fact that they are too young to be able to make

something g so complexed if they don't understand it yet themselves.

A power struggle happens a lot through the book. No one really knows who to listen to

because the boys don't really know what is going to happen to them. Shut up," said Ralph

absently. He lifted the conch. "Seems to me we ought to have a chief to decide things." "A chief!

A chief!" "I ought to be chief," said Jack with simple arrogance, "because I'm chapter